AvoDerm Advanced Sensitive Support Grain-Free Duck Formula Dry Dog Food
The first five ingredients are Duck, Duck Meal, Garbanzo Beans, Peas, Pea Flour. 2 of them are a named animal protein. We put the starch at 38.3%, below the 38.51% average across the foods we hold.
Reasonable protein and a fairly typical starch load. Comfortably mid-range for a dry food.
How we got to 64
Five things, one hundred points, and the reason for every one. We would rather show our working than ask you to trust a number.
26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.
Estimated, 6% ash assumed.
Count of named animal proteins.
Matched against the flag list.
Manufacturer, not recipe.
The numbers, without the water
Percentages on a bag include the water in the food, so a wet food always looks lower than a dry one. Taking the water out puts any two foods on the same footing. This one is 90% dry matter.
This lands right about average for the foods we hold.
Everything on the label
Printed exactly as the manufacturer lists it, heaviest ingredient first. A dog food needs very little salt, so the 14 ingredients listed after salt are present in even smaller amounts. That is the salt divider, and it is why we only weigh the top of the list.
Duck, Duck Meal, Garbanzo Beans, Peas, Pea Flour, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Dried Tomato Pomace, Avocado, Alfalfa Meal, Natural Flavor, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Flax Seed (Source of Omega 3), Dried Chicory Root, Potassium Chloride, Salt*The Salt Divider. Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after this point is present in an even smaller amount., Kelp Meal, Avocado Oil, Vitamins (Choline Chloride, a-Tocopherol Acetate (Source of Vitamin E), L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (Source of Vitamin C), Niacin, Biotin, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Source of Vitamin B6), Thiamine Mononitrate (Source of Vitamin B1), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), Taurine, Minerals (Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Selenium Yeast, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Calcium Iodate), Yucca Shidigera Extract, Rosemary Extract, Sage Extract, Pineapple Stem, Papaya Extract, Dehydrated Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Lactobacillus Casei Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Bifidobacterium Thermophilum Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product
What those first ingredients actually are
The top of the list is most of the food by weight, so it is worth knowing what each one is. Green marks a named animal protein.
Duck
The clean flesh of the duck, with or without skin, used fresh.
Duck Meal
Duck that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Garbanzo Beans
The seed of the chickpea plant, the same legume sold under the name chickpea.
Peas
The seed of the pea plant, used whole, split or dried as a carbohydrate and plant protein source.
Pea Flour
Flour milled from dried peas, carrying both the protein and the starch of the whole pea.
How much of this to feed
A starting point, worked out from the resting energy formula vets use and this food's own calorie density. Every dog is different, so watch their weight and adjust. Your vet's advice beats a calculator.
How it compares
Same figures, same method, put next to another recipe from AvoDerm and the archive average.
| Metric | This recipe | AvoDerm Original Lamb Meal &… | Archive average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Score | 64 | 49 | -- |
| Protein, water out | 28.9% | 23.3% | -- |
| Starch, water out | 38.3% | 52.2% | 38.51% |
| Named in first five | 2 of 5 | 2 of 5 | -- |
Recall history
Recalls are matched to the manufacturer, not this exact recipe. A recall on a different product still tells you something about the plant it came from.
We have not matched any FDA recall to AvoDerm. We check the feed daily and this page updates when that changes.
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