Blue Seal Native Puppy Chicken Meal & Rice Formula Dry Dog Food
The first five ingredients are Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Ground Barley, Chicken Fat (Mixed Tocopherols Preservative), Brown Rice. 2 of them are a named animal protein. We put the starch at 41.1%, above the 38.51% average across the foods we hold.
Nothing alarming here, but a few of the figures sit below what we see across the archive.
How we got to 59
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.
That is 2.6 points above average, so proportionally more of the bag is starch.
Everything on the label
Printed exactly as the manufacturer lists it, heaviest ingredient first. A dog food needs very little salt, so the 32 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.
Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Ground Barley, Chicken Fat (Mixed Tocopherols Preservative), Brown Rice, Ground Flaxseed, Rice Bran (stabilized), Plain Dried Beet Pulp, Dried Egg, Natural Flavor, Fish Meal, Brewer’s Liquid Yeast, Yeast Culture, Monocalcium Phosphate, 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., Calcium Carbonate, Yeast Extract, Choline Chloride, Dried Algae, Vitamin E Supplement, DL-Methionine, Biotin, Reed-Sedge Peat, L-Lysine, Zinc Sulfate, Taurine, Selenium Yeast, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Zinc Proteinate, Managanese Sulfate, Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Niacin Supplement, Calcium d-Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Rosemary Extract, Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, Mixed Tocopherols & Citric Acid (preservatives)
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.
Chicken Meal
Chicken that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal, with most of the water and fat removed.
Brewers Rice
The small fragments of rice kernel separated out during milling, a by-product of producing whole white rice.
Barley
The grain of the barley plant, one of the older cultivated cereals.
Brown Rice
Rice with only the inedible outer hull removed, so the bran and germ stay on the grain.
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 Native and the archive average.
| Metric | This recipe | Blue Seal Native Level 1… | Archive average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Score | 59 | 54 | -- |
| Protein, water out | 31.1% | 26.7% | -- |
| Starch, water out | 41.1% | 46.7% | 38.51% |
| Named in first five | 2 of 5 | 1 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 Native. We check the feed daily and this page updates when that changes.
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