Diamond Pro89 Beef, Pork & Ancient Grains Formula for Adult Dogs Dry Dog Food
The first five ingredients are Beef, Pork, Beef Meal, Grain Sorghum, Whole Grain Brown Rice. 3 of them are a named animal protein. We put the starch at 35.3%, below the 38.51% average across the foods we hold.
It does well on most of the five things we measure, with nothing that stands out as a concern.
How we got to 75
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 3.2 points below average, so proportionally less 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 35 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.
Beef, Pork, Beef Meal, Grain Sorghum, Whole Grain Brown Rice, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Millet, Fish Meal, Dried Beet Pulp, Natural Flavor, Flaxseed, Quinoa, Chia Seed, 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., DL-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, L-Carnitine, Dried Lactobacillus Plantarum Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium Animalis Fermentation Product, Vitamin E Supplement, Chondroitin Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Thiamine Mononitrate, Manganese Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid. Contains A Source Of Live (Viable), Naturally Occurring Microorganisms
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.
Beef
The clean flesh of cattle, used fresh. Like all fresh meats it is mostly water before cooking.
Pork
The clean flesh of the pig, used fresh.
Beef Meal
Beef that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Grain Sorghum
The grain of the sorghum plant, a gluten-free cereal also known as milo.
Whole Grain Brown Rice
Brown rice kept whole, with the bran and germ intact rather than milled away as they are in white rice.
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 Diamond and the archive average.
| Metric | This recipe | Diamond Care Sensitive Skin Formula… | Archive average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Score | 75 | 44 | -- |
| Protein, water out | 33.3% | 24.4% | -- |
| Starch, water out | 35.3% | 50.6% | 38.51% |
| Named in first five | 3 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 Diamond. We check the feed daily and this page updates when that changes.
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