Evanger’s Super Premium Game Bird Recipe with Coconut Oil Dry Dog Food
The first five ingredients are Duck Meal, Turkey Meal, Dried Sweet Potatoes, Whole Green Lentils, Brown Rice. 2 of them are a named animal protein. We put the starch at 47.2%, 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 8.7 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 38 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 Meal, Turkey Meal, Dried Sweet Potatoes, Whole Green Lentils, Brown Rice, Duck Fat (Preserved Naturally with Mixed Tocopherols), Pearled Barley, Natural Flavors, Monocalcium Phosphate, Coconut Oil, Dried Kale, Dried Spinach, Dried Carrots, Dried Kelp Meal, 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., Choline Chloride, Dried Blueberries, Dried Cranberries, Turmeric, Dried Chicory Root, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Yeast Culture, Lactosacc™ Probiotics: Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Aspergillus Niger Fermentation Extract, Dried Trichoderma Longibrachiatum Fermentation Extract, Dried Bacillus Subtilus Fermentation Extract, Taurine, Hydrolyzed Yeast (Actigen™ - Prebiotic), L-Carnitine, Lecithin, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Calcium Carbonate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Methionine Complex, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Methionine Complex, Copper Sulfate, Copper Lysine Complex, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Sodium Selenite, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Cobalt Carbonate And Cobalt Glucoheptonate
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 Meal
Duck that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Turkey Meal
Turkey that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Dried Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes with their moisture removed, used as a concentrated grain-free carbohydrate.
Green Lentils
Lentils of the green variety, which keep their skins and hold their shape when cooked.
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 Evanger's and the archive average.
| Metric | This recipe | Evanger’s Super Premium Chicken with… | Archive average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Score | 59 | 64 | -- |
| Protein, water out | 26.7% | 28.9% | -- |
| Starch, water out | 47.2% | 43.3% | 38.51% |
| Named in first five | 2 of 5 | 3 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 Evanger's. We check the feed daily and this page updates when that changes.
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