I and Love and You Baked & Saucy Chicken + Sweet Potato Dry Dog Food
The first five ingredients are Chicken, Chicken Meal, Pea Flour, Tapioca Starch, Pea Starch. 2 of them are a named animal protein. We put the starch at 39.8%, above 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 88% 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 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, Chicken Meal, Pea Flour, Tapioca Starch, Pea Starch, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Turkey Meal, Dried Sweet Potatoes, Gelatin, FLaxseeds, Dried Yeast, Chicken Bone Broth, Cellulose Gum, Natural Flavors, 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., Dried Whole Milk, Potassium Chloride, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D Supplement, Niacin, D-calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Source Of Vitamin B6), Riboflavin Supplement, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Choline Chloride, Fish Oil, Dl-methionine, Manganese Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Monohydrate, Copper Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Calcium Carbonate, Sodium Selenite, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Dried Chicory Root, Mixed Tocopherols (As Preservative), Rosemary Extract, Vitamin E Supplement, Taurine, Dried Bacillus Coagulans 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.
Chicken
The clean flesh of the chicken, with or without skin, used fresh. Roughly 70% of its weight is water, most of which is driven off during…
Chicken Meal
Chicken that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal, with most of the water and fat removed.
Pea Flour
Flour milled from dried peas, carrying both the protein and the starch of the whole pea.
Tapioca Starch
The starch extracted from the cassava root, used as a grain-free binder and carbohydrate.
Pea Starch
The starch fraction separated out from peas after the protein and fiber are removed.
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 I and Love and You and the archive average.
| Metric | This recipe | I and Love and You… | Archive average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Score | 64 | 64 | -- |
| Protein, water out | 31.8% | 31.8% | -- |
| Starch, water out | 39.8% | 39.8% | 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 I and Love and You. We check the feed daily and this page updates when that changes.
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