I and Love and You Naked Essentials Ancient Grains Recipe with Chicken + Turkey Dry Dog Food
The first five ingredients are Chicken, Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Ground Sorghum, Oatmeal. 3 of them are a named animal protein. We put the starch at 37.8%, 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.
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 13 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, Turkey Meal, Ground Sorghum, Oatmeal, Millet, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Natural Pork Flavor, Dried Egg Product, Natural Flavor, Quinoa, Turkey, Dried Tomato Pomace, Flaxseeds, Ground Miscanthus Grass, Fish Oil, Dried Carrots, 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., Potassium Chloride, Monosodium Phosphate, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate), Dried Chicory Root, Taurine, Citric Acid (Preservative), Mixed Tocopherols (Preservative), Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product, Dl-methionine, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin Supplement, D-calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid), Choline Chloride, L-carnitine, Rosemary Extract
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.
Turkey Meal
Turkey that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Ground Sorghum
Sorghum grain ground for digestibility, a gluten-free cereal.
Oatmeal
Oats that have been rolled or ground, used as a whole grain carbohydrate.
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 | 75 | 64 | -- |
| Protein, water out | 33.3% | 31.8% | -- |
| Starch, water out | 37.8% | 39.8% | 38.51% |
| Named in first five | 3 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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