Lotus Oven Baked Regular Bites Duck Recipe Dry Dog Food
The first five ingredients are Duck, Duck Meal, Peas, Cassava Flour, Potatoes. 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.
Reasonable protein and a fairly typical starch load. Comfortably mid-range for a dry food.
How we got to 65
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 24 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, Duck Meal, Peas, Cassava Flour, Potatoes, Herring Meal, Pea Fiber, Dried Egg Product, Brewers Dried Yeast, Sweet Potatoes, Ground Flaxseed, Duck Fat Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid, Potassium Chloride, Salmon Oil, Olive Oil, Carrot, Apple, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Calcium Propionate, 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., Vitamin E Supplement, Blueberries, Pumpkin, Spinach, Dried Kelp, Garlic, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Calcium Carbonate, Niacin, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin D Supplement, Vitamin B Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Yucca Schidegera Extract, Inulin, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, Sodium Selenite, 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.
Duck
The clean flesh of the duck, with or without skin, used fresh.
Duck Meal
Duck that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Peas
The seed of the pea plant, used whole, split or dried as a carbohydrate and plant protein source.
Cassava Flour
Flour milled from the dried cassava root, used as a grain-free carbohydrate and binder.
Potatoes
The tuber of the potato plant, cooked and used as a grain-free 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 Lotus and the archive average.
| Metric | This recipe | Lotus Oven Baked Regular Bites… | Archive average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Score | 65 | 59 | -- |
| Protein, water out | 33.3% | 26.7% | -- |
| Starch, water out | 41.1% | 50.0% | 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 Lotus. We check the feed daily and this page updates when that changes.
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