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Description
Every Farmina food is made with the best ingredients with the correct amounts of protein, fats, limited carbohydrates and advanced long life vitamins and minerals. The Natural & Delicious Grain-Free formulas are comprised of 70% animal ingredients (pre-cooking weight) and 30% vegetables, fruits, vitamins and minerals. These diets are also quite different from competing foods because they use better quality protein sources that are devoid of bone, so ash is as low as 7.80% and calcium and phosphorous levels are controlled.
Price Score: 41 out of 100 Points
Variety Score: 49 out of 100 Points
Brand Score: 93 out of 100 Points
Ingredients Score: 73 out of 100 Points
Total Score: 68.8 out of 100 Points
Key Benefits
- The #1 ingredient in this high protein, limited carbohydrate, and low fiber all life stage dog food is deboned chicken. It's been formulated without grains or gluten and with a small kibble size, perfect for small and medium breed puppies.
- 92% of protein is from quality animal sources which makes for a low ash content. Ingredients are also fresh and never frozen for optimum nutrition.
- It's a low glycemic formula so it's a great option for pets that need a food that won't spike blood sugar.
- This GMO-free formula doesn't contain peas, lentils, pea protein, chickpeas, or added plants oils.
- Natural omega fatty acids promote healthy skin and coat while added pomegranate and berries are rich in antioxidants to help fight free radicals.
Ingredients
Deboned Chicken, Dehydrated Chicken (Source of Glucosamine & Chondroitin Sulfate), Potato, Chicken Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Dehydrated Egg Product, Herring (Source of Glucosamine & Chondroitin Sulfate), Dehydrated Herring (Source of Glucosamine & Chondroitin Sulfate), Herring & Salmon Oil Blend (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Dried Carrots, Sun-Cured Alfalfa Meal, Chicory Root Extract, Fructooligosaccharide, Yeast Extract (Source of Mannan-Oligosaccharides), Dehydrated Pomegranate, Dehydrated Apple, Dehydrated Spinach, Psyllium Seed Husk, Dehydrated Blackcurrant Berry, Dehydrated Sweet Orange, Dehydrated Blueberry, Salt, Brewers Dried Yeast, Turmeric, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate, Biotin, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Choline Chloride, Beta-Carotene, Zinc Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Selenium Yeast, Dl-Methionine, Taurine, L-Carnitine, Aloe Vera Gel Concentrate, Green Tea Extract, Rosemary Extract. Caloric Content 4,556 kcal/kg, 19.1 MJ/kg, 492 kcal/cupSee products with the same ingredients:
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Aloe Vera Gel Concentrate (6)
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Ascorbic Acid - Harmless ingredient
(50)
Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid and ascorbate, is a vitamin found in various foods and sold as a dietary supplement. It is used to prevent and treat scurvy. Vitamin C is an essential nutrient involved in the repair of tissue and the enzymatic production of certain neurotransmitters.
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Beta carotene (16)
β-Carotene is an organic, strongly colored red-orange pigment abundant in plants and fruits. It is a member of the carotenes, which are terpenoids, synthesized biochemically from eight isoprene units and thus having 40 carbons. Among the carotenes, β-carotene is distinguished by having beta-rings at both ends of the molecule.
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Biotin - Harmless ingredient
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Biotin also called vitamin H, vitamin B7 or vitamin B8 is a water-soluble B vitamin. It is involved in a wide range of metabolic processes, both in humans and in other organisms, primarily related to the utilization of fats, carbohydrates, and amino acids.
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Brewers Dried Yeast (36)
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Calcium Pantothenate - Controversial ingredient
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Chicken Fat - Healthy ingredient
(71)
Chicken fat is fat obtained from chicken rendering and processing. Of the many animal-sourced substances, chicken fat is noted for being high in linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid. Linoleic acid levels are between 17.9% and 22.8%. It is a common flavoring, additive or main component of chicken soup.
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Chicory Root Extract (16)
Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated for salad leaves, chicons, or roots (var. sativum), which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and food additive.
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Choline Chloride - Harmless ingredient
(236)
Choline chloride is an organic compound with the formula 3NCH2CH2OH]Cl. It is bifunctional, containing both quaternary ammonium salt and an alcohol. The cation is choline, which occurs naturally. It is a white, water-soluble salt used mainly in animal feed..
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Copper Proteinate - Controversial ingredient
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Deboned Chicken (8)
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Dehydrated Apple (2)
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Dehydrated Blackcurrant Berry (2)
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Dehydrated Blueberry (3)
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Dehydrated Chicken (3)
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Dehydrated Egg Product (2)
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Dehydrated Herring (2)
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Dehydrated Pomegranate (2)
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Dehydrated Spinach (2)
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Dehydrated Sweet Orange (2)
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Dl-Methionine - Healthy ingredient
(62)
Methionine is an essential amino acid in humans. As the substrate for other amino acids such as cysteine and taurine, versatile compounds such as SAM-e, and the important antioxidant glutathione, methionine plays a critical role in the metabolism and health of many species, including humans.
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Dried Carrots (15)
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Folic Acid - Harmless ingredient
(235)
Folate, also known as vitamin B9 and folacin, is one of the B vitamins. Manufactured folic acid, which is converted into folate by the body, is used as a dietary supplement and in food fortification as it is more stable during processing and storage.
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Fructooligosaccharide (14)
Fructooligosaccharides also sometimes called oligofructose or oligofructan, are oligosaccharide fructans, used as an alternative sweetener. FOS exhibits sweetness levels between 30 and 50 percent of sugar in commercially prepared syrups.[unreliable source?] It occurs naturally, and its commercial use emerged in the 1980s in response to consumer demand for healthier and calorie-reduced foods..
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Green Tea Extract (26)
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Herring (6)
Herring Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family Clupeidae. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast. The most abundant and commercially important species belong to the genus Clupea, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, including the Baltic Sea, as well as off the west coast of South America.
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Herring Salmon Oil Blend (2)
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Iron Proteinate - Controversial ingredient
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L-Carnitine (27)
Carnitine is a quaternary ammonium compound involved in metabolism in most mammals, plants, and some bacteria. Carnitine exists as one of two stereoisomers. Both are biologically active but only l-carnitine naturally occurs in animals and d-carnitine is toxic as it inhibits the activity of the l-form.
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Manganese Proteinate - Controversial ingredient
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Niacin - Harmless ingredient
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Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, is an organic compound and a form of vitamin B3, an essential human nutrient. It has the formula C 6H 5NO 2 and belongs to the group of the pyridinecarboxylic acid. Niacin is obtained in the diet from a variety of whole and processed foods, with highest contents in fortified packaged foods, tuna, salmon, some vegetable and other animal sources.
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Potato (5)
The potato is a root vegetable native to the Americas, a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum, and the plant itself, a perennial in the family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found throughout the Americas, from the United States to southern Chile.
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Psyllium Seed Husk (4)
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Pyridoxine Hydrochloride - Harmless ingredient
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Riboflavin - Harmless ingredient
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Riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement. Food sources include eggs, green vegetables, milk and other dairy product, meat, mushrooms, and almonds. Some countries require its addition to grains. As a supplement it is used to prevent and treat riboflavin deficiency and prevent migraines.
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Salt - Harmless ingredient
(231)
Salt is a mineral consisting primarily of sodium chloride, a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater, where it is the main mineral constituent.
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Selenium Yeast (14)
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Sun-Cured Alfalfa Meal (3)
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Taurine - Healthy ingredient
(151)
Taurine, or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, is an organic compound that is widely distributed in animal tissues. It is a major constituent of bile and can be found in the large intestine, and accounts for up to 0.1% of total human body weight.
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Thiamine Mononitrate - Harmless ingredient
(256)
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Turmeric (14)
Turmeric is a flowering plant, Curcuma longa of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae, the roots of which are used in cooking. The plant is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, that requires temperatures between 20 and 30 °C and a considerable amount of annual rainfall to thrive.
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Vitamin A - Harmless ingredient
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Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids. Vitamin A has multiple functions: it is important for growth and development, for the maintenance of the immune system, and for good vision.
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Vitamin B12 - Harmless ingredient
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Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin involved in the metabolism of every cell of the human body: it is a cofactor in DNA synthesis, and in both fatty acid and amino acid metabolism. It is particularly important in the normal functioning of the nervous system via its role in the synthesis of myelin, and in the maturation of developing red blood cells in the bone marrow.
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Vitamin D3 - Harmless ingredient
(244)
Cholecalciferol, also known as vitamin D3 and colecalciferol, is a type of vitamin D which is made by the skin when exposed to sunlight; it is also found in some foods and can be taken as a dietary supplement. It is used to treat and prevent vitamin D deficiency and associated diseases, including rickets.
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Vitamin E - Harmless ingredient
(283)
Vitamin E is a group of eight fat soluble compounds that include four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. Vitamin E deficiency, which is rare and usually due to an underlying problem with digesting dietary fat rather than from a diet low in vitamin E, can cause nerve problems.
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Yeast Extract (16)
Yeast extracts consist of the cell contents of yeast without the cell walls; they are used as food additives or flavorings, or as nutrients for bacterial culture media. They are often used to create savory flavors and umami taste sensations, and can be found in a large variety of packaged food, including frozen meals, crackers, snack foods, gravy, stock and more.
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Zinc Proteinate - Controversial ingredient
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Guaranteed Analysis
| Crude Protein | 42.0% min |
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| Crude Fat | 22.0% min |
| Crude Fiber | 2.3.0% max |
| Moisture | 10.0% max |
| Ash | 8.6% max |
| Calcium | 1.5% min |
| Phosphorus | 1.0% min |
| Omega-6 Fatty Acids | 3.4% min |
| Omega-3 Fatty Acids | 1.2% min |
| Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) | 0.7% min |
| Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) | 0.4% min |
| Glucosamine | 900/kg min |
| Chondroitin SulFate | 600/kg min |
Dry Matter Basis
| Crude Protein | 46.7% |
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| Crude Fat | 24.4% |
| Crude Fiber | 2.6% |
| Moisture | 11.1% |