Iams Adult Small Breed Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Iams Adult Small Breed Dry Dog Food are Chicken, Chicken By-Product Meal, Whole Grain Ground Corn, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, and Dried Beet Pulp.
Iams Adult Small Breed Dry Dog Food Ingredients
Chicken is an excellent source of healthy protein for dogs. It is filled with essential amino acids to build strong muscles and help to maintain organs and tissue.
In addition to being a flavor that dogs love, chicken also delivers Omega 6 fatty acids that help sustain healthy skin and shiny coats along with B3 and B6 vitamins, phosphorous and selenium as well.
Chicken By-Product Meal is rendered mix of less desirable parts (eg. gizzards, giblets, feet), internal organs (eg. lungs, spleen, liver, heart, kidneys) and bones of a chicken.
Chicken by-products are protein rich like chicken and also it's a natural source of Chondroitin Sulfate and Glucosamine. However, it's an already processed material in dog food manufacturing and makes the food ultra-processed.
This provides easily digestible carbohydrates.
This ingredient is also called Milo and is an excellent source for energy, and is one of the carbohydrate sources. It is cracked and cooked for better digestibility.
Is the fifth ingredient. This is an ingredient that is rich in fiber.
Starch Meter
According to the guaranteed analysis, Iams Adult Small Breed Dry Dog Food has 27% protein, 17% fat, 4% fiber, and 10% moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 37%.
We calculated the starch ratio in Iams Adult Small Breed Dry Dog Food as 37%. Basically, around two fifth (almost half) of the food you feed to {your dog} is starch.
Average starch ratio of dry dog foods on inthekibble.com is 38.67% - and that means this Iams kibble has less starch ratio than the average.
