Iams Puppy Small Breed Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Iams Puppy Small Breed Dry Dog Food are Chicken, Whole Grain Ground Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, and Dried Beet Pulp.
Iams Puppy 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.
This corn product is ground to a fine flour to make it more digestible and is used to give fuel to your pet. Diamond tests all incoming corn for aflatoxin.
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.
Corn Gluten Meal is the principal protein of corn. Despite the name, corn gluten does not contain true gluten which makes it 100% gluten-free indeed.
CGM has over 60% crude protein and good for digestibility.
Is the fifth ingredient. This is an ingredient that is rich in fiber.
Starch Meter
According to the guaranteed analysis, Iams Puppy Small Breed Dry Dog Food has 30% protein, 18% fat, 4% fiber, and 10% moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 33%.
We calculated the starch ratio in Iams Puppy Small Breed Dry Dog Food as 33%. Basically, around one third 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.