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Nutro Natural Choice Small Bites Adult Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food

Top 5 ingredients of Nutro Natural Choice Small Bites Adult Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food are Deboned Lamb, Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Whole Grain Brown Rice, and Rice Bran.

Guaranteed Analysis
Crude Protein (min.): 22%
Crude Fat (min.): 14%
Crude Fiber (max.): 3.5%
Moisture (max.): 10%
Calories: 3,631 kcal/kg, 341 kcal/cup

Nutro Natural Choice Small Bites Adult Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food Ingredients

Deboned Lamb, Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Whole Grain Brown Rice, Rice Bran, Split Peas, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Natural Flavor, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Whole Flaxseed, Choline Chloride, Potassium Chloride, DL-Methionine, Citric Acid (preservative), Mixed Tocopherols (preservative), Chia Seed, Dried Coconut, Dried Tomato Pomace, Dried Egg Product, Dried Pumpkin, Dried Kale, Dried Spinach, Salt, Vitamin E Supplement, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Sodium Selenite, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B2), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Folic Acid, Rosemary Extract
We specified the salt's position and marked it to help you evaluate the ingredients better with The Salt Divider.
Brewers Rice in dog food

Deboned Lamb is a highly nutritious and easily digestible source of protein for dogs. It is a good source of essential amino acids, which are necessary for the growth and maintenance of muscle mass.

Deboned lamb is also a good source of vitamins and minerals, such as iron, zinc, and B vitamins, which can help support a dog's overall health and well-being.

Chicken Meal is a dry, rendered product from whole chickens that has been through some processing to remove water and fat. It looks like brown flour, and it's a highly concentrated protein/mineral resource.

Chicken meal is basically chicken with a longer storage time. It's a protein-rich food and also Vitamin B12, Tryptophan, Choline, Zinc, Iron, and Copper resource. However, it's an already processed material in dog food manufacturing and makes the food ultra-processed.

Brewers Rice is no different from white rice, except that the grain is broken into pieces. As such, it offers the same nutritional value as white rice with trace amounts of Iron, Vitamin B6, Magnesium and Calcium and Potassium.

Brewers rice is often used as an inexpensive filler ingredient to add volume to dog food and also it increases digestibility

A good whole grain providing protien, fiber and many essential nutrients, it is an easily digestible carbohydrate source. Brown rice is also low in fat, but provides a good source of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids as well as Vitamin E.

Is the outer husk and germ of a grain of rice. It is a rich source of minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, and fiber.

Starch Meter

According to the guaranteed analysis, Nutro Natural Choice Small Bites Adult Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food has 22% protein, 14% fat, 3.5% fiber, and 10% moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 45.5%.

The largest proportion of Carbohydrates in dog food is provided by starch and indeed dogs don't have carbohydrate requirement at all.

We calculated the starch ratio in Nutro Natural Choice Small Bites Adult Lamb & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food as 45.5%. Basically, 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 Natural Choice kibble has more starch ratio than the average.

Protein (22%)
Starch (45.5 %)
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