Eukanuba Adult Large Breed Chicken Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Eukanuba Adult Large Breed Chicken Dry Dog Food are Chicken, Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal, Wheat, and Ground Grain Sorghum.
Eukanuba Adult Large Breed Chicken 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.
Corn is a fibrous grain that promotes gut health as well as gastrointestinal motility. It provides easily digestible carbohydrates, and that makes it a key energy source. Also corn has linoleic acid, an essential omega-6 fatty acid to maintain healthy skin, coat and immune system.
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.
Is grain cereal with a high starch content and a nutritional profile similar to corn. Sorghum is gluten free and may have less of a blood sugar impact than some other starchy grains.
Starch Meter
According to the guaranteed analysis, Eukanuba Adult Large Breed Chicken Dry Dog Food has 23% protein, 13% fat, 3.9% fiber, and 10% moisture. If we assume 5% ash, then the starch amount in this dog food is 45.1%.
We calculated the starch ratio in Eukanuba Adult Large Breed Chicken Dry Dog Food as 45.1%. 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 Eukanuba kibble has more starch ratio than the average.
