Iams Proactive Health Senior With Slow Cooked Chicken AND Rice Classic Ground Wet Dog Food
Wet food in 13.0 oz cans. With the water taken out it is 44% protein and 19% fat, and each can carries 306 kcal.
- Sold as a meal for senior dogs
- Minced
- 13.0 oz can
- 84% water
*For a 45 lb adult dog on this food alone. Set your own dog.
Ingredient Wiki
Water
Plain water, used to make the recipe mixable and, in wet food, to fill the can.
Chicken
The clean flesh of the chicken, with or without skin, used fresh. Roughly 70% of its weight is water, most…
Animal Liver
Liver from an unspecified animal.
Meat By-Products
The parts of a mammal left after the flesh is removed, without the animal being named.
Brewers Rice
The small fragments of rice kernel separated out during milling, a by-product of producing whole white rice.
Our read The ingredients
A plain chicken and grain recipe with a senior name
Signature feature
Slow cooked chicken & rice
With slow cooked chicken & rice in sauce
What it is Chicken sits 2nd, right after water, ahead of liver and by-products. The rice is brewers rice, 5th, the broken kernels left from milling.
Our grade
- Marketing
- Modest
- Meaningful
Chicken right behind water is the norm for canned food, not a standout. It shares the can with liver and by-products, and wheat flour and gluten follow the rice, so wheat-sensitive dogs should pass.
Modest Real, but smaller than the pack makes it sound.
Brewers rice, wheat flour and wheat gluten run 5th to 7th. The rice on the front comes with 2 wheat ingredients the can never pictures.
- 5 brewers rice
- 6 wheat flour
- 7 wheat gluten
What’s in the can
- First ingredient
- Water, there for moisture. Almost every wet food opens with water or broth; what follows it is the recipe.
- First meat
- chicken, second on the list.
- Thickeners and binders
- wheat flour, wheat gluten, locust bean gum, carrageenan, xanthan gum, sodium tripolyphosphate and guar gum. They give the food its texture and hold pieces together. Normal in wet food; starches and flours also add carbohydrate.
- Added color
- None listed.
- Flagged additives
- None from our list.
Guaranteed
Analysis
As printed on the can, measured “as fed”
- Calories
- 830 kcal/kg
- Crude Protein (min.)
- 7.0%
- Crude Fat (min.)
- 3.0%
- Crude Fiber (max.)
- 1.0%
- Moisture (max.)
- 84.0%
306 kcal per 13.0 oz can.
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Full Ingredient
Declaration
Exactly as the can prints it, heaviest first
Water, chicken, animal liver, meat by-products, brewers rice, wheat flour, wheat gluten, flaxseed, locust bean gum, calcium carbonate, carrageenan, minerals (potassium chloride, magnesium proteinate, zinc sulfate, sodium selenite, copper proteinate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide), xanthan gum, sodium tripolyphosphate, dried yam, guar gum, vitamins (choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, thiamine mononitrate, calcium pantothenate, biotin, riboflavin, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin B12 supplement), fish oil, yellow #6, yellow #5
Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so the tail of the list is present in very small amounts.
Wet food is mostly water, so the label’s percentages look small next to kibble. Taking the water out is the only fair way to compare it with other foods.
| NUTRIENT | ON THE LABEL | WATER OUT | WET FOOD MEDIAN |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROTEIN | 7.0% | 43.8% | 43.2% |
| FAT | 3.0% | 18.8% | 22.2% |
| FIBER | 1.0% | 6.3% | - |
| CARBS (EST.) | - | 18.8% | - |
Carbohydrate is not on any label: it is what is left after protein, fat, fiber, water and an assumed 2% ash.
Our read The label
Average protein, an adult food with a senior name
370mg
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Is it a senior formula?
Adult food
AAFCO has no senior profile, and the can itself says adult. Healthy Aging names the line; nothing in the recipe is specific to older dogs.
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Is it a high-protein food?
About average
Its dry-basis protein sits right at the wet food average. Chicken, liver and by-products lead, and wheat gluten, 7th, adds plant protein too.
- Feed it to
- Healthy adult and older dogs that do well on chicken and wheat and like a soft canned meal.
- Skip it for
- Dogs sensitive to wheat or chicken, seniors who need a vet kidney or joint diet, and owners avoiding artificial dyes.
What a can costs
| SIZE | LOWEST PRICE | PER LB | WHERE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.8 oz | $2.38 | $2.97 | Walmart |
Prices are from our check on Sep 30. Prices change often; the store’s price at checkout is the one that counts. We may earn a commission on some links.
Daily portion calculator
Calculated from the resting energy formula vets use and this food’s actual calorie density (830 kcal per kg, 306 kcal per can). A starting point to adjust from, not a prescription.
1 FDA Recall On Record
Limited lots of Iams and Eukanuba dry dog and cat food (P&G) Matched by brand. The notice lists the exact products and lots.
None in the last three years. Older events stay on the record. See the recall log
Other Flavors
Protein with the water taken out, read the same way.
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