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INSTINCT · RAW BOOST

Instinct Raw Boost Grain-Free Recipe with Real Chicken for Senior Dogs Dry Dog Food

Top 5 ingredients of Instinct Raw Boost Grain-Free Recipe with Real Chicken for Senior Dogs Dry Dog Food are Chicken Meal, Salmon Meal, Chicken, Tapioca, and Chickpeas. According to the guaranteed analysis, we calculated the starch ratio as 29.5%.

Composition of one cup as fed: protein 36.0%, fat 16.0%, fiber 3.5%, moisture 9.0%, ash, assumed 6.0%, starch, derived 29.5%
36%
16%
9%
30%
  • protein
  • fat
  • fiber
  • moisture
  • ash, assumed
  • starch, derived
Starch works out at 29.5% of this cup, below the kibble average. Protein comes in at 36.0%.
PROTEIN
36.0%
STARCH, DERIVED
29.5%
KCAL / CUP
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Instinct Raw Boost Grain-Free Recipe with Real Chicken for Senior Dogs Dry Dog Food

Ingredient Wiki

FIRST 5 OF 31 COMPONENTS
Chicken Meal

Chicken Meal

Chicken that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal, with most of the water and fat removed.
Salmon Meal

Salmon Meal

Salmon that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Chicken

Chicken

The clean flesh of the chicken, with or without skin, used fresh. Roughly 70% of its weight is water, most…
Tapioca

Tapioca

A starch extracted from the root of the cassava plant.
Chickpeas

Chickpeas

The seed of the chickpea plant, also sold as the garbanzo bean.

Guaranteed
Analysis

As printed on the bag, measured “as fed”

Crude Protein (min.)
36.0%
Crude Fat (min.)
16.0%
Crude Fiber (max.)
3.5%
Moisture (max.)
9.0%
Starch ratio (calculated)
29.5%

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Full Ingredient
Declaration

Exactly as the bag prints it, heaviest first

SALT DIVIDER

Chicken Meal (source of Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate), Salmon Meal, Chicken, Tapioca, Chickpeas, Peas, Egg Product, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid), Freeze Dried Chicken, Salmon Oil, Dried Tomato Pomace, Freeze Dried Chicken Liver, Natural Flavor, Pumpkinseeds, Montmorillonite Clay, Freeze Dried Chicken Heart, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Niacin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Biotin), Carrots, Apples, Cranberries, Potassium Chloride, Minerals (Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide), L-Carnitine, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Turmeric, Salt*The Salt Divider. Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after this point is present in an even smaller amount., Dried Kelp, Blueberries, Dried Bacillus coagulans Fermentation Product, Rosemary Extract

Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after the divider is present in an even smaller amount.

NUTRITION, DRY MATTER
NUTRIENT AS FED DRY M. READING
PROTEIN 36.0% 39.6% HIGH
FAT 16.0% 17.6% n/a
FIBER 3.5% 3.8% n/a
CARB (EST.) 29.5% 32.4% TYPICAL
STARCH RATIO 29.5% KIBBLE AVG 38.0%
RECALL HISTORY // INSTINCT

2 FDA Recalls On Record

JUL 24, 2015
SALMONELLA

Instinct® Raw Chicken Formula for dogs Matched by brand. The notice lists the exact products and lots.

FEB 15, 2013
PLASTIC PIECES

Pet food 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

SAME LINE

Other Flavors

Original Grain-Free 40.0% Original Grain-Free 41.1% Original Grain-Free 38.3% Original Grain-Free 40.6%

Protein on a dry matter basis, read the same way.

One honest caveat. These figures are what a label will tell us: protein, starch, the top of the ingredient list, flagged additives and the brand’s recall record. They cannot tell you whether your dog will do well on this food. Allergies, gut sensitivity, age and health conditions all matter more than any of it, and none of them are printed on a bag. If your dog is thriving on a food whose figures read lower than this one, that is not a mistake, and we would not switch on our say-so.

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