Merrick Lil’ Plates Grain-Free Real Salmon + Sweet Potatoes Recipe Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Merrick Lil' Plates Grain-Free Real Salmon + Sweet Potatoes Recipe Dry Dog Food are Deboned Salmon, Salmon Meal, Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, and Peas. According to the guaranteed analysis, we calculated the starch ratio as 33.5%.
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- moisture
- ash, assumed
- starch, derived
Ingredient Wiki
Salmon
The flesh of salmon, an oily cold-water fish, used fresh.
Salmon Meal
Salmon that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Sweet Potatoes
The tuber of the sweet potato plant, cooked and used as a grain-free carbohydrate. Botanically unrelated to the ordinary potato.
Potatoes
The tuber of the potato plant, cooked and used as a grain-free carbohydrate.
Peas
The seed of the pea plant, used whole, split or dried as a carbohydrate and plant protein source.
Guaranteed
Analysis
As printed on the bag, measured “as fed”
- Calories
- 3,728 kcal/kg
- Crude Protein (min.)
- 31.0%
- Crude Fat (min.)
- 15.0%
- Crude Fiber (max.)
- 3.5%
- Moisture (max.)
- 11.0%
- Starch ratio (calculated)
- 33.5%
475 kcal per cup.
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Full Ingredient
Declaration
Exactly as the bag prints it, heaviest first
Deboned Salmon, Salmon Meal, Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, Peas, Whitefish Meal, Pork Fat Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols, Potato Protein, Natural Flavor, Flaxseed, Miscanthus Grass, Sunflower Oil, Dried Yeast, Potassium Chloride, 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., Apples, Blueberries, Choline Chloride, Minerals, DL-Methionine, Taurine, Vitamins, Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols, Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product
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.
| NUTRIENT | AS FED | DRY M. | READING |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROTEIN | 31.0% | 34.8% | HIGH |
| FAT | 15.0% | 16.9% | n/a |
| FIBER | 3.5% | 3.9% | n/a |
| CARB (EST.) | 33.5% | 37.6% | TYPICAL |
Daily portion calculator
Calculated from the resting energy formula vets use and this food’s actual calorie density (475 kcal per cup). A starting point to adjust from, not a prescription.
1 FDA Recall On Record
Beef dog treat varieties Reflects the manufacturer, not this recipe.
None in the last three years. Older events stay on the record. See the recall log
Other Flavors
Protein on a dry matter basis, read the same way.