How Does Your Dog Food Rate?, Info provided by Speedster Options

[Kim]

Thanks Speedster for finding this list.

Disclaimer: Info found on a public site on the Internet. Members and board are not responsible for the accuracy of the data presented.

Dog Food scores:

Alpo Prime Cuts / Score 81 C
Artemis Large/Medium Breed Puppy / Score 114 A+
Authority Harvest Baked / Score 116 A+
Authority Harvest Baked Less Active / Score 93 B
Beowulf Back to Basics / Score 101 A+
Bil-Jac Select / Score 68 F
Blackwood 3000 Lamb and Rice / Score 83 C
Blue Buffalo Chicken and Rice / Score 106 A+
Burns Chicken and Brown Rice / Score 107 A+
Canidae / Score 112 A+
Chicken Soup Senior / Score 115 A+
Diamond Maintenance / Score 64 F
Diamond Lamb Meal & Rice / Score 92 B
Diamond Large Breed 60+ Formula / Score 99 A
Diamond Performance / Score 85 C
Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Ultra Premium / Score 122 A+
Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Venison and Brown Rice / Score 106
A+
Dick Van Patten's Duck and Potato / Score 106 A+
EaglePack Holistic / Score 102 A+
Eukanuba Adult / Score 81 C
Eukanuba Puppy / Score 79 C
Flint River Senior / Score 101 A+
Foundations / Score 106 A+
Hund-n-Flocken Adult Dog (lamb) by Solid Gold / Score 93 B
Iams Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Premium / Score 73 D
Innova Dog / Score 114 A+
Innova Evo / Score 114 A+
Innova Large Breed Puppy / Score 122 A+
Kirkland Signature Chicken, Rice, and Vegetables / Score 110 A+
Member's Mark Chicken and Rice / Score 84 C
Merrick Wilderness Blend / Score 127 A+
Nature's Recipe / Score 100 A
Nature's Recipe Healthy Skin Venison and Rice / Score 116 A+
Nature's Variety Raw Instinct / Score 122 A+
Nutra Nuggets Super Premium Lamb Meal and Rice / Score 81 C
Nutrience Junior Medium Breed Puppy / Score 101 A+
Nutrisource Lamb and Rice / Score 87 B
Nutro Max Adult / Score 93 B
Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice / Score 98 A
Nutro Natural Choice Large Breed Puppy / Score 87 B
Nutro Natural Choice Puppy Wheat Free / Score 86 B
Nutro Natural Choice Senior / Score 95 A
Nutro Ultra Adult / Score 104 A+
Pet Gold Adult with Lamb & Rice / Score 23 F
Premium Edge Chicken, Rice and Vegetables Adult Dry / Score 109 A+
Pro Nature Puppy / Score 80 C
Pro Plan Sensitive Stomach / Score 94 A
Purina Ben ful / Score 17 F
Purina Dog / Score 62 F
Purina Come-n-Get It / Score 16 F
Purina One Large Breed Puppy / Score 62 F
Royal Canin Boxer / Score 103 A+
Royal Canin Bulldog / Score 100 A+
Royal Canin Natural Blend Adult / Score 106 A+
Science Diet Advanced Protein Senior 7+ / Score 63 F
Science Diet for Large Breed Puppies / Score 69 F
Sensible Choice Chicken and Rice / Score 97 A
Solid Gold / Score 99 A
Summit / Score 99 A
Timberwolf Organics Wild & Natural Dry / Score 120 A+
Wellness Super5 Mix Chicken / Score 110 A+
Wolfking Adult Dog (bison) by Solid Gold / Score 97 A




Start with a grade of 100:
1) For every listing of "by-product", subtract 10 points
2) For every non-specific animal source ("meat" or "poultry", meat,
meal or fat) reference, subtract 10 points
3) If the food contains BHA, BHT, or ethoxyquin, subtract 10 points
4) For every grain "mill run" or non-specific grain source, subtract
5 points
5) If the same grain ingredient is used 2 or more times in the first
five ingredients (i.e. "ground brown rice", "brewer's rice", "rice
flour" are all the same grain), subtract 5 points
6) If the protein sources are not meat meal and there are less than 2
meats in the top 3 ingredients, subtract 3 points
7) If it contains any artificial colorants, subtract 3 points
8 ) If it contains ground corn or whole grain corn, subtract 3 points
9) If corn is listed in the top 5 ingredients, subtract 2 more points
10) If the food contains any animal fat other than fish oil, subtract
2 points
11) If lamb is the only animal protein source (unless your dog is
allergic to other protein sources), subtract 2 points
12) If it contains soy or soybeans, subtract 2 points
13) If it contains wheat (unless you know that your dog isn't
allergic to wheat), subtract 2 points
14) If it contains beef (unless you know that your dog isn't allergic
to beef), subtract 1 point
15) If it contains salt, subtract 1 point
Extra Credit:
1) If any of the meat sources are organic, add 5 points
2) If the food is endorsed by any major breed group or nutritionist,
add 5 points
3) If the food is baked not extruded, add 5 points
4) If the food contains probiotics, add 3 points
5) If the food contains fruit, add 3 points
6) If the food contains vegetables (NOT corn or other grains), add 3
points
7) If the animal sources are hormone-free and antibiotic-free, add 2
points
8 ) If the food contains barley, add 2 points
9) If the food contains flax seed oil (not just the seeds), add 2
points
10) If the food contains oats or oatmeal, add 1 point
11) If the food contains sunflower oil, add 1 point
12) For every different specific animal protein source (other than
the first one; count "chicken" and "chicken meal" as only one protein
source, but "chicken" and "" as 2 different sources), add 1 point
13) If it contains glucosamine and chondroitin, add 1 point
14) If the vegetables have been tested for pesticides and are
pesticide-free, add 1 point

A = 94-100
B= 86-93
C = 78-85
D= 70-77

[ava]

helpful information, and I almost bought some of that Dick Van Patten stuff last time and I've heard before that its good stuff. I'm still thinking of getting some this go around because I have enough of their current meal to do a careful switching of food. I buy dog food for two weeks at a time.

[IGandWhippetlove...]

mine is not on there. And right now I will not change so that Tony eats.

[Sarah B.]

Out of curiosity I figured out what grade our food gets since it wasn't on the list. I hope I did this right...

IAMS Proactive Health Chunks 1+ years 88 B (new food we are going to try)
-10 Chicken By-Product Meal
-3 protein source not meat meal and less than 2 meats in top 3 ingred.
-2 contains chicken fat
+3 beet pulp

Pedigree Adult Complete Nutrition small crunchy bites. 41 F (food I bought as a new/naive dog owner who jumped at a discount bag, now embarrassed of cource)
-10 ch by-prod meal
-20 meat and bone meal, animal fat
-10 BHA/BHT
-10 wheat mill run
-3 not meat meal
-3 art colors
-2 animal fat
-1 salt

Looks like I need to get a Costco card again...

Any suggestions of what Whippet owners use/like? for dog food?

[Capercaillie]

Any suggestions of what Whippet owners use/like? for dog food?

I feed raw but if you are looking for a good kibble I highly recommend Orijen, Innova Evo, or Natures Variety to name a few.

[DenverRunner]

Any suggestions of what Whippet owners use/like? for dog food?

My boys love innova evo.

[Julie]

Oh this is very helpful thanks Kim!

[Zorro's Mom]

Zorro loves Innova (I think it's the large breed one). He's extremely regular at 2-3 times/day, and he has a lot of energy and very soft hair. He does have bad breath sometimes, though...

[maddykins]

I have found this chart to be helpful also. It rates the food, lists ingredients, mentions good and bad qualities, and compares quality and price.

http://www.petfoodratings.net/dogtable.html

[IGandWhippetlove...]

Merrick's changed their formula so we have switched to Taste of the Wild Wetlands formula with wild duck for Lance and Cleo and Taste of the Wild Fish for the iggies.
And it costs less than Merrick's.

[leannehammer]

I feed CS to all my foster dogs and I am very happy with it. It's a very good quality food at a fraction of the price of some of the other high end foods. Heck, it's less expensive than many of the crappy foods out there.