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Instinct Original Grain-Free Recipe with Real Rabbit Dry Dog Food
Top 5 ingredients of Instinct Original Grain-Free Recipe with Real Rabbit Dry Dog Food are Rabbit, Salmon Meal, Menhaden Fish Meal, Chickpeas, and Canola Oil. According to the guaranteed analysis, we calculated the starch ratio as 23.5%.
- protein
- fat
- fiber
- moisture
- ash, assumed
- starch, derived
Ingredient Wiki
Rabbit
The clean flesh of the rabbit, used fresh.
Salmon Meal
Salmon that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Menhaden Fish Meal
A concentrated meal rendered from menhaden, a small oily fish caught specifically for oil and meal.
Chickpeas
The seed of the chickpea plant, also sold as the garbanzo bean.
Canola Oil
Oil pressed from the seed of the canola plant, a variety of rapeseed bred for low erucic acid.
Our read The ingredients
Rabbit and fish kibble with a light raw dusting
Signature feature
Raw on every piece
With the pure, real nutrition of raw on every piece
What it is Freeze-dried rabbit, ground bone included, crushed and tumbled onto the cooked kibble. It sits 19th on the list, behind the vitamin and mineral premixes.
Our grade
- Marketing
- Modest
- Meaningful
It sits behind the vitamin premix, which is a small fraction of any kibble, so the coating is a dusting. Your dog eats a cooked food with a little raw rabbit on it, not a raw diet.
Modest Real, but smaller than the pack makes it sound.
Rabbit leads, but three fish meals sit second, third and eighth. This is not a single-protein rabbit food for an allergy trial.
- 1 Rabbit
- 2 Salmon Meal
- 3 Menhaden Fish Meal
- 8 White Fish Meal
- 21 Salt
Guaranteed
Analysis
As printed on the bag, measured “as fed”
- Calories
- 4,460 kcal/kg
- Crude Protein (min.)
- 36.5%
- Crude Fat (min.)
- 20.5%
- Crude Fiber (max.)
- 3.5%
- Moisture (max.)
- 10.0%
- Starch ratio (calculated)
- 23.5%
524 kcal per cup.
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Full Ingredient
Declaration
Exactly as the bag prints it, heaviest first
Rabbit, Salmon Meal, Menhaden Fish Meal, Chickpeas, Canola Oil (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols and Citric Acid), Tapioca, Rabbit Meal, White Fish Meal (Pacific Whiting, Pacific Sole, Pacific Rockfish), Dried Tomato Pomace, Natural Flavor, Peas, Montmorillonite Clay, Carrots, Apples, Cranberries, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Niacin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Biotin), Choline Chloride, Minerals (Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide), Freeze-Dried Rabbit (including Freeze-Dried Ground Rabbit Bone), 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., Pumpkinseeds, Dried Bacillus coagulans Fermentation Product, Freeze-Dried Rabbit Liver, Freeze-Dried Rabbit Lung, Freeze-Dried Rabbit Kidney, 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.
| NUTRIENT | AS FED | DRY M. | READING |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROTEIN | 36.5% | 40.6% | HIGH |
| FAT | 20.5% | 22.8% | n/a |
| FIBER | 3.5% | 3.9% | n/a |
| CARB (EST.) | 23.5% | 26.1% | LOW |
Our read The label
A rich, high-protein food that's easy to overfeed
45%
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Is it a high-protein food?
Yes
About 41% protein on a dry basis against 30% for the average dry food we list, with starch held well below the usual level.
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Is a cup a normal cup?
No, it's dense
524 kcal a cup, about 33% above the average dry food we list. Coming from a typical kibble, cut the scoop or weight creeps up.
- Feed it to
- Active adults, lean dogs that need dense calories, and owners who want high protein without grain.
- Skip it for
- Large-breed puppies, which the bag excludes, dogs with pancreatitis or fat sensitivity, and dogs allergic to fish.
Daily portion calculator
Calculated from the resting energy formula vets use and this food’s actual calorie density (524 kcal per cup). A starting point to adjust from, not a prescription.
2 FDA Recalls On Record
Instinct® Raw Chicken Formula for dogs Matched by brand. The notice lists the exact products and lots.
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
Other Flavors
Protein on a dry matter basis, read the same way.
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Other kibble recipes with the closest protein, fat and starch as fed, the way the bag prints them. Prescription diets are left out.
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