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BLUE True Solutions Digestive Care Chicken & Barley Recipe

Dry food · adult cats

A formulated-to-meet, deboned-first dry food from Blue Buffalo, denser per cup than 59% of the dry cat foods we've verified. Cat-food pricing isn't in our corpus yet, so cost-per-day isn't shown — the composition numbers below are fully verified.

THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — data as JSON · reference cat 10 lb · updated 2026-07-11

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10 lb

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The evidence

The Verified Label

Every food on this site gets this exact panel — same fields, same order, sourced from the official label — so brands finally become comparable. Dots show where this food sits among all 36 dry cat foods we've verified.

Verified LabelThe standardized pet-food panel
VPFD № BLUE-B
verified 2026-07-11

Composition — dry-matter basis

why dry matter
Moisture hides the real recipe: dry food is ~5-10% water, wet food ~75-82%. Removing water puts every food on one scale, so these are the only nutrition numbers that can be compared across foods. As-fed label values shown small.
Protein 37.4%label: 34% min typical — the median dry cat food is 37.1%
Fat 17.6%label: 16% min no corpus anchor for fat yet
Fiber 4.4%label: 4% max typical — the median dry cat food is 4.4%
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate ≈31.9%diabetic-check target <10% typical — the median dry cat food is 32.6%
Magnesium as fed: not disclosed
why 0.12% DM
A commonly cited veterinary target for helping manage struvite-crystal (urinary) risk in cats is magnesium under roughly 0.12% on a dry-matter basis. This is a general, label-checkable guideline — not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for your vet, especially for cats with a history of urinary issues.
 Not disclosedmagnesium no threshold to check — not disclosed on this label
Ash 8% assumed — not disclosed on label 8%as used in carb estimate no corpus anchor for ash yet

Calories & cost — for your 10-lb adult cat

Calorie density 419 kcal/cup3749 kcal/kg typical — the median dry cat food is 395.5 (median 395.5)
Daily serving½ cups
Cost per day—
3.5-lb bag lasts22 days

Cost per 1,000 kcal not available yet — cat food isn't price-matched to a retail listing in our corpus yet (dog food is; cat is next). Serving math uses standard veterinary energy formulas — see the formula.

Standards & ingredients

AAFCO statement
what this means
Two kinds of AAFCO claims exist. Most foods are only "formulated to meet" nutrient profiles — a paper calculation. A smaller set carry the stronger claim: fed to real cats in AAFCO-procedure trials ("Animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate…").
 Formulated to meet · maintenance
First five ingredients (by pre-cooking weight)Deboned Chicken · Chicken Meal · Brown Rice · Pea Protein · Barley
Named animal protein first; named meals onlyYes
Legumes in first 10 (FDA DCM inquiry)1 (pea protein)
BHA / BHT preservativesNone on label
Carrageenan (thickener)None
Ethoxyquin
why unknown
When a fish-meal supplier adds ethoxyquin, U.S. rules don't require it on the finished label — so no label can prove its absence for recipes containing fish meal. We report this as a gap rather than guessing.
 None — no fish meal in this recipe

Safety

FDA recalls — Blue Buffalo, since 20235 on record — see recall history
ManufacturerNot confirmed from label
Label transparency 9 of 15 standard fields
Green = verified favorable · amber = gap in the record · red = verified unfavorable · gray = not disclosed / neutral fact.
Source: official label source (official) · anchors: 36 verified dry cat foods · how to read this label

The fit

For your cat, specifically

Checked for a 10-lb adult cat with urinary health + a low-carb goal — the same published criteria our finder uses. Change your cat above and these update.

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Validated for adult catsAAFCO statement covers adult maintenance.
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Urinary fit — can't assessMagnesium is not stated on this label, so we cannot check it against the magnesium threshold vets commonly use for struvite-stone risk management.
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Fiber 4.4% DMNot selected as a concern for your cat — shown here for reference.
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Sensitive stomachNot selected for your cat — but shown here for reference.
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Contains chickenNot selected as a concern for your cat — shown here for reference.
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Too many estimated carbs for a low-carb target≈31.9% carbohydrate (dry-matter, estimated) is over the ~10% DM target some vets use for diabetic cats. Estimate only — not a lab measurement. See lower-carb options →

The source material

The full ingredient list

Every flag on the Verified Label is computed from this list. Ingredients are ordered by pre-cooking weight — the first five carry the most information.

Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Brown Rice, Pea Protein, Barley, Dried Egg Product, Oatmeal, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Potato Starch, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Flaxseed (source of Omega 3 and 6 Fatty Acids), Natural Flavor, Dried Tomato Pomace, Peas, Calcium Chloride, Choline Chloride, DL-Methionine, Calcium Sulfate, L-Threonine, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, Potatoes, Hydrolyzed Yeast, Fructooligosaccharides, Potassium Sulfate, Taurine, Direct Dehydrated Alfalfa Pellets, Pea Fiber, Alfalfa Nutrient Concentrate, Salt, Vitamin E Supplement, preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), L-Tryptophan, Vegetable Juice for color, Ferrous Sulfate, Niacin (Vitamin B3), Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Zinc Sulfate, Blueberries, Cranberries, Barley Grass, Parsley, Turmeric, Dried Kelp, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Copper Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Biotin (Vitamin B7), L-Lysine, Vitamin A Supplement, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Dried Yeast, Dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product, Dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, Dried Aspergillus niger fermentation extract, Dried Trichoderma longibrachiatum fermentation extract, Dried Bacillus subtilis fermentation extract, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid (Vitamin B9), Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Oil of Rosemary