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Pure Goodness Puppy Salmon & Sweet Potato Recipe

Dry food · puppy dogs

A formulated-to-meet, salmon-first dry food that's cheaper per calorie than 41% of the dry foods we've priced and denser than 100% (you feed fewer cups) — $2.04 a day for your 40-lb adult dog.

THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — data as JSON · reference dog 40 lb · updated 2026-07-11

Your dogupdates every number on this page
40 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 494 dry foods we've verified.

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

Composition — dry-matter basis

why dry matter
Moisture hides the real recipe: kibble is ~10% water, canned food ~78%. 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 32.6%label: 30% min higher than 70% of dry foods
Fat 16.3%label: 15% min typical — the median dry food is 16.7%
Fiber 4.9%label: 4.5% max typical — the median dry food is 5.4%
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate ≈37.5%computed anchor available once more brands disclose ash
Calcium / Phosphorus extended guarantees: DHA 0.04% · Ω-3 1.3% Not disclosedcalcium/phosphorus no ratio to anchor

Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog

Calorie density 576.4 kcal/cup3621 kcal/kg denser than 100% of dry foods (median 388) — you feed fewer cups
Daily serving1¾ cups
Cost per day$2.04
22-lb bag lasts36 days

Cost per 1,000 kcal: $2.07 — cheaper than 41% of the 360 dry foods we've priced (median $1.93). 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 dogs in AAFCO-procedure trials ("Animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate…").
 Formulated to meet · growth
First five ingredients (by pre-cooking weight)Salmon · Salmon Meal · Lentils · Peas · Chickpeas
Named animal protein first; named meals onlyYes
Legumes in first 10 (FDA DCM inquiry)3 (lentils, peas, chickpeas)
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.
 Can't be determined from label

Safety

FDA recalls — Canidae, since 2023None on record
ManufacturerNot confirmed from label
Label transparency 10 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)· price: Amazon, 2026-07-11 · anchors: 494 verified dry dog foods (360 priced) · how to read this label

The fit

For your dog, specifically

Checked for a 40-lb adult with a sensitive stomach — the same published criteria our finder uses. Change your dog above and these update.

✕
Not validated for adult maintenanceThe AAFCO statement on file covers growth only.
✓
Passes our sensitive-stomach checksNamed animal protein first, and no unnamed by-products in the ingredient list.
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Chicken-free recipeNot selected for your dog — but relevant if chicken sensitivity ever comes up.

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.

Salmon, Salmon Meal, Lentils, Peas, Chickpeas, Canola Oil, Sweet Potato, Sardine Meal, Flaxseed, Dried Yeast, Natural Flavor, Threonine, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Salmon Oil, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Vitamin E Supplement, Tryptophan, Mixed Tocopherols, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Niacin Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin A Supplement, Copper Proteinate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Sodium Selenite, Thiamine Mononitrate, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Dried Lactobacillus Casei Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Plantarum Fermentation Product, Green Tea Extract, Rosemary Extract

Wet ingredients like fresh salmon shrink once cooked — which is why named meals appearing high on the list matter: they keep meaningful animal protein after moisture is removed.