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Frontrunner Ancient Grains Chicken, Oats & Turkey Recipe for Dogs

Dry food · adult dogs

A formulated-to-meet, deboned-first dry food that's cheaper per calorie than 67% of the dry foods we've priced and denser than 83% (you feed fewer cups) — $1.66 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 № NULO-F
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 30%label: 27% min typical — the median dry food is 30%
Fat 17.8%label: 16% min higher than 70% of dry foods
Fiber 4.4%label: 4% max lower than 69% of dry foods
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate ≈38.9%computed anchor available once more brands disclose ash
Calcium / Phosphorus extended guarantees: Ca 1.1% · P 0.9% · Ω-3 1.1% 1.22 : 1ratio, as fed within the AAFCO adult range (1:1 – 2:1)

Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog

Calorie density 431 kcal/cup3654 kcal/kg denser than 83% of dry foods (median 388) — you feed fewer cups
Daily serving2¼ cups
Cost per day$1.66
25-lb bag lasts42 days

Cost per 1,000 kcal: $1.69 — cheaper than 67% 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 · maintenance
First five ingredients (by pre-cooking weight)Deboned Chicken · Chicken Meal · Oats · Barley · Brown Rice
Named animal protein first; named meals onlyYes
Legumes in first 10 (FDA DCM inquiry)None
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 — Nulo, since 2023None on record
ManufacturerNot confirmed from label
Label transparency 11 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.

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Validated for adult dogsAAFCO statement covers adult maintenance.
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Passes our sensitive-stomach checksNamed animal protein first ✓ · no unnamed by-products ✓.
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Contains chickenNot selected as a concern for your dog — shown here for reference.

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, Oats, Barley, Brown Rice, Turkey Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols & Citric Acid), Ground Flaxseed, Deboned Turkey, Natural Flavor, Millet, Ground Miscanthus Grass, Brewers Dried Yeast, Dried Egg Product, Dried Blueberries, Dried Apples, Dried Chicory Root, Salt, DL-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, Zinc Proteinate, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Niacin Supplement, Ferrous Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin A Supplement, Manganese Proteinate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Manganous Oxide, Biotin, Dried Bacillus coagulans Fermentation Product, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Sodium Selenite, Calcium Iodate, Rosemary Extract