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Wild-Caught Salmon Grain-Free Dog Kibble

Dry food · all dogs

A formulated-to-meet, wild-caught-first dry food that's cheaper per calorie than 19% of the dry foods we've priced and denser than 78% (you feed fewer cups) — $2.74 a day for your 40-lb adult dog.

THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — data as JSON · reference dog 40 lb · updated 2026-07-17

$99.99 · 22 lb $2.74/day as of 2026-07-17 Check price →
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40 lb
For a 40-lb adult: 2¼ cupsper day $2.74per day 36 daysbag lasts passes 2 fit checks ↓

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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 № OPEN-F
verified 2026-07-17

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 33.3%label: 30% min higher than 75% of dry foods
Fat 15.6%label: 14% min typical — the median dry food is 16.7%
Fiber 5%label: 4.5% max typical — the median dry food is 5.4%
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate ≈37.2%computed anchor available once more brands disclose ash
Calcium / Phosphorus extended guarantees: Ca 1.2% · P 1% · DHA 0.11% · Ω-3 0.4% 1.20 : 1ratio, as fed within the AAFCO adult range (1:1 – 2:1)

Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog

Calorie density 420 kcal/cup3600 kcal/kg denser than 78% of dry foods (median 388) — you feed fewer cups
Daily serving2¼ cups
Cost per day$2.74
22-lb bag lasts36 days

Cost per 1,000 kcal: $2.78 — cheaper than 19% 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 · all_life_stages
First five ingredients (by pre-cooking weight)Wild-Caught Pacific Salmon · Garbanzo Beans (Chickpeas) · Ocean Whitefish Meal · Field Peas · Herring Meal
Named animal protein first; named meals onlyYes
Legumes in first 10 (FDA DCM inquiry)4 (garbanzo beans (chickpeas), field peas, red lentils, green lentils)
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 — Open Farm, since 2023None on record
ManufacturerNot confirmed from label
Label transparency 12 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, 2026-07-17 · 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, 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.

Wild-Caught Pacific Salmon, Garbanzo Beans (Chickpeas), Ocean Whitefish Meal, Field Peas, Herring Meal, Red Lentils, Coconut Oil, Green Lentils, Coconut Meal, Pumpkin, Natural Flavor (yeast), Carrots, Sunflower Oil, Apples, Salt, Cranberries, Flaxseed, Dried Chicory Root, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Niacin Supplement, D-calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Salmon Oil, Sun Cured Alfalfa, Dicalcium Phosphate, Choline Chloride, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Selenium Yeast, Calcium Iodate, Taurine, Mixed Tocopherols (natural preservative), Cinnamon, Turmeric, Rosemary Extract

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

Nutritional twins

Cheaper close matches

Verified foods with a closely matching label at a meaningfully lower cost per 1,000 kcal.

Canidae Pure Real Salmon & Sweet Potato Recipe
33.3% protein (DM)$1.89 / 1,000 kcal32% less per 1,000 kcal
Taste of the Wild Ancient Stream Canine Recipe with Smoke-Flavored Salmon
33.3% protein (DM)$1.28 / 1,000 kcal54% less per 1,000 kcal
Taste of the Wild PREY Turkey Recipe for Dogs
33.3% protein (DM)$1.59 / 1,000 kcal43% less per 1,000 kcal

Label-composition matches only: same species, form, and growth stage; same primary protein where both are known; grain-free preserved; protein within 4 points and fat within 4 points, and estimated carbs within 8 points, on a dry-matter basis. Not a medical or quality recommendation.

The maker

Who makes this — and how they back it up

The four questions the WSAVA nutrition guidelines tell you to ask a pet-food company. Every answer is sourced or marked as an undisclosed gap — never guessed. This is the "is it made competently?" axis that star-rating sites skip.

Owns its manufacturing Co-packed

Uses third-party co-manufacturing partners; R&D, formulation and distribution are in-house in Toronto but production is outsourced.

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Employs a qualified nutritionist Yes — sourced

Dr. Moran Tal-Gavriel is Open Farm's Head of Veterinary Nutrition (in-house). 'Dip. ECVCN' = Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition.

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AAFCO feeding trials Undisclosed

No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 37 labels we’ve verified for this brand, and no company-wide claim was found either. Most pet foods are only "formulated to meet" AAFCO profiles (a paper calculation) rather than fed to real animals in trials — this is common, not necessarily a red flag.

Peer-reviewed research None found

A reproducible PubMed search (author-affiliation field, animal/pet-domain filtered) returns zero indexed papers for this brand name. Not proof no research exists — only that none is PubMed-indexed under this exact name.

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Parent company Open Farm Inc. (independent) ↗ Founded 2014 ↗ Headquarters / plant Toronto, Ontario, Canada ↗ FDA recalls on record None on record

Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: Open Farm brand page →