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Rachael Ray Nutrish Dish Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe with Veggie & Fruit Blend Dry Dog Food

Dry food · adult dogs

A chicken-first dry food that's cheaper per calorie than 78% of the dry foods we've priced and denser than 22% (you feed fewer cups) — $1.36 a day for your 40-lb adult dog.

THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — data as JSON · reference dog 40 lb · updated 2026-07-12

$50.98 · 23 lb $1.36/day as of 2026-07-12 Check price →
Tell us about your dogevery number on this page updates live ↓
40 lb
For a 40-lb adult: 2¾ cupsper day $1.36per day 37 daysbag lasts passes 1 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 № RACHAE
verified 2026-07-12

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 28.9%label: 26% min typical — the median dry food is 30%
Fat 15.6%label: 14% min typical — the median dry food is 16.7%
Fiber 4.4%label: 4% max lower than 69% of dry foods
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate ≈42.2%computed anchor available once more brands disclose ash
Calcium / Phosphorus extended guarantees: Ca 1.2% · P 1% · Ω-3 1.1% 1.20 : 1ratio, as fed within the AAFCO adult range (1:1 – 2:1)

Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog

Calorie density 350 kcal/cup3540 kcal/kg lighter than 78% of dry foods (median 388) — you feed more cups
Daily serving2¾ cups
Cost per day$1.36
23-lb bag lasts37 days

Cost per 1,000 kcal: $1.38 — cheaper than 78% 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…").
 Not yet verified from label
First five ingredients (by pre-cooking weight)Chicken · Chicken Meal · Dried Peas · Brown Rice · Brewers Rice
Named animal protein first; named meals onlyYes
Legumes in first 10 (FDA DCM inquiry)2 (dried peas, 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 — Rachael Ray Nutrish, 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, 2026-07-12 · 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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Life-stage coverage not disclosedNo AAFCO nutrient-adequacy statement was found on the label for this SKU, so we cannot confirm adult-maintenance coverage.
✓
Passes our sensitive-stomach checksNamed animal protein first, and no unnamed by-products in the ingredient list.
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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.

Chicken, Chicken Meal, Dried Peas, Brown Rice, Brewers Rice, Pea Protein, Poultry Fat (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Whole Flaxseed, Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Natural Flavor, Dried Apples, Dried Carrots, Whole Dried Potato, Salt, Dicalcium Phosphate, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid (Source of Vitamin C), Niacin, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Potassium Chloride, Menhaden Fish Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Taurine, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Manganese Sulfate, Calcium Iodate), Choline Chloride, Glycerin, Sunflower Oil, Lactic Acid, Paprika Extract (Color), Brown Sugar, Zinc Sulfate, Citric Acid (preservative), Rosemary Extract

Nutritional twins

Cheaper close matches

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

IAMS™ ADVANCED HEALTH™ HEALTHY DIGESTION
28.9% protein (DM)$1.05 / 1,000 kcal24% less per 1,000 kcal
IAMS™ MINICHUNKS LAMB & RICE
27.8% protein (DM)$0.91 / 1,000 kcal34% less per 1,000 kcal
Diamond Naturals Skin & Coat All Life Stages Dog Salmon & Potato Formula
27.8% protein (DM)$0.90 / 1,000 kcal35% 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 Owns its plants

As part of the 2023 acquisition, current parent Post Holdings acquired dedicated manufacturing facilities (Bloomsburg and Meadville, PA; Lawrence, KS), indicating the parent owns and operates plants producing these pet food brands.

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Employs a qualified nutritionist Undisclosed

Source only references a vague 'team of nutrition and pet experts' with no named individual and no stated credentials (no ACVN/ECVCN Diplomate or PhD in animal nutrition). No source confirming a full-time qualified nutritionist on staff was found, so value is null.

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AAFCO feeding trials Undisclosed

No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 30 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 Post Holdings, Inc. ↗ Founded 2008 ↗ Headquarters / plant St. Louis, Missouri, USA ↗ FDA recalls on record None on record

Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: Rachael Ray Nutrish brand page →