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Cod + Salmon

Air-dried food · all dogs

A formulated-to-meet, cod-first air-dried food from Spot & Tango. Pricing and/or calorie data haven't been independently confirmed for this SKU yet, so cost-per-day isn't shown.

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

≈ $7.50/day estimate — brand's published pricing Order direct →
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40 lb
For a 40-lb adult: not pricedper day —bag 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. Corpus dot-anchors currently cover dry food only — this is a air-dried food, so anchors are omitted below rather than compared across forms.

Verified LabelThe standardized pet-food panel
VPFD № SPOT-A
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 28.4%label: 27% min no corpus anchor for this food form
Fat 15.8%label: 15% min no corpus anchor for this food form
Fiber 4.2%label: 4% max no corpus anchor for this food form
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate ≈43.2%computed no corpus anchor for this food form
Calcium / Phosphorus extended guarantees: none verified yet Not yet verifiedcalcium/phosphorus no ratio to anchor

Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog

Calorie density 4193 kcal/kgper-serving value not disclosed no corpus anchor for this food form
Daily serving—
Cost per day—
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Cost per 1,000 kcal not available yet — this SKU isn't price-matched to a current retail listing. 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)Cod · Sweet Potatoes · Sunflower Seeds · Tapioca · Salmon
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 — Spot & Tango, since 2023None on record
ManufacturerNot confirmed from label
Label transparency 7 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: 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.

Cod, Sweet Potatoes, Sunflower Seeds, Tapioca, Salmon, Carrots, S&T Nutrient Blend (Dicalcium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, Flaxseed Oil, L-Threonine, L-Tryptophan, Zinc Proteinate, Iron Chelate, Vitamin E Supplement, Selenium Yeast, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Mineral Oil, Silicon Dioxide, Folic Acid, Calcium Pantothenate, Cobalamin, Riboflavin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Niacin, Ascorbic Acid), Pumpkin, Spinach, Parsley, Salt, Rosemary, Strawberries, Dried Kelp, Mixed Tocopherols

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 Mixed

Spot & Tango owns and operates its own ~70,000 sq ft manufacturing facility (Upper Macungie Township / Allentown, PA) where its UnKibble dry line is produced; the article implies wet food is made elsewhere (co-packed), hence 'mixed.' Same article: it 'cut the ribbon on a new, nearly 70,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Upper Macungie Township.'

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Employs a qualified nutritionist Undisclosed

The fetched FAQ only references 'vets and veterinary nutritionists' generically with no name or credential (no DACVN/PhD identified). Per the rules, unnamed/uncredentialed 'nutritionists' => value=null. No fetched source names a board-certified veterinary nutritionist or PhD animal nutritionist on staff.

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AAFCO feeding trials Undisclosed

No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 4 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 Spot & Tango (independent, venture-backed; founder Russell Breuer) ↗ Founded 2018 ↗ Headquarters / plant New York, NY ↗ FDA recalls on record None on record

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