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Spot & Tango Cod + Salmon
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
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 2026-07-11
Composition — dry-matter basis
why dry matter
Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog
No cost per 1,000 kcal yet: we haven't matched this food to a current Amazon listing. Serving math uses standard veterinary energy formulas — see the formula.
Standards & ingredients
what this means
why unknown
Safety
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.
The source material
The full ingredient list
Every flag above is computed from this list. Why order is by pre-cooking weight, and how splitting bends it →
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
5 ingredients in this list are ones we hold sourced evidence on , and none of them is contested in the veterinary literature.
- Rosemary extract · ingredient 12Well supportedA plant-derived natural antioxidant (active compounds carnosic acid and carnosol) used to slow fat oxidation, frequently chosen as an alternative to synthetic preservatives. It is an authorized food antioxidant in the EU (E 392); JECFA established a temporary acceptable daily intake for rosemary extract expressed as carnosic acid plus carnosol.
- Mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E) · ingredient 15Well supportedA blend of vitamin E forms (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta-tocopherol) used as a natural-source antioxidant to slow fat rancidity, commonly chosen as an alternative to synthetic preservatives. EFSA concluded that tocopherol-rich extracts are safe for all animal species and the consumer and are efficacious antioxidants in feed.
- Sweet potato · ingredient 2NeutralA starchy root used as a carbohydrate source and a source of fiber and beta-carotene in grain-free foods (a vegetable, not a cereal grain). The FDA's 2018 DCM investigation grouped 'potatoes (including sweet potatoes)' within its ingredients of interest, but the reported cases were dominated by pulses and white potato, and evidence isolating sweet potato specifically is limited.
- Tapioca · ingredient 4NeutralA nearly pure starch extracted from the cassava root, used as a carbohydrate base and binder in grain-free foods (it is a root starch, not a cereal grain). Because it is almost entirely starch with little protein, tapioca contributes essentially no amino acids and is not implicated in the taurine hypothesis; it was not a highlighted ingredient in the FDA's DCM investigation, which focused on pulses and potatoes.
- Flaxseed (ALA omega-3) · ingredient 7NeutralA plant source of the short-chain omega-3 ALA. Dogs convert ALA to the long-chain omega-3s inefficiently: a controlled feeding study (Dunbar 2010) found flaxseed raised serum EPA but produced no measurable DHA.
The maker
Who makes this — and how they back it up
The five 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.
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.'
source →We could not confirm this from a public source.
source →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.
Own site says 'Each batch is 3rd-party tested for safety and quality' (https://spotandtango.com/wsava) but gives no detail on what is tested, so treated as vague. Searched spotandtango.com/wsava, /faq, blog AAFCO posts.
PubMed lists no animal or pet paper with Spot & Tango in an author address. Not proof no research exists — only that none is indexed under that company name.
source →Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: Spot & Tango brand page →