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Taste of the Wild PREY Turkey Recipe for Dogs

Dry food · all dogs

A formulated-to-meet, turkey-first dry food that's cheaper per calorie than 71% of the dry foods we've priced and denser than 75% (you feed fewer cups) — $1.56 a day for your 40-lb adult dog.

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

$65.99 · 25 lb $1.56/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: 2¼ cupsper day $1.56per day 42 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 № TASTE-
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 33.3%label: 30% min higher than 75% of dry foods
Fat 16.7%label: 15% min typical — the median dry food is 16.7%
Fiber 5.6%label: 5% max typical — the median dry food is 5.4%
Est. carbohydrates ash not disclosed → 8% assumed, so this is an estimate ≈35.6%computed anchor available once more brands disclose ash
Calcium / Phosphorus extended guarantees: DHA 0.05% · Ω-3 0.5% Not yet verifiedcalcium/phosphorus no ratio to anchor

Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog

Calorie density 416 kcal/cup3670 kcal/kg denser than 75% of dry foods (median 388) — you feed fewer cups
Daily serving2¼ cups
Cost per day$1.56
25-lb bag lasts42 days

Cost per 1,000 kcal: $1.59 — cheaper than 71% 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)Turkey · Lentils · Dried Tomato Pomace · Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols) · Natural Flavor
Named animal protein first; named meals onlyYes
Legumes in first 10 (FDA DCM inquiry)1 (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.
None — no fish meal in this recipe

Safety

FDA recalls — Taste of the Wild, 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.

Validated for adult dogsAAFCO statement covers adult maintenance.
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.

Turkey, Lentils, Dried Tomato Pomace, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), Natural Flavor, Dicalcium Phosphate, Salmon Oil (a source of DHA), Salt, DL-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Taurine, L-Carnitine, Dried Lactobacillus Plantarum Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium Animalis Fermentation Product, Vitamin E Supplement, Iron Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Thiamine Mononitrate, Manganese Proteinate, Vitamin A Supplement, Biotin, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid

Nutritional twins

Cheaper close matches

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

31.8% protein (DM)$1.12 / 1,000 kcal29% less per 1,000 kcal
30.0% protein (DM)$1.20 / 1,000 kcal24% less per 1,000 kcal
29.5% protein (DM)$1.06 / 1,000 kcal33% 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

Made in Diamond-owned plants (two in California, plus Missouri, Arkansas, South Carolina, Kansas).

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Employs a qualified nutritionist Undisclosed

Same Diamond Pet Foods formulation program; no named ACVN/ECVCN Diplomate or PhD nutritionist disclosed. Null.

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AAFCO feeding trials Undisclosed

No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 39 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 Diamond Pet Foods (Schell & Kampeter, Inc.) Founded 2007 Headquarters / plant Meta, Missouri, USA FDA recalls on record 1 on record

Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: Taste of the Wild brand page →