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The Farmer's Dog Pork Recipe
A pork-first fresh food from The Farmer's Dog. 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 fresh food, so anchors are omitted below rather than compared across forms.
verified 2026-07-11
Composition — dry-matter basis
why dry matter
We only publish numbers verified from official label sources; we haven't verified this label yet. The guaranteed analysis exists on the bag — it just isn't in our verified record so far.
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 (secondary) · 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 →
Pork, Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, Green Beans, Cauliflower, Pork Liver, TFD Nutrient Blend, Salmon Oil
3 ingredients in this list are ones we hold sourced evidence on , and 1 of them is genuinely contested rather than merely unpopular online.
- Potato · ingredient 3ContestedA starchy tuber used as the carbohydrate base in many grain-free foods (it is a vegetable, not a cereal grain). The FDA's open 2018 investigation into diet-associated canine DCM listed potatoes 'in various forms' as main ingredients of interest alongside pulses such as peas and lentils.
- Fish oil (EPA + DHA omega-3) · ingredient 8Well supportedMarine-source omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) from fish oil. A randomized, double-blinded controlled trial (Roush 2010) found improved weight-bearing in dogs with osteoarthritis, and a 2022 meta-analysis identified clear clinical analgesic efficacy for omega-3-enriched diets and supplements.
- 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.
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.
Contrary report also notes founders 'spoke with over 200 factories before finding one that would manufacture for The Farmer's Dog' — uses contract manufacturer(s), not its own owned plant.
source →WebSearch results (brand's own digest pages, which returned 403 on fetch) named on-staff nutritionists such as Rae Sires DVM DACVIM(Nutrition), Renee Streeter DVM DACVIM(Nutrition), and Joseph Wakshlag DVM PhD DACVIM(Nutrition), but I could not fetch a page naming them, so names are unverified by a primary fetch.
source →says: some recipes (multiple, not all). Also cites a Cornell long-term feeding study going beyond AAFCO trial design. None of the 0 AAFCO statements we read on its labels says "animal feeding tests".
source →covers: finished-product nutrient analysis, finished-product safety (pathogen) testing. Same page also says 'Every one of our ingredients is inspected and tested by a third-party laboratory' (ingredient testing).
source →2 PubMed papers (animal/pet filtered) list The Farmer's Dog in an author address; we checked 2 and 2 really name the company. A floor, not a total.
source →Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: The Farmer's Dog brand page →