Nulo
Editor ingredient insight
Nulo Frontrunner Beef, Barley & Lamb starts with beef but quickly adds chicken meal, oats, barley, brown rice, turkey meal, and chicken fat. I would use it for mixed-protein tolerant dogs, not for chicken or grain avoidance.
Logic-based verdict
This food offers a stable basic protein structure.
Fresh-meat led with no plant protein support
Animal protein
Deboned Beef (#1), Chicken Meal (#2), Turkey Meal (#6), Deboned Lamb (#9), Dried Egg Product (#15)
It clears the protein floor without plant-protein boosting.
This is the kind of structure a premium food should have.
Chicory
Gut support ingredient
Taurine
Heart support ingredient
Probiotics
Gut support ingredient
Omega-3
Skin and joint support ingredient
Omega-6
Skin and coat support ingredient
Vitamin E
Antioxidant and skin support ingredient
Ingredient grade
Grade B
Top ingredient profile
Calcium
1.1%
Phosphorus
0.9%
Protein position, fat position, and calorie density position are relative to foods in the same processing type cohort.
The first and second ingredients are both animal-based, so baseline protein quality stays stable. A whole-grain ingredient appears in the third slot, so this reads more like a mixed recipe than a fully animal-led one.
Nutritional strengths
What still needs work
Alternative foods
Exact protein-type matches come first, then close protein-family matches fill the comparison.
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Protein
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Protein
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Protein
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For guardians who want a higher ingredient and disclosure bar
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Protein
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Label score
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Grade
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Protein
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Other recipes from the same brand
Other recipes from the same brand with a different purpose or feeding target.
Founded in 2009 in the United States. The currently searched public sources are not enough to make a confident recall or withdrawal call for this brand.
The top ingredients give this recipe a strong first protein read, so the ingredient section starts from a favorable position.
This review score combines ingredient composition, nutrient disclosure, manufacturing trust, and core nutrient caution signals.
Core guaranteed analysis is usable, but deeper rows still need a more cautious read.
No major red flag jumps out first, though undisclosed rows still define the limits of this safety read.
Detailed nutrition is visible, but not at a product-level traceability standard.
Final word
This is a credible shortlist food, but the personalized step is where the final order should be decided.