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BLUE BUFFALO Life Protection Formula Adult Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 30-lb bag
UPC 859610000111 · owner unresolved
Will my dog eat it?
FindingOf the 34 complaints about this product, 9 describe a dog that refused it.
Refusal is not the largest cause of what goes wrong here — the most common complaint is instead “too brief to classify”.
How we counted this
We read 400 reviews carrying written text. 35 are one or two stars; 1 of those are delivery failures with no product complaint and are excluded here. That leaves 34 complaints about the product — the denominator above. Never the number of buyers, which we do not know.
Will it do anything, and by when?
Not checkedWe could not check this product's ingredients against a published canine dose range.
Our dose library covers glucosamine, chondroitin and MSM. Everything else is unchecked — a limit of the library, not a verdict on the ingredient.
(1–2 stars)
— not the product
about the product
to eat it
Compared against the 3 foods we have measured. Refusal rates differ by category — kibble and joint chews are not the same question — so we compare like with like where we have enough products to, and say when we do not.
What is actually in it
Label readThe published guaranteed analysis declares 9 values.
Percentages are as printed. A guaranteed analysis states protein and fat as MINIMUMS and fibre and moisture as MAXIMUMS, so the printed numbers are floors and ceilings, not the actual content.
| Declared | Amount |
|---|---|
| Guaranteed Analysis Crude Protein | 24.0% min |
| Crude Fat | 14.0% min |
| Crude Fiber | 5.0% max |
| Moisture | 10.0% max |
| Calcium | 1.0% min |
| Phosphorus | 0.7% min |
| Omega 3 Fatty Acids | 0.5% min |
| Omega 6 Fatty Acids | 3.0% min |
| Glucosamine | 400 mg |
What it costs to get the dose
Not comparableListed at $74.98, but we could not turn that into a cost per serving.
Without the feeding directions and the pack size in the same place, a shelf price is not a comparison. We would rather leave it blank than imply one.
Is the rating real?
Checked1 of this product's 35 worst reviews are about delivery, not the product.
Removing them raises the score.
Both numbers are shown deliberately. The retailer's rating is what you see everywhere else.
How we counted this
Every one- and two-star review in the sample is classified by what it complains about. Delivery-only complaints are removed and the mean recalculated. The sample is the retailer's most-helpful ordering, which is not random.
Who actually owns this brand
Not foundWe could not resolve an exact trademark owner for Blue Buffalo in the USPTO register.
The search requires an exact wordmark match on goods that cover pet products. A near miss is not a match, so we report nothing rather than the closest thing we found.
Origin, recalls and who makes it
Partly checkedWe could not verify manufacturing origin or recall history for this product.
No origin claim was readable on the listing. Our FDA adverse-event search returned nothing, which means our search came up empty — not that no events exist.
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Computed from 400 text reviews by tools/analyze_reviews.py, the same code used on every record including our own. GTIN 859610000111 Ownership from the USPTO register.