ACANA + Wholesome Grains Red Meat Recipe Dry Dog Food

Dry food for dogs · All life stages · by Acana

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What to watch for

• Salt Low risk
  Salt supplies sodium and chloride, which dogs need. Pet foods use small amounts; high salt is mainly a concern for dogs with heart or kidney disease.
• Dried kelp Low risk
  Seaweed that supplies iodine and trace minerals. Too much kelp can push iodine too high, so it should be a minor ingredient.
• Copper sulfate Low risk
  A source of copper, an essential trace mineral. Some breeds accumulate copper in the liver, and vets have raised concern that some dog foods supply more than dogs need.

What it does well

• High protein 30.7%
  30% or more on a dry-matter basis.

Ingredients

Like heritage red meats from the Appalachian ranching country, free run poultry and eggs, wild caught fish from New England, whole fruits and vegetables like Bartlett pears and butternut squash, and locally grown botanicals from Kentucky, ACANA believes the healthiest foods are made here at home in Kentucky, never outsourced. ACANA nourishes your pet's instinct for real, fresh meats and high quality grain-free carbohydrates. It's everything Mother Nature intended, and nothing she did not. Ingredients Beef, deboned pork, beef meal, oat groats, whole sorghum, whole millet, pork meal, whole oats, beef fat, deboned lamb, fish oil, ground miscanthus grass, natural pork flavor, beef cartilage, beef liver, pork liver, pork kidney, beef tripe, beef kidney, whole butternut squash, whole pumpkin, salt, potassium chloride, taurine, choline chloride, vitamin E supplement, dried kelp, zinc proteinate, mixed tocopherols (preservative), vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin A acetate, freeze-dried beef liver, freeze-dried pork liver, freeze-dried lamb liver, copper proteinate, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, chicory, turmeric, sarsaparilla, althea root, rose hips, juniper berries, citric acid (preservative), rosemary extract, dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried bifidobacterium animalis fermentation product, dried lactobacillus casei fermentation product

Guaranteed analysis

What the label cannot tell you

• Ingredient order is by weight before cooking; fresh meat counts water.
• We could not find the AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement for this product. Scan the bag to confirm it is complete and balanced.

Sizes and barcodes

• ACANA + Wholesome Grains Red Meat Recipe Dry Dog Food - 4-lb UPC 064992508401
• ACANA + Wholesome Grains Red Meat Recipe Dry Dog Food - 22.5-lb UPC 064992508227

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Informational, not veterinary advice. The score is our opinion of a food, built from the facts on its label with our published method. No brand pays to rank higher. Recipes change: check the bag you have, or scan it in the app.

Score version 2026.11.6 · Page updated 2026-11-03