Reading a Dog Food Label: What the Numbers Mean
The guaranteed analysis on a dog food bag looks like a wall of percentages. It is actually a quick read once you know the shape of it: protein and fat are listed as minimums, fiber and moisture as maximums, and calories usually per cup. Higher moisture means fewer nutrients per gram; higher protein is not automatically better for every dog.
The Sniff and Shift App does the math for you. Log a meal from our Dog Food Comparison chart and the calories and macros fill in automatically, tracked against your dog's weight goal on a car-gauge dashboard. It is a tracking aid, not medical advice, but it makes the label legible. And when you want a clean, honest option, our single-ingredient treats keep the ingredient list to exactly one thing.
The Sniff and Shift App launches this August. join the pit crew for launch-day alerts, and stock up on single-ingredient treats for the co-pilot in the meantime.
If you want the label numbers for two specific foods next to each other, the dog food comparison tool pulls them from the maker's own pages, with a source link on every row.
