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This is a website recommended by ACVN board certified vet nutritionist Dr. Rebecca Remillard
https://www.vetmed.umn.edu/centers-programs/minnesota-urolith-center/recommendations

Also these are some of her comments on using an ingredient list to evaluate the quality of a pet food.

“In summary, despite the blather all over the web about how to evaluate a pet food by the label is just pure BS. This race to get meat listed as the first ingredient and ‘grain free’ has the pet food industry laughing all the way to the bank and those self-appointed pet food experts with their own “rating system” are simply perpetuating misinformation and adding to the confusion.”

“Because in the end, any one ingredient, no matter how defined, does vary widely in nutrient content. The definitions are much too vague to “rate” any one ingredient and so no one can rate the entire ingredient list and say that it represents the entire pet food product. IF the information in the building blocks is vague and lacks detail, how can that poor quality information suddenly become a fine tuned instrument for “rating” the whole pet food product? It can’t and truth is it was NEVER intended by AAFCO that the ingredient list could be used to ‘rate’ pet foods. It is a very poor tool. The whole rating game online and in pet journals has no true value to the individual pet owner trying to do best by their dog or cat.”

“You cannot in any way “assess” the ingredients by reading the label….
Only the manufacturer can do that at the time they decided to accept or reject the ingredient delivery.
So you have to investigate manufacturers and not ingredient lists.”

“There are no bad ingredients – there is bad information on the web for sure.
There are no particularly good or bad ingredients but there are well made and poorly made dog foods.
There is NO way to rate a dog food based on the ingredients list despite the number of self-proclaimed dog food rating web sites readily doling our advice to anyone who will listen.”

You can even ask her questions on petdiets.com, the the “Ask the Nutritionist” section about your concerns regarding Royal Canin