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What is the dinner rule for dog food?
Elnora Reichel
2025-08-20 07:54:39
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The 25% “Dinner” Rule applies when the named ingredients make up at least 25% of the product, but less than 95%, and a descriptive term must be included in the name, such as “Dinner”, “Nuggets”, or “Formula”. For example, if you see a name like “Salmon Formula for Dogs” you know that at least one fourth of the product comes from salmon. To qualify for the 25% Rule a descriptive term must be included in the name. If two ingredients are included in the name they must together total 25%… so long as neither accounts for less than 3%. The manufacturer can include both the animal and non-animal ingredients together in the 25% total. But watch out… Since a name like “Beef Dinner for Dogs” only requires that a fourth of the product be beef, the meat component may actually occupy the third or fourth position on the ingredients list.
Carolina Cremin
2025-08-08 01:22:32
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For puppies and young dogs, our general rule of thumb is to follow your breeder’s advice in the first instance. However, if your breeder has not provided any specific guidance, then we normally suggest feeding 4 meals per day until 4 months of age, then move onto 3 meals per day until 6 months of age, followed by 2 meals per day from then on. For adult dogs we normally suggest remaining with a two meal per-day feeding strategy. This works well with most owners’ daily routines and helps ensure a more consistent level of nutrients in the blood. We normally suggest feeding at least 1 hour before activity, although ideally longer. A good strategy to use is to feed a morning meal and an evening meal. Most owners will choose to split their dog’s daily intake equally between both meals and have great success with this. Although if you find your dog has firm stools in the morning, but looser stools as the day goes on, then you may find another technique more beneficial. For some owners, feeding 1/3rd of their dog’s daily intake in the morning and 2/3rds of their daily intake in the evening before a period of rest, is a beneficial method as it gives the dog all night to digest the majority.
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Manuel Maggio
2025-08-08 01:07:16
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If the product name has the word “Dinner” in it, then the label implies that at least 25 percent of the named ingredient is present in the diet but is not greater than 95 percent of the diet by weight excluding water. If the meal does include water, then the named ingredient must make up just 10 percent of the meal’s weight. Other euphemisms for “Dinner” could be “Platter,” “Entrée,” “Nugget” or “Formula.” So for example, a “Chicken Dinner” (or Chicken Entrée, or Chicken Nugget for that matter) would imply only 25 percent of this product is actually chicken – the rest could be something else entirely, like fish, beef or pork. If more than one ingredient is named in the dinner, like “Chicken and Turkey Dinner,” the total of the two products must be at least 25 percent of the weight of the product, with the minimum of the second ingredient being greater than three percent of the weight of the diet. A great example would be “Lamb and Rice Formula” implies that at least 25 percent of the diet has a combination of lamb and rice by weight with lamb being the dominant ingredient. But a “Chicken Dinner Food” has at least 25 percent chicken by weight.