WDJ’s 2025 Approved Dry Dog Foods: Search Over 1,100 Varieties

Below, we’ve listed more than 1,100 foods that meet our selection criteria for a high-quality food. They range from moderately priced to expensive foods (super cheap foods don’t meet our selection criteria). You’ll notice that certain store brands, with ingredients that meet our criteria for quality foods, do not appear on our list of “Approved Foods.”

Approved Dry Dog Foods

On this page, we have provided the following information about every individual product made by each of the companies on our Approved Foods list:

• Company information (city, state, phone, website)
• Line (if the company identifies a product as part of a certain product line)
• Name of the product
• Its complete ingredients list
• Whether the product is grain-free or grain-inclusive
• Whether the product is made with a named meat, a named meat meal, both, or none (in the case of vegetarian foods)
• Whether the product is formulated for adult maintenance or dogs of all life stages
• The minimum % of protein
• The minimum % of fat
• The price per pound (we used the largest size available of each product to calculate this; per-pound prices are higher for smaller bags)
• A link for purchasing the product. (Note: If you buy a product using the link, we may earn a commission. Whole Dog Journal is reader-supported and does not accept money for its food and product reviews.)

Note that if you don’t see the name of a company or product you were expecting to see, try the product name (or, conversely, the name of the company who makes it). We’ve listed each company’s products under the best-known name. So, for example, the foods made by Champion Pet Foods are listed under “Acana” and “Orijen.” But “Gather” and “Now Fresh” are listed under their maker’s name, Petcurean.

We’re excited to be able to use this online platform to present information about every single one of the dry dog foods made by the companies on our “Approved Foods” list in the form of a searchable database. You can use filters on the page below to find foods that meet the specific needs of any dog.

Perhaps the most useful are the filters that allow you to either select or eliminate foods based on their ingredients. If your dog is allergic to or intolerant of chicken, for example, just click on the “add filters” button. In the first drop-down box after the word “Where,” select “ingredients.” In the second box, select “does not contain.” In the third box, type in “chicken.” Then click on “submit” – and you’ll end up with a list of more than 300 foods on our “approved foods” list that do not contain chicken. Your filter will look like this: You can as many more filters as you need to further refine your list of candidate dog foods. For example, you can use the filters to find a grain-free food that contains no peas and is made with meat meal only. (Note: If you are trying to avoid a certain ingredient, add every iteration of that ingredient you can find. For example, if your dog can’t tolerate peas, look for a food with no peas, pea starch, pea fiber, or pea protein.) Or, you can find grain-inclusive foods that contain beef, have less than 15% fat, and are formulated dogs of all life stages. Use as many filters as you like!

For more information on how to use the filters, click here

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You can also have fun with ordering the data by clicking on the top of any of the columns. What are the most expensive foods on our list? Click the top of the “average price per pound” column! Click on it again to see the least expensive foods. Looking for especially high-protein or low-fat foods? Click on the top of those columns to order the 1,100-plus foods by the amount of these nutrients.

We’re excited about the possibilities of this searchable database, and hope you find it to be helpful for finding good foods for your dogs. Keeping your dog’s individual needs in mind, try some new products, switch frequently – and always watch your dog! Note the date that you start feeding any new food on a calendar and record your dog’s physical responses to the switch, good and bad. If you pay attention, he’ll let you know what works for him (and what doesn’t) with his appetite, energy, skin and coat, stool, and weight.

Click here to read more about our favorite dry dog foods in a number of different categories.

Searchable Dry Dog Food Database

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