Brown Rice

Brown Rice appears on the labels of 65 of the 244 recipes we have read and scored (27 percent of the database), in label forms including Brown Rice, brown rice, Brown rice, Whole Grain Brown Rice.

What it is

Whole grain rice with its bran layer kept, milled for the recipe. A gentle, highly digestible energy grain.

Why makers use it

Energy and kibble structure, with more fiber and micronutrients than white rice because the bran survives.

What to watch for

Rice is the grain vets reach for in bland diets. It is never on our filler flag list; whole grains and filler fractions are different things.

Highest scoring recipes that carry it

The full database, filterable by brand, format, life stage and grains, is the reviews index; the food finder answers it by the proteins a dog must avoid.

Often on the same panels

Vitamin Supplements (the Vitamin Pack), Choline Chloride, Selenium Yeast and Sodium Selenite, Natural Flavor. The full dictionary is the ingredient index.