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

Check out Whole Dog Journal's 2025 list of approved dry dog foods, with more than 1,000 varieties! Did your dog's food make the list?

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We’re excited to now present information about every single one of the dry dog foods made by the companies on our “Approved Foods” list, including their complete ingredients lists. This feature is available only to our paid subscribers. Even more exciting: This is a searchable database. You can use filters to find foods that meet many specific needs for different dogs.
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Nancy Kerns
Nancy Kerns was the founding editor of Whole Dog Journal in 1998. She now devotes her time to teaching dog-training classes and training dogs for The Canine Connection in Chico, CA, and as a volunteer for her local animal shelter, the Northwest SPCA in Oroville, CA.

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  1. Would someone please investigate appropriate protein levels for healthy adult dogs? My veterinarian and my dog’s breeder both said 22% -26%, with a stretch to 28%. Even some trainers will tell you that high protein levels can affect a dog’s behavior. Why then are there so many approved foods well over 30%? Two dogs ago, I fed a food whose protein levels have skyrocketed to 32% – 36%. For now, I’m following the vet’s and breeder’s advice, feeding a food with a 24% protein level. But I’d like to have a definitive answer.

  2. I too, am curious about Blue Buffalo. It was, at one time, on the WDJ list of approved foods but has been absent in recent editions of this list. Way back when, we made the switch to Blue Buffalo based on the WDJ recommendation. Is Blue Buffalo the company that Melissa Paul is referring (in terms of good advertising0? Now we are simply confused. This list of “approved” foods could be more concise. And what about hydrolized foods for dogs with allergies?

  3. I’m concerned because I just re subscribed. I had stopped before for the reasons stated above. I worked in veterinary medicine for 40 years before retiring. I saw all the fad diets come and go. I went to a lecture recently by a veterinary geneticist who stresses that today’s dogs are NOT wolves. Our pet dogs have evolved and need healthy grains in their diets.

    If the product package has a wolf I run the other way. I am looking for a dry dog food made of ingredients from the US and made in the US. No fly by night brands. I want to know the number of recalls the plant has had. And no raw food. Is anyone else looking for something like this? Or has found it?

  4. Unfortunately I see there are many brands listed that may or do source ingredients (usually vitamin/mineral mixes) from China. With all of the issues and recalls due to ingredients from China, I find that piece of information to be very important when choosing a food for my dogs. It would be helpful for that information to be noted on the list.