The Pet Parent Hotline · August 9, 2026 · 56 min
How to Read a Pet Food Label: What Really Matters
Pet food labels are packed with reassuring words like real chicken, high protein, complete and balanced, and superfoods. But what do those words actually tell you about the food inside the bag? Dr. Angie Boyer, founder of Grain & Grace Consulting and a trained multi-species nutritionist, returns to help us work through a pet food label from front to back to identify what's really in our pet food. In this episode, we cover: What “complete and balanced” means and where AAFCO fits in&n...