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This is a fixed sample recipe, not a live builder — run through the exact same nutrient engine every real recipe on this app uses. Try adding a real topper below and watch the numbers move. Want to check your own dog’s recipe? Request beta access.

Sample recipe

Turkey, brown rice & sweet potato

For a 30 lb adult dog, moderately active

Turkey, ground, 93% lean, 7% fat, pan-broiled crumbles

180 g

Measured

Rice, brown, long-grain, cooked

1 cup (202 g)

Measured

Sweet potato, cooked, baked in skin, flesh, without salt

80 g

Measured

Peas, green, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

½ cup (80 g)

Measured

Pumpkin, canned, without salt

2 tbsp (30.6 g)

Estimated

Oil, olive, salad or cooking

1 tsp (4.5 g)

Measured

Why this matters

A nutrient gap that’s easy to miss on the plate doesn’t announce itself right away — it shows up months later, as a dull coat, low energy, or a bigger problem at the vet. NRC 2006’s targets exist so a homemade diet gets the same real scrutiny a commercial bag of food already has to meet before it can call itself complete.

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Eggshell powder +½ tsp (2.5 g)

A real calcium source, the piece this recipe is missing — Eggshell powder, homemade (generic, ESTIMATED: weigh it)

Estimated

Beef liver +30 g

Riboflavin, vitamin A, vitamin D, B12 and copper — Beef, variety meats and by-products, liver, cooked, braised

Measured

Sardines (with bone) +1 can (92 g)

Omega-3 and vitamin D, and about 190 more calories — Fish, sardine, Atlantic, canned in oil, drained solids with bone

Measured

These are examples — not feeding advice. The engine shows how they change the nutrient totals, nothing more.

Compared against NRC 2006

Nutrient adequacy

821 kcal total — sorted by what needs attention first

Deficient: Below NRC’s minimum requirement (only nutrients where NRC publishes a minimum).
Below recommended: Below NRC’s recommended allowance. For some nutrients (vitamin D, thiamin, EPA + DHA) NRC gives a recommended allowance but no minimum, so this is the strongest flag available — 0% is as low as it gets.
Incomplete data: At least one ingredient has no value for this nutrient, so it can’t be called adequate or low.
Adequate: Meets the recommended allowance (and stays under any safe upper limit).

The percentage is the amount fed as a share of NRC’s recommended allowance for one day’s energy, per 1,000 kcal.

Nutrient	Amount fed	Sample Dog Adult · Maintenance
Chloride mineral	no data	0% Incomplete data
Iodine mineral	no data	0% Incomplete data
Vitamin D vitamin	0.36 µg	13% Deficient
Calcium mineral	0.12 g	15% Deficient
Omega-3 fats (EPA + DHA) fatty acid	0.03 g	30% Below recommended
Vitamin E vitamin	2.32 mg	38% Deficient
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) vitamin	3.42 µg	48% Deficient
Choline vitamin	197.5 mg	57% Deficient
Copper mineral	0.81 mg	66% Deficient
Zinc mineral	9.48 mg	77% Deficient
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) vitamin	0.83 mg	78% Deficient
Selenium mineral	64.6 µg	90% Deficient
Vitamin K vitamin	0.03 mg	—Not scored

Real gaps are easy to miss — and real fixes are easy to verify once you check.

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