What we can prove, and what we cannot yet.

Nutritional adequacy

Loyal Saints Beef, Chicken, and Turkey + Salmon formulas are formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for All Life Stages. Beef and Chicken include growth of large size dogs (70 lb. or more as an adult); Turkey + Salmon is for All Life Stages except growth of large size dogs.

Feeding a large-breed puppy? Choose Beef or Chicken. Turkey + Salmon is a complete food for adult large dogs and for puppies of smaller breeds.

That sentence is a formulation standard, and it is worth being precise about what it does and does not mean, because the pet food aisle is not.

• It means the recipe is built to hit a published set of nutrient minimums and maximums for dogs at any life stage, including growth.
• It does not mean AAFCO approved this food. AAFCO does not regulate, approve, certify, endorse or test any pet food. Any brand — ours included — that tells you otherwise is describing something that does not exist.
• It is a floor, not a grade. Supermarket kibble meets the same profiles. Adequacy is table stakes; it is not the reason to choose us, and we will not sell it to you as one.
• There are two routes to the claim — formulation to the profile, or a feeding trial conducted to AAFCO protocols. Ours is the formulation route.

Guaranteed analysis and calorie content

These are label guarantees — minimums and maximums we commit to. They are not a laboratory typical analysis of finished product, which is a different document and one we do not yet publish. See the evidence status above.

The same figures appear on every product page and on the bag. If you ever find a number here that disagrees with one there, that is a defect — tell us and we will correct it.

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Formula specifications

Taken from the signed final specifications and the printed bag panel. Each 14 oz bag holds about 7.8 cups.

Full ingredient lists, as printed on the bag

Beef: Beef, Beef Lung, Beef Liver, Beef Heart, Beef Kidney, Beef Fat, Tricalcium Phosphate, Flaxseed, Chia Seed, Carrot, Broccoli, Blueberry, Apple Cider Vinegar, Sea Salt, Fish Oil, Honey, Potassium Chloride, Mixed Tocopherols (natural preservative), Apple, Tomato, Shiitake Mushroom, Orange, Cranberry, Pumpkin, Spinach, Beet, Tart Cherry, Strawberry, Chlorella.

Chicken: Chicken, Chicken Heart, Chicken Liver, Flaxseed, Carrot, Broccoli, Blueberry, Apple Cider Vinegar, Tricalcium Phosphate, Sea Salt, Fish Oil, Honey, Chia Seed, Mixed Tocopherols (natural preservative), Apple, Tomato, Shiitake Mushroom, Orange, Cranberry, Pumpkin, Spinach, Beet, Tart Cherry, Strawberry, Chlorella.

Turkey + Salmon: Turkey, Turkey Liver, Turkey Heart, Salmon, Flaxseed, Chia Seed, Carrot, Broccoli, Blueberry, Tricalcium Phosphate, Apple Cider Vinegar, Sea Salt, Fish Oil, Honey, Mixed Tocopherols (natural preservative), Apple, Tomato, Shiitake Mushroom, Orange, Cranberry, Pumpkin, Spinach, Beet, Tart Cherry, Strawberry, Chlorella.

Not in any Loyal Saints formula: kelp, salmon oil, coconut oil, sweet potato, zucchini, kale, green beans, peas, lentils, corn, wheat, soy, probiotics, glucosamine, chondroitin, synthetic vitamin premix. Minerals added to balance the formulas: tricalcium phosphate and sea salt (all three), potassium chloride (Beef). Mixed tocopherols are a natural preservative.

Feeding amounts (printed panel)

Complete-meal amounts. Over 50 lb, add ½ cup for every additional 10 lb. As a topper, feed 25% of these amounts in place of the same share of the current food. Never feed freeze-dried food by a percentage of body weight. Between rows, see the official feeding amounts and the feeding calculator.

Documents on file, and what we are still collecting

Updates to how we describe the food

• 2026-09-27 — Ingredient pages now match the signed lists exactly: kelp, salmon oil, coconut oil, sweet potato and zucchini are not in any formula (every formula has fish oil and chlorella).
• 2026-09-27 — “Complete from whole foods alone” replaced with the accurate “no synthetic vitamin premix” — a few minerals are added to balance each formula.
• 2026-09-27 — Feeding amounts unified: every page uses the printed bag panel, with the feeding calculator between its rows.
• 2026-09-26 — Facility described as an FDA-registered facility in the Midwest; high pressure processing (HPP) before freeze-drying confirmed.
• 2026-09-22 — Turkey + Salmon adequacy corrected to all life stages except growth of large-size dogs, per the signed specification.

Raw, freeze-dried, and what that means for safety

Freeze-drying removes water. It does not sterilize food. That single sentence should shape how you handle any freeze-dried raw product, ours included, and we would rather say it plainly than let the word "freeze-dried" imply a safety guarantee it does not carry.

• Wash your hands after handling it, as you would with any raw-origin food.
• Wash the bowl and any scoop between meals.
• Store the bag sealed, cool and dry. No refrigeration needed — the water is already gone.
• If someone in the household is immunocompromised, pregnant, elderly or very young, talk to your veterinarian about whether a raw-origin diet is appropriate for your home.

What we have documented. Every recipe is made to a signed specification that requires negative results for Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes and E. coli O157:H7 in finished product, tested by BAX real-time PCR to AOAC and USDA methods. Our first production lots of all six bags were tested against it in April 2025, and every result was negative.

How it is made, as our manufacturing partner describes it. Meat and organs are ground once and formed into small nibs; before freeze-drying, the raw food goes through high pressure processing (HPP), a cold, pressure-based pathogen-reduction step; it is then flash-frozen, slowly freeze-dried over about 48 hours — never cooked — and sealed in nitrogen-flushed bags. Every packaging line runs a metal detector, every batch is lot-tracked through the supply chain, and the facility operates under FSSC 22000, a GFSI-benchmarked food safety certification, with a full HACCP plan. Shelf life is 24 months unopened.

What we do not have yet: the HPP validation record, the certification certificates themselves, and the name and accreditation of the laboratory on the certificates of analysis, which are issued on our partner's letterhead. We have requested both and will publish them here, because a safety claim we cannot document is worse than none.

Who makes the food, and who formulates it

Loyal Saints is a woman-owned brand based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, founded by Kristina Voltin. Our food is made in the Midwest, in an FDA-registered facility run by one of the longest-established raw pet food manufacturers in the country.

Formulation. Each recipe was formulated by our manufacturing partner's R&D team to the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for All Life Stages — and reformulated before launch: the team reduced the bone-in necks in Chicken and Turkey + Salmon to bring calcium into range, and set the honey at 0.25% after review with their animal nutritionist. The signed specifications are dated March 2025.

Formulation to the profiles relies on nutrient values for each raw material, and our partner's specification says plainly that full compliance is confirmed only by accredited laboratory testing. That laboratory nutrient panel is commissioned; the result will be published in the status table above.

Vet-formulated and nutritionally validated. Every Loyal Saints recipe is vet-formulated and nutritionally validated in-house by Loyal Saints and our manufacturing partner's R&D team, including their animal nutritionist, against the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles. We stand behind the formulas, the ingredients and every claim on this page.

Ingredients and sourcing

Human-grade quality ingredients, meat and organs first in every recipe — one meat in Beef and Chicken, turkey and salmon in Turkey + Salmon — made in an FDA-registered facility. No soy, corn, wheat, GMOs or artificial additives.

Where it comes from. Our meat and organs come from U.S. farms: beef from Wisconsin, Texas, Nebraska, Kansas and Florida; chicken from Mississippi, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Alabama; turkey from Michigan and Indiana. Our salmon is wild-caught in Alaska. Blueberries come from Oregon, carrots and apples from Michigan, broccoli from California, and the fruit-and-vegetable blend is grown in the USA. A few supporting ingredients come from abroad, and we would rather say so: flaxseed and fish oil from Canada, and chlorella from Portugal.

Full ingredient detail for every formula →

Research

We have not conducted digestibility, palatability or feeding studies, and we have published nothing peer-reviewed. Saying so costs us nothing we were entitled to claim.

Our stated position on what nutrition can and cannot do is set out in full on what nutrition can and cannot do. The short version: nutrition is one of the few inputs you control, keeping a dog lean is strongly associated with better long-term outcomes, and no food prevents, treats or cures disease. Any brand telling you their food does is making a claim they are not permitted to make.