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Tiki Dog Kauai Luau Succulent Chicken is a mid-priced dog food with great quality. This product has no controversial ingredients, including zero artificial preservatives, colors or flavors. It has a relatively low amount of carbs compared to protein and fat, this is great, and the meat and fat quality in the food is excellent. Tiki Dog has a below average number of recalls and was relatively transparent when answering our questions. Watchdog Labs recommends this product.
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This food has well-balanced amounts of protein, fat, and carbs. Diets that are high in protein and fat, with moderate to low carbs, are ideal for most dogs.
To evaluate dog foods, we first calculate out the moisture. This is called the “dry matter basis” and shows you only the solid ingredients in the food. These estimated “dry matter” numbers are different from the food label, but a better way to understand the real nutritional value of the food. We also calculate the carbs. Find out more
Min. Protein 54.55%
Min. Fat 9.09%
Min. Carbs 27.27%
Max. Fiber 6.82%
Max. Ash 9.09%
Max. Moisture 0.00%
Min. Protein: 14.6%
Min Fat: 3.2%
Min Carbs: N/A
Max Fiber: N/A
Max Ash: 1.5%
Max. Moisture: 79.0%
440 Calories per Can
This product has an above average amount of calories for wet food. It’s important to understand how many calories you are feeding to prevent under or overfeeding. Based on your dog's current weight and activity level you may want to feed more or less than the recommended amount.
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This is a grain-free dog food. The FDA is investigating a potential connection between grain-free diets and canine heart disease. There is not enough evidence yet to affect our ratings but we've created an article for you explaining the topic.
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Lobster Consomme 42%, Chicken Breast 40%, Brown Rice 4%, Sweet Potato 4%, Prawns 3%, Egg 3%, Sunflower Seed Oil 1%, Contains Less Than 1% of the Following: Calcium Lactate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Garlic, Kale, Tuna Fish Oil, Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulphate, Vitamin A Acetate, Potassium Iodide, Copper sulfate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 Supplement.
The average dog food we reviewed has 39 total ingredients, with 1 controversial ingredient. This product has 0 controversial ingredients. That’s what you want to see in a food, great! Moreover, this product even shows the exact percentages of ingredients included in the food. This is exceptionally transparent, very uncommon for dog food, and a really great choice by Tiki. More dog food brands should do this!
Top 5 Ingredients
Dog food ingredients are listed in descending order of weight. So when looking at a dog food label, take a close look at the first 5 ingredients. They make up about 80% of the total weight.
Controversial Ingredients
Tiki Dog Kauai Luau Succulent Chicken has no controversial ingredients.
Country of Origin
Tiki Dog Food is made in Thailand. We generally recommend dog foods made in the USA, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and Australia because of high food safety and quality standards.
Meat & Fat Quality
The meats and added fats in this product are clearly named, showing you which animals and plant they come from: Chicken Breast 40%, Brown Rice 4%, Sweet Potato 4%, Prawns 3%, Egg 3%, Sunflower Seed Oil 1%. We always prefer that all ingredients are transparently showing their origin.
Artificial Preservatives
Tiki Dog Kauai Luau contains 0 controversial artificial preservatives. It’s good to know that not all artificial preservatives are bad. That’s because they serve an important purpose, which is to prevent food from spoiling. However, we consider 11 artificial preservatives controversial because of their potential link to cancer and other serious health conditions.
Artificial Colors
No artificial colors, either. Absolutely excellent.
Artificial Flavors
Last but not least, this product manages to shine by also not using any artificial flavors. No artificial preservatives, colors or flavors is exactly what you want to look for in dog food. Well done!
Tiki Dog has a below average number of recalls.
We love dog food brands that are committed to transparent business practices. If you make quality dog food you should be willing to openly talk about how it’s sourced and produced. That’s why we reached out to pet food companies, asking questions about all their brands and products. Each company had three weeks to reply to our messages.
How Easy Was it to Reach the Company?
Tiki did not respond to the first email. A second email was sent a week later, a delayed response was received with the following answers.
Does Tiki have a veterinary nutritionist on staff? If so, who are they?
Tiki has dedicated pet nutritionists, food scientists, food engineers, and quality assurance managers to support product development and manufacturing. We are not able to disclose their information.
We would prefer to know exactly who the professionals are that work on the product.
Who formulates your recipes, and what are their credentials?
See the previous answer.
Do you test your products using AAFCO feeding trials? Why, or why not?
We do not do feeding trials. Our products are formulated in compliance with AAFCO nutrient profiles.
What country are your products manufactured?
Our wet foods are produced in Thailand while our dry foods are produced in Canada.
Can your manufacturing facilities be visited?
While we do visit each of them regularly to ensure quality and regulations, they are not open to the public for safety and quality assurance reasons.
What quality measures do you use to assure consistency and quality?
As part of our quality assurance, we apply close scrutiny to our manufacturers and suppliers along every step of our supply chain. Our manufacturing facilities are highly regarded and are held to strict quality assurance standards. Our co-manufacturing plants operate under programs like HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points), Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOP's), current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP's) and others under a system for managing food safety and quality.
Does Tiki own its manufacturing facility? If it is another company, what company is it?
We are not able to disclose those manufacturers or exact locations due to our contracts with them.
The majority of companies we spoke to are willing and able to share who their partners are. Not knowing exactly where the food is being made is concerning.
Do any parts of your product come from China?
The ingredients are globally sourced and from pre-approved suppliers only but we do attempt to source ingredients as close to the manufacturing facilities as possible unless an ingredient is not available or does not meet our quality standards. We are not disclosing exact locations, as we are under a non-disclosure contract with both our manufacturers and suppliers. Tiki carefully chooses our raw materials so that only the best, purposeful ingredients are in our final product.
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