Evanger’s Complements Dog Food Review (Canned)

Evanger’s Complements product range is made up of nine recipes which are not rated because they are intended for supplementary feeding only. This means the product does not meet AAFCO standards for complete and balanced nutrition.

The table below shows each recipe in this range including our rating and the AAFCO nutrient profile: Growth (puppy), Maintenance (adult), All Life Stages, Supplemental or Unspecified.

Recipe and Label Analysis

Evanger’s Complement Grain-Free Rabbit was selected to represent the other products in the line for detailed recipe and nutrient analysis.

Ingredients Analysis

The first ingredient in this dog food is rabbit. Rabbit is considered “the clean flesh derived from slaughtered rabbit” and associated with skeletal muscle or the muscle tissues of the tongue, diaphragm, heart, esophagus or other tissues accompanying the flesh.¹

Rabbit is naturally rich in all 10 essential amino acids required by a dog to sustain life.

The second ingredient is water, which adds nothing but moisture to this food. Water is a routine finding in most canned dog foods.

The third ingredient is liver. Normally, liver can be considered a quality component. However, in this case, the source of the liver is not identified. For this reason, it’s impossible to judge the quality of this item.

The fourth ingredient is guar gum, a gelling or thickening agent found in many wet pet foods. Refined from dehusked guar beans, guar gum can add a notable amount of dietary fiber to any product.

We find no added vitamins or minerals on the ingredients list.

Nutrient Analysis

By design, Evanger’s Complements Dog Food is unique in its simplicity.

But being 100% meat, the product was never intended to be fed as a complete and balanced canine diet. Because they probably lack some essential nutrients, supplemental dog foods should not be fed continuously as the sole item in a dog’s diet.

We prefer to use a product like this as a special treat. Or as an appetizing topper to be served over a dry kibble.

In any case, its ingredients clearly suggest this dog food to be of very good quality.

The dashboard displays a dry matter protein reading of 44.2%, a fat level of 26.9% and estimated carbohydrates of about 17.3%.

As a group, the brand features an average protein content of 41.1% and a mean fat level of 24.2%. Together, these figures suggest a carbohydrate content of 22.5% for the overall product line.

And a fat-to-protein ratio of about 58%.

Free of any plant-based protein boosters, this looks like the profile of a wet product containing an abundance of meat.

However, with not enough carb ingredients present to account for the reading on the dashboard, one must assume the protein or fat (and thus the meat) content may be significantly understated on the label.

Evangers Dog Food Recall History

The following automated list (if present) includes all dog food recalls related to Evangers through March 2025.

You can view a complete list of all dog food recalls since 2009 here.

Our Rating of Evanger's Complements Dog Food

Evanger’s Complements is a grain-free  canned dog food using a generous amount of named species as its dominant source of animal protein.

The Chicago Rabbinical Council endorses these as chometz-free pet foods acceptable for dogs and cats in Kosher households on Passover.

About

Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Company was founded in 1935 by Fred Evanger.

All these years later, Evanger’s pet food line is manufactured on the original site, following the same tradition of uncompromising quality. Evanger’s remains a family-owned and operated company and in 2003, Evanger’s was the first pet food company to create a food that was packed by hand instead of machine by putting whole pieces of fresh meat and vegetables into the cans.

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