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Hill's Prescription Diet Brain Care + j/d Joint Care Chicken Dry Dog Food, 8.5-lb bag
Hill's Prescription Diet

Brain Care + j/d Joint Care Chicken Dry Dog Food, 8.5-lb bag

Evidence Fair
dry $6.94/lb

Hill's Prescription Diet Brain Care + j/d Joint Care Chicken Dry Dog Food, 8.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 50/100 (C) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).

FQI

Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

CAP why?

Plant-protein-dominated formula. brewers rice as the #1 ingredient.

PQI

No AAFCO statement. Nutritional completeness unverified.

ACF

Controversial ingredients · 1

  • sodium selenite
    Synthetic selenium source. Selenium is essential, but sodium selenite has a narrower safety margin than organic alternatives like selenium yeast. Better-formulated foods use the organic form.

Every flagged ingredient has a published basis (confirmed harm / regulatory action / precautionary). See methodology →

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
16.5%
min
Fat
11%
min
Fiber
6%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
38 total
  1. 1 brewers rice
  2. 2 wheat
  3. 3 whole grain corn
  4. 4 flaxseed
  5. 5 chicken
  6. 6 chicken meal
  7. 7 chicken fat
  8. 8 soybean meal
  9. 9 hydrolyzed chicken flavor
  10. 10 corn protein meal
  11. 11 fish oil
  12. 12 pork liver flavor
  13. 13 carrots
  14. 14 dried tomato pomace
  15. 15 dried citrus pulp
  16. 16 lactic acid
  17. 17 spinach
  18. 18 calcium carbonate
  19. 19 salt
  20. 20 lipoic acid
  21. 21 potassium chloride
  22. 22 choline chloride
  23. 23 l-lysine
  24. 24 dl-methionine
  25. 25 taurine

Showing first 25 of 38. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.