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Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Chicken Flavor Dry Dog Food, 27.5-lb bag
Hill's Prescription Diet

Metabolic Chicken Flavor Dry Dog Food, 27.5-lb bag

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dry $4.87/lb

Hill's Prescription Diet Metabolic Chicken Flavor Dry Dog Food, 27.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 47/100 (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 carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

CAP why?

Plant-protein-dominated formula. wheat 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
24%
min
Fat
9%
min
Fiber
15%
max
Moisture
n/a
max
Ingredients
31 total
  1. 1 wheat
  2. 2 whole grain corn
  3. 3 chicken meal
  4. 4 powdered cellulose
  5. 5 soybean meal
  6. 6 corn gluten meal
  7. 7 dried beet pulp
  8. 8 dried tomato pomace
  9. 9 hydrolyzed chicken flavor
  10. 10 chicken fat
  11. 11 flaxseed
  12. 12 coconut oil
  13. 13 lactic acid
  14. 14 dl-methionine
  15. 15 l-lysine
  16. 16 carrots
  17. 17 potassium chloride
  18. 18 salt
  19. 19 lipoic acid
  20. 20 choline chloride
  21. 21 manganese sulfate
  22. 22 ferrous sulfate
  23. 23 zinc oxide
  24. 24 copper sulfate
  25. 25 calcium iodate

Showing first 25 of 31. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.