Hill's Science Diet
Adult Light Weight Management Small Breed & Mini Breed with Chicken Meal & Barley Dry Dog Food, 4.5-lb bag
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C Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $5.33/lb
Hill's Science Diet Adult Light Weight Management Small Breed & Mini Breed with Chicken Meal & Barley Dry Dog Food, 4.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 59/100 (C) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged.
Graded by The Sniff System
Why this score
Reasonable protein quality. chicken meal delivers solid amino acid coverage.
PQI
+15
Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.
CQI
+12
Includes egg, named fish, or organ meat for diverse high-bioavailability protein.
STACK
+5
Controversial ingredients · 1
- sodium seleniteSynthetic 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
20%
min
Fat
5.5%
min
Fiber
14%
max
Moisture
10.5%
max
Ingredients
35 total - 1 chicken meal protein animal
- 2 cracked pearled barley
- 3 pea fiber fiber
- 4 brown rice grain
- 5 whole grain corn grain
- 6 corn protein meal
- 7 powdered cellulose fiber
- 8 oats grain
- 9 soybean meal protein plant
- 10 sorghum grain
- 11 brewers rice
- 12 chicken liver flavor
- 13 soybean oil
- 14 pea protein protein plant
- 15 dried beet pulp fiber
- 16 flaxseed fat
- 17 lactic acid
- 18 pork liver flavor
- 19 potassium chloride mineral
- 20 calcium carbonate mineral
- 21 salt mineral
- 22 fructooligosaccharides fiber
- 23 choline chloride supplement
- 24 l-lysine supplement
- 25 ferrous sulfate mineral
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