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Hill's Science Diet Adult Light Weight Management Small Breed & Mini Breed with Chicken Meal & Barley Dry Dog Food, 4.5-lb bag
Hill's Science Diet

Adult Light Weight Management Small Breed & Mini Breed with Chicken Meal & Barley Dry Dog Food, 4.5-lb bag

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

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

Includes egg, named fish, or organ meat for diverse high-bioavailability protein.

STACK

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
20%
min
Fat
5.5%
min
Fiber
14%
max
Moisture
10.5%
max
Ingredients
35 total
  1. 1 chicken meal
  2. 2 cracked pearled barley
  3. 3 pea fiber
  4. 4 brown rice
  5. 5 whole grain corn
  6. 6 corn protein meal
  7. 7 powdered cellulose
  8. 8 oats
  9. 9 soybean meal
  10. 10 sorghum
  11. 11 brewers rice
  12. 12 chicken liver flavor
  13. 13 soybean oil
  14. 14 pea protein
  15. 15 dried beet pulp
  16. 16 flaxseed
  17. 17 lactic acid
  18. 18 pork liver flavor
  19. 19 potassium chloride
  20. 20 calcium carbonate
  21. 21 salt
  22. 22 fructooligosaccharides
  23. 23 choline chloride
  24. 24 l-lysine
  25. 25 ferrous sulfate

Showing first 25 of 35. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.