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Hill's Science Diet Adult Small Breed & Mini Breed Chicken Meal & Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 15.5-lb bag
Hill's Science Diet

Adult Small Breed & Mini Breed Chicken Meal & Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 15.5-lb bag

Evidence Limited
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $3.93/lb

Hill's Science Diet Adult Small Breed & Mini Breed Chicken Meal & Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 15.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 67/100 (B) with Limited evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

Reasonable protein quality. chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

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
12.5%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
n/a
max
Ingredients
35 total
  1. 1 chicken
  2. 2 brown rice
  3. 3 wheat
  4. 4 whole grain corn
  5. 5 brewers rice
  6. 6 chicken meal
  7. 7 sorghum
  8. 8 chicken fat
  9. 9 soybean meal
  10. 10 chicken liver flavor
  11. 11 corn protein meal
  12. 12 pork liver flavor
  13. 13 flaxseed
  14. 14 lactic acid
  15. 15 soybean oil
  16. 16 potassium chloride
  17. 17 l-lysine
  18. 18 oats
  19. 19 salt
  20. 20 fructooligosaccharides
  21. 21 pumpkin
  22. 22 choline chloride
  23. 23 dl-methionine
  24. 24 calcium carbonate
  25. 25 taurine

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