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

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

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

Hill's Science Diet Adult Small Breed & Mini Breed Lamb Meal & Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 15.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 68/100 (B) with Fair 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. lamb meal 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
13.5%
min
Fiber
3%
max
Moisture
9.5%
max
Ingredients
37 total
  1. 1 lamb meal
  2. 2 brown rice
  3. 3 brewers rice
  4. 4 whole grain corn
  5. 5 wheat gluten
  6. 6 wheat
  7. 7 chicken fat
  8. 8 sorghum
  9. 9 cracked pearled barley
  10. 10 pea protein
  11. 11 chicken liver flavor
  12. 12 dried beet pulp
  13. 13 soybean oil
  14. 14 lactic acid
  15. 15 potassium chloride
  16. 16 pork liver flavor
  17. 17 flaxseed
  18. 18 calcium carbonate
  19. 19 l-lysine
  20. 20 salt
  21. 21 oats
  22. 22 dl-methionine
  23. 23 fructooligosaccharides
  24. 24 choline chloride
  25. 25 pumpkin

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