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Hill's Science Diet Puppy Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 27.5-lb bag
Hill's Science Diet

Puppy Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 27.5-lb bag

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dry growth $2.87/lb

Hill's Science Diet Puppy Large Breed Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 27.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 72/100 (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. chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).

FQI

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
11%
min
Fiber
3%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
39 total
  1. 1 chicken
  2. 2 brown rice
  3. 3 oats
  4. 4 chicken meal
  5. 5 cracked pearled barley
  6. 6 chicken fat
  7. 7 pea protein
  8. 8 brewers rice
  9. 9 wheat
  10. 10 soybean meal
  11. 11 whole grain corn
  12. 12 chicken liver flavor
  13. 13 ground pecan shells
  14. 14 lactic acid
  15. 15 pork liver flavor
  16. 16 dicalcium phosphate
  17. 17 flaxseed
  18. 18 dried beet pulp
  19. 19 fish oil
  20. 20 salt
  21. 21 dried citrus pulp
  22. 22 potassium chloride
  23. 23 choline chloride
  24. 24 pressed cranberries
  25. 25 calcium carbonate

Showing first 25 of 39. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.

AAFCO statement

Animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate that Hill's® Science Diet® Puppy Large Breed provides complete and balanced nutrition for growing puppies.