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Hill's Science Diet Puppy Small Bites Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 12.5-lb bag
Hill's Science Diet

Puppy Small Bites Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 12.5-lb bag

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AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $3.44/lb

Hill's Science Diet Puppy Small Bites Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 12.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 68/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Reasonable protein quality. chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

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

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