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Hill's Science Diet Senior Adult 7+ Chicken Meal, Rice & Barley Recipe Dry Dog Food, 33-lb bag
Hill's Science Diet

Senior Adult 7+ Chicken Meal, Rice & Barley Recipe Dry Dog Food, 33-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.64/lb

Hill's Science Diet Senior Adult 7+ Chicken Meal, Rice & Barley Recipe Dry Dog Food, 33-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 49/100 (C) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Score capped at 49 due to CP_DM=17.2%, CF_DM=11.7%.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

AAFCO formulation inferred from declared adult maintenance. Verbatim statement not published by retailer.

ACF

Score capped at 49 due to CP_DM=17.2%, CF_DM=11.7%.

CAP why?

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
15.5%
min
Fat
10.5%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
32 total
  1. 1 chicken meal
  2. 2 cracked pearled barley
  3. 3 brewers rice
  4. 4 wheat
  5. 5 whole grain corn
  6. 6 sorghum
  7. 7 oats
  8. 8 chicken fat
  9. 9 dried beet pulp
  10. 10 soybean meal
  11. 11 chicken liver flavor
  12. 12 soybean oil
  13. 13 lactic acid
  14. 14 flaxseed
  15. 15 potassium chloride
  16. 16 calcium carbonate
  17. 17 salt
  18. 18 fructooligosaccharides
  19. 19 choline chloride
  20. 20 dl-methionine
  21. 21 l-lysine
  22. 22 ferrous sulfate
  23. 23 zinc oxide
  24. 24 copper sulfate
  25. 25 manganous oxide

Showing first 25 of 32. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.