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Merrick Backcountry Raw Infused Grain-Free Great Plains Red Recipe Freeze-Dried Dog Food, 20-lb bag
Merrick

Backcountry Raw Infused Grain-Free Great Plains Red Recipe Freeze-Dried Dog Food, 20-lb bag

Evidence Fair
freeze dried $4.25/lb

Merrick Backcountry Raw Infused Grain-Free Great Plains Red Recipe Freeze-Dried Dog Food, 20-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 59/100 (C) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Strong protein profile with beef as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value.

PQI

Quality fat sources: named fat with declared fat sources.

FQI

Includes egg, named fish, or organ meat for diverse high-bioavailability protein.

STACK

Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

CAP why?

No AAFCO statement. Nutritional completeness unverified.

ACF

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
35%
min
Fat
17%
min
Fiber
3.5%
max
Moisture
11%
max
Ingredients
28 total
  1. 1 beef
  2. 2 pork and bone meal
  3. 3 salmon meal
  4. 4 sweet potato
  5. 5 potato
  6. 6 peas
  7. 7 pea protein
  8. 8 natural flavor
  9. 9 pork fat
  10. 10 potato protein
  11. 11 lamb
  12. 12 sunflower oil
  13. 13 beef liver
  14. 14 flaxseed
  15. 15 tapioca
  16. 16 dried yeast
  17. 17 potassium chloride
  18. 18 salt
  19. 19 choline chloride
  20. 20 zinc amino acid complex
  21. 21 iron amino acid complex
  22. 22 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.
  23. 23 manganese amino acid complex
  24. 24 copper amino acid complex
  25. 25 calcium iodate

Showing first 25 of 28. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.