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Merrick Classic Healthy Grains Dry Dog Food Real Lamb + Brown Rice Recipe with Ancient Grains, 25-lb bag
Merrick

Classic Healthy Grains Dry Dog Food Real Lamb + Brown Rice Recipe with Ancient Grains, 25-lb bag

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dry $3.08/lb

Merrick Classic Healthy Grains Dry Dog Food Real Lamb + Brown Rice Recipe with Ancient Grains, 25-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 lamb as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value.

PQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with declared fiber.

CQI

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

FQI

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
25%
min
Fat
16%
min
Fiber
3.5%
max
Moisture
11%
max
Ingredients
38 total
  1. 1 lamb
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 brown rice
  4. 4 barley
  5. 5 oat meal
  6. 6 lamb meal
  7. 7 chicken fat
  8. 8 salmon meal
  9. 9 quinoa
  10. 10 natural flavor
  11. 11 flaxseed
  12. 12 dried yeast
  13. 13 miscanthus grass
  14. 14 potassium chloride
  15. 15 salt
  16. 16 dehydrated alfalfa meal
  17. 17 choline chloride
  18. 18 apples
  19. 19 carrots
  20. 20 iron amino acid complex
  21. 21 zinc amino acid complex
  22. 22 zinc sulfate
  23. 23 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.
  24. 24 manganese amino acid complex
  25. 25 copper amino acid complex

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