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Merrick Classic Healthy Grains Real Beef + Brown Rice Recipe with Ancient Grains Adult Dry Dog Food, 33-lb bag
Merrick

Classic Healthy Grains Real Beef + Brown Rice Recipe with Ancient Grains Adult Dry Dog Food, 33-lb bag

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AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $2.85/lb

Merrick Classic Healthy Grains Real Beef + Brown Rice Recipe with Ancient Grains Adult Dry Dog Food, 33-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 72/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Reasonable protein quality. beef delivers solid amino acid coverage..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. beef delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with declared 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
26%
min
Fat
15%
min
Fiber
3.5%
max
Moisture
11%
max
Ingredients
38 total
  1. 1 beef
  2. 2 brown rice
  3. 3 oat meal
  4. 4 pork and bone meal
  5. 5 barley
  6. 6 natural flavor
  7. 7 salmon meal
  8. 8 pork fat
  9. 9 potato protein
  10. 10 quinoa
  11. 11 flaxseed
  12. 12 dried yeast
  13. 13 miscanthus grass
  14. 14 potassium chloride
  15. 15 salt
  16. 16 sunflower oil
  17. 17 alfalfa meal
  18. 18 choline chloride
  19. 19 apples
  20. 20 carrots
  21. 21 iron amino acid complex
  22. 22 zinc amino acid complex
  23. 23 zinc sulfate
  24. 24 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.
  25. 25 manganese amino acid complex

Showing first 25 of 38. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.