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Merrick Grain-Free Dry Dog Food Healthy Weight Recipe, 4-lb bag
Merrick

Grain-Free Dry Dog Food Healthy Weight Recipe, 4-lb bag

Evidence Fair
dry $6.00/lb

Merrick Grain-Free Dry Dog Food Healthy Weight Recipe, 4-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 59/100 (C) with Fair evidence. 1 controversial ingredient flagged. Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. beef delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Premium micronutrient forms such as chelated minerals or natural vitamin E.

MNI

Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

CAP why?

No AAFCO statement. Nutritional completeness unverified.

ACF

Contains menadione. Banned for human OTC use but tolerated at AAFCO-permitted levels in pet food. The only AAFCO-permitted vitamin K source..

CIP

Controversial ingredients · 2

  • 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.
  • menadione
    Synthetic vitamin K3. Banned in human supplements due to toxicity concerns at high doses. Permitted in pet food but premium brands use natural vitamin K alternatives.

Every flagged ingredient has a published basis (confirmed harm / regulatory action / precautionary). See methodology →

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
30%
min
Fat
10%
min
Fiber
5%
max
Moisture
11%
max
Ingredients
37 total
  1. 1 beef
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 sweet potato
  4. 4 potato
  5. 5 peas
  6. 6 turkey meal
  7. 7 chicken fat
  8. 8 natural flavor
  9. 9 miscanthus grass
  10. 10 flaxseed
  11. 11 dried yeast
  12. 12 potassium chloride
  13. 13 salt
  14. 14 choline chloride
  15. 15 apples
  16. 16 blueberries
  17. 17 zinc amino acid complex
  18. 18 iron amino acid complex
  19. 19 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.
  20. 20 manganese amino acid complex
  21. 21 copper amino acid complex
  22. 22 calcium iodate
  23. 23 dl-methionine
  24. 24 taurine
  25. 25 vitamin e supplement

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