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Merrick Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato Recipe Dry Dog Food, 4-lb bag
Merrick

Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato Recipe Dry Dog Food, 4-lb bag

Evidence Fair
dry $6.75/lb

Merrick Grain-Free Real Salmon & Sweet Potato Recipe Dry Dog Food, 4-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 salmon as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value.

PQI

Quality fat sources: named fat with declared fat sources.

FQI

Named fresh meat paired with same-species meal, a strong extrusion architecture.

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
30%
min
Fat
14%
min
Fiber
3.5%
max
Moisture
11%
max
Ingredients
27 total
  1. 1 salmon
  2. 2 salmon meal
  3. 3 sweet potato
  4. 4 potato
  5. 5 peas
  6. 6 whitefish meal
  7. 7 potato protein
  8. 8 pork fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
  9. 9 natural flavor
  10. 10 flaxseed
  11. 11 sunflower oil
  12. 12 miscanthus grass
  13. 13 dried yeast
  14. 14 potassium chloride
  15. 15 salt
  16. 16 apples
  17. 17 blueberries
  18. 18 choline chloride
  19. 19 zinc amino acid complex
  20. 20 iron amino acid complex
  21. 21 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.
  22. 22 manganese amino acid complex
  23. 23 copper amino acid complex
  24. 24 calcium iodate
  25. 25 dl-methionine

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