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Merrick Grain-Free Senior Dry Dog Food Real Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe, 22-lb bag
Merrick

Grain-Free Senior Dry Dog Food Real Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe, 22-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $3.32/lb

Merrick Grain-Free Senior Dry Dog Food Real Chicken & Sweet Potato Recipe, 22-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 71/100 (B) with Fair evidence. 1 controversial ingredient flagged. Strong protein profile with deboned chicken as the primary ingredient, delivering high biological value..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

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

PQI

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

FQI

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

STACK

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
12%
min
Fiber
3.5%
max
Moisture
11%
max
Ingredients
40 total
  1. 1 deboned chicken
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 sweet potato
  4. 4 potato
  5. 5 peas
  6. 6 turkey meal
  7. 7 salmon meal
  8. 8 chicken fat
  9. 9 natural flavor
  10. 10 flaxseed
  11. 11 dried yeast
  12. 12 sunflower oil
  13. 13 potassium chloride
  14. 14 salt
  15. 15 apples
  16. 16 blueberries
  17. 17 salmon oil
  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 l-carnitine

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