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Merrick Healthy Grains Healthy Weight Recipe Dry Dog Food, 25-lb bag
Merrick

Healthy Grains Healthy Weight Recipe Dry Dog Food, 25-lb bag

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dry $2.92/lb

Merrick Healthy Grains Healthy Weight Recipe Dry Dog Food, 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 deboned chicken 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
26%
min
Fat
9%
min
Fiber
10%
max
Moisture
11%
max
Ingredients
38 total
  1. 1 deboned chicken
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 brown rice
  4. 4 barley
  5. 5 oat meal
  6. 6 turkey meal
  7. 7 miscanthus grass
  8. 8 quinoa
  9. 9 natural flavor
  10. 10 chicken fat
  11. 11 flaxseed
  12. 12 dried yeast
  13. 13 potassium chloride
  14. 14 salt
  15. 15 apples
  16. 16 carrots
  17. 17 alfalfa meal
  18. 18 choline chloride
  19. 19 iron amino acid complex
  20. 20 zinc amino acid complex
  21. 21 zinc sulfate
  22. 22 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.
  23. 23 manganese amino acid complex
  24. 24 copper amino acid complex
  25. 25 copper sulfate

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