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Merrick Lil' Plates Grain-Free Small Breed Dry Dog Food Puppy Real Chicken + Sweet Potato Recipe, 12-lb bag
Merrick

Lil' Plates Grain-Free Small Breed Dry Dog Food Puppy Real Chicken + Sweet Potato Recipe, 12-lb bag

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $4.17/lb

Merrick Lil' Plates Grain-Free Small Breed Dry Dog Food Puppy Real Chicken + Sweet Potato Recipe, 12-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 72/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients 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

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
18%
min
Fiber
4.5%
max
Moisture
11%
max
Ingredients
32 total
  1. 1 deboned chicken
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 sweet potato
  4. 4 potato
  5. 5 pea protein
  6. 6 chicken fat
  7. 7 peas
  8. 8 salmon meal
  9. 9 dried egg product
  10. 10 potato protein
  11. 11 natural flavor
  12. 12 flaxseed
  13. 13 miscanthus grass
  14. 14 dried yeast
  15. 15 salmon oil
  16. 16 potassium chloride
  17. 17 salt
  18. 18 choline chloride
  19. 19 apples
  20. 20 blueberries
  21. 21 zinc amino acid complex
  22. 22 iron amino acid complex
  23. 23 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.
  24. 24 manganese amino acid complex
  25. 25 copper amino acid complex

Showing first 25 of 32. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.