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Hill's Science Diet

Adult Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food

Evidence Fair
AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $79.99

Hill's Science Diet Adult Small Bites Lamb Meal & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food earns a Sniff Score of 66/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

Reasonable protein quality. lamb meal delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Includes egg, named fish, or organ meat for diverse high-bioavailability protein.

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
19.5%
min
Fat
12.5%
min
Fiber
3%
max
Moisture
n/a
max
Ingredients
29 total
  1. 1 lamb meal
  2. 2 brown rice
  3. 3 brewers rice
  4. 4 sorghum
  5. 5 wheat
  6. 6 corn gluten meal
  7. 7 chicken fat
  8. 8 cracked pearled barley
  9. 9 chicken liver flavor
  10. 10 dried beet pulp
  11. 11 soybean oil
  12. 12 flaxseed
  13. 13 lactic acid
  14. 14 pork liver flavor
  15. 15 potassium chloride
  16. 16 salt
  17. 17 l-lysine
  18. 18 choline chloride
  19. 19 calcium carbonate
  20. 20 taurine
  21. 21 ferrous sulfate
  22. 22 zinc oxide
  23. 23 copper sulfate
  24. 24 manganous oxide
  25. 25 calcium iodate

Showing first 25 of 29. Position 1-5 has the largest weight.