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Lil' Plates Grain Free Real Chicken & Sweet Potatoes Recipe Dry Dog Food
Merrick

Lil' Plates Grain Free Real Chicken & Sweet Potatoes Recipe Dry Dog Food

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dry $3.35/lb Data verified from brand site

Merrick Lil' Plates Grain Free Real Chicken & Sweet Potatoes Recipe Dry Dog Food 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 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

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
32%
min
Fat
16%
min
Fiber
3.5%
max
Moisture
11%
max
Ingredients
30 total
  1. 1 deboned chicken
  2. 2 chicken meal
  3. 3 turkey meal
  4. 4 potato
  5. 5 sweet potato
  6. 6 peas
  7. 7 chicken fat
  8. 8 natural flavor
  9. 9 whitefish meal
  10. 10 miscanthus grass
  11. 11 dried yeast
  12. 12 flaxseed
  13. 13 potassium chloride
  14. 14 salt
  15. 15 choline chloride
  16. 16 apples
  17. 17 salmon oil
  18. 18 blueberries
  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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