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Dog Food · scored July 2026

Merrick

Grain Free Real Chicken & Sweet Potato

Dry food · 22 lb bag

Panel Score 86 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags

Flagged ingredients

Caution
“Natural flavor”: an undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what's actually in the recipe. see the evidence
Caution
Menadione (vitamin K3): a synthetic vitamin K linked to liver stress in high doses; safer natural forms exist. see the evidence

Recall history: none on record for this product.

Full ingredient panel, as printed

19 ingredients13 doing real work5 neutral1 worth knowing

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Cleaner picks

Panel Score 96 out of 100, grade A: Pretty good
Canine Beef Meal Feast
Panel Score 96 out of 100, grade A: Pretty good
Organix Organic Chicken & Brown Rice
Panel Score 96 out of 100, grade A: Pretty good
Whole Grain Chicken Dehydrated Dog Food

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Independent testing & contaminants

Third-party lab findings for things that never appear on an ingredient label. This is separate from the score above and does not change it.

No independent testing on file. We haven't found published third-party lab results (PFAS, heavy metals, phthalates) for this product. That is not a clean bill of health, just an absence of data. See the methodology page for what testing does and doesn't exist across the category.

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