Classic Paté Chicken Feast
Wet food · 3 oz cansCat foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 66 caution
- Ingredients
- 14all in our library
- Brand grade
- Ctransparency, costs 5 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyFancy Feast
Classic Paté Chicken Feast
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Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
6 flagged ingredients.
Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.
Meat by-products
Unnamed animal parts. Legal and regulated, but the label tells you nothing about the source.
Artificial flavor
A lab-made flavor blend disclosed no further than the words on the label.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what's actually in the recipe.
Added color
Color added for the buyer's eye, not a synthetic dye; your pet does not care what color it is.
Menadione (vitamin K3)
A synthetic vitamin K linked to liver stress in high doses; safer natural forms exist.
Sodium nitrite
A curing salt that can form nitrosamines under heat; levels are legally capped.
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14 ingredients. 5 of them carry this product's 6 flags and are marked below. The other 9 raised no flag.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
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No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Fancy Feast.
The brand behind it.
Fancy Feast
Purina's wet-food line; classic patés lean on unnamed meat by-products, added color, and artificial flavors.
Relies on ingredients that don't name their source species. Publishes testing or sourcing information. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.
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Panel Score 79 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags
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No independent testing on file.
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.
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.
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This page was corrected once.
- Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 75 → 67: “Unnamed animal ingredients” is now “Meat by-products”, and added cautions for Artificial flavor and Sodium nitrite. “Unnamed animal ingredients” was a flag of our own for lines that don't say which animal they come from. We retired it on October 24, 2026 for the entries our library has for those lines, each counted once: “Meat by-products” and “Liver” are Meat by-products, one flag for both. The panel prints “Artificial and natural flavors”, which names two flavorings. Until October 24, 2026 we read the line as the artificial flavor alone; it now raises both, each counted once; this record carried the natural flavor and now carries the artificial one beside it. It also lists “Sodium nitrite (to promote color retention)”, which the record was not carrying.
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