Vital Shredded Chicken Recipe with Sweet Potatoes & Carrots
Fresh refrigerated food · 4.5 lb bagDog foodScored September 2026
- Flags
- 11 caution
- Ingredients
- 17all in our library
- Brand grade
- Btransparency, costs 2 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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Vital Shredded Chicken Recipe with Sweet Potatoes & Carrots
Pretty good
Scored September 2026 · checkthepanel.com
1 flagged ingredient.
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Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.
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17 ingredients. 1 of them carries this product's flag and is marked below. The other 16 raised no flag.
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None linked
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No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Freshpet.
The brand behind it.
Freshpet
Fridge-aisle fresh food; short named-ingredient panels, no rendered meals.
Refrigerated whole-food rolls with named meats. The B grade takes 2 points off this product's score.
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Independent testing & contaminants
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This page was corrected once.
- Sep 21, 2026 Re-identified as Vital Shredded Chicken Recipe with Sweet Potatoes & Carrots, 4.5 lb bag, and repanelled. Panel Score 94 → 90. This record came from a batch of scores built from ingredient summaries rather than printed labels, and the batch invented product names and sizes. Freshpet makes no “Vital Fresh Chicken Recipe”.
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