Puppy Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe
Dry puppy food · 35 lb bagDog foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 22 caution
- Ingredients
- 322 not in our library yet
- Brand grade
- Atransparency, costs nothing
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyHill's Science Diet
Puppy Chicken & Brown Rice Recipe
Good, check the flags
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
2 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 flavor and digest
A rendered palatant from animal tissue; the vaguer the name, the less you know.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.
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32 ingredients. 3 of them carry this product's 2 flags and are marked below. The other 27 raised no flag. 2 lines aren't in our library yet, so we couldn't check them; they're marked Not checked.
- 11Ground Pecan ShellsNot checked
- 23Pressed CranberriesNot checked
Checked against the brand's own page on Oct 14, 2026. A package on the shelf can be older or newer than that page; trust the one in your hand.
2 of the 32 ingredient lines have no entry in our library yet and stayed plain above. We could not check them, so they count for nothing in the score, for or against. Tell us what we missed.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
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See all pet recallsHill's Science Diet, the brand
1 FDA recall on fileThese are recalls of other Hill's Science Diet products. Only a recall linked to this product counts in its score.
The brand behind it.
Hill's Science Diet
Vet-clinic staple with published feeding studies; panels name their species, with a natural-flavors catch-all near the end.
Names its meat sources on the panel. Publishes testing or sourcing information. The A grade takes nothing off this product's score.
Hill's Science Diet brand pageMore Hill's Science Diet dog food
Panel Score 88 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags
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Adult Perfect Weight Chicken & Brown Rice RecipeIndependent testing & contaminants
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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