Original Grain-Free Real Chicken (Cat)
Dry food · 11 lb bagCat foodScored July 2026
- Flags
- 22 caution
- Ingredients
- 27all in our library
- Brand grade
- Btransparency, costs 2 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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Original Grain-Free Real Chicken (Cat)
Good, check the flags
Scored July 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.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what's actually in the recipe.
Menadione (vitamin K3)
A synthetic vitamin K linked to liver stress in high doses; safer natural forms exist.
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27 ingredients. 2 of them carry this product's 2 flags and are marked below. The other 25 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 Instinct.
The brand behind it.
Instinct
Raw-inspired brand (formerly Nature's Variety) with named meats and freeze-dried raw coating; no grain, corn, wheat, soy, or by-product meal.
Names its meat sources on the panel. The B grade takes 2 points off this product's score.
Instinct brand page
Independent 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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