Tender Centers Salmon & Chicken
Dry food · 13.5 lb bagCat foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 81 avoid · 7 caution
- Ingredients
- 48all in our library
- Brand grade
- Ctransparency, costs 5 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyMeow Mix
Tender Centers Salmon & Chicken
We'd skip it
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
8 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.
BHA (preservative)
A preservative flagged as a possible carcinogen in animal studies; many brands have dropped it.
Animal fat
Rendered fat from unnamed species, and the ingredient where BHA most often hides.
Meat flavor and digest
A rendered palatant from animal tissue; the vaguer the name, the less you know.
Added sugar
A sweetener with no nutritional job; it adds calories and nothing else.
Menadione (vitamin K3)
A synthetic vitamin K linked to liver stress in high doses; safer natural forms exist.
Artificial colors
Purely cosmetic. Your pet doesn't care what color the food is; dyes add risk with zero benefit.
Carrageenan
A seaweed thickener linked to gut inflammation in some lab studies.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
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48 ingredients. 10 of them carry this product's 8 flags and are marked below. The other 38 raised no flag.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
We link recalls by hand from FDA notices. Only a recall linked to this product counts in its score.
See all pet recallsMeow Mix, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Meow Mix.
The brand behind it.
Meow Mix
Value brand whose panel includes ethoxyquin-preserved fish meal and three synthetic dyes.
Relies on ingredients that don't name their source species. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.
Meow Mix 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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This page was corrected 2 times.
- Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 51 → 47: “Unnamed animal ingredients” is now “Animal fat”, and added a caution for Natural flavor. “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: “Animal fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols)” is Animal fat, and “Animal digest” already carried Meat flavor and digest. The panel also prints “Natural white meat chicken flavor”. Until October 24, 2026 our library read a natural flavor that names a meat or fish as a meat flavor and digest; it now reads every “natural … flavor” line as a natural flavor, except smoke flavor, which has an entry of its own, so the record now carries Natural flavor as well as the animal digest's flag.
- Sep 21, 2026 Panel Score 67 → 51: added flags for Carrageenan, Corn syrup, Meat flavor and digest and Menadione (vitamin K3). The printed panel lists it and our record was not carrying the flag.
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