Flavor Snacks Dog Biscuits
Crunchy biscuit · 36 ozTreats & chewsScored October 2026
- Flags
- 61 avoid · 5 caution
- Ingredients
- 21all in our library
- Brand grade
- Ctransparency, costs 5 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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Flavor Snacks Dog Biscuits
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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.
BHA and BHT
A preservative flagged as a possible carcinogen in animal studies; many brands have dropped it.
Meat and bone meal
An unnamed-mammal protein with high bone content; the least transparent protein you can buy.
Added sugar
A sweetener with no nutritional job; it adds calories and nothing else.
Sulfite preservatives
A sulfite preservative, not the curing salt sodium nitrite; sulfites destroy thiamine (vitamin B1).
Added color
Color added for the buyer's eye, not a synthetic dye; your pet does not care what color it is.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
Listed by weight, so the first few lines are most of the food. Tap any line to see what it is and why it's there.
21 ingredients. 8 of them carry this product's 6 flags and are marked below. The other 13 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 recallsMilk-Bone, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Milk-Bone.
The brand behind it.
Milk-Bone
The classic biscuit still leans on meat and bone meal and BHA, listed twice on the current panel.
Relies on ingredients that don't name their source species. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.
Milk-Bone 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 4 times.
- Oct 24, 2026 “Meat flavor and digest” is now “Meat and bone meal”. The score did not change. The panel lists “Meat and bone meal (source of beef flavor)”. Until October 24, 2026 our library read the words in brackets and filed the line as a meat flavor; the ingredient is meat and bone meal, and the brackets say why it is there. Its natural bacon and sausage flavors carry Natural flavor, as before.
- Oct 16, 2026 Panel Score 59 → 55: added a caution for Added sugar. “BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole)” is now “BHA and BHT”, and “Sodium metabisulfite” is now “Sulfite preservatives”. The panel lists malt extract, a sugar made from malted grain. Until October 16, 2026 we left it unread; it now reads as an added sugar, as corn syrup and molasses do. The beef fat is preserved with BHA and BHT, so the flag now names both. The sulfite flag now carries the name of the entry that covers every sulfite preservative.
- Sep 22, 2026 “Artificial colors” is now “Added color”; “Sodium nitrite” is now “Sodium metabisulfite”. The score did not change. The panel says only “Added color” and names no synthetic dye. The panel lists sodium metabisulfite, a sulfite preservative, not the curing salt sodium nitrite.
- Sep 21, 2026 Panel Score 87 → 59: added flags for BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), Meat flavor and digest, Sodium nitrite and Natural flavor. The printed panel lists it and our record was not carrying the flag.
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