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Turn it over: every ingredient is belowAdult 7+ Tender Chicken Dinner
Wet cat food · 5.5 oz canCat foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 33 caution
- Ingredients
- 26all in our library
- Brand grade
- Atransparency, costs nothing
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyHill's Science Diet
Adult 7+ Tender Chicken Dinner
Good, check the flags
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
3 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.
Added color
Color added for the buyer's eye, not a synthetic dye; your pet does not care what color it is.
Added sugar
A sweetener with no nutritional job; it adds calories and nothing else.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
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26 ingredients. 3 of them carry this product's 3 flags and are marked below. The other 23 raised no flag.
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.
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 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 cat food
Panel Score 92 out of 100, grade A: Pretty good
Adult Sensitive Stomach & Skin Chicken & Rice Recipe Cat FoodPanel Score 88 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags
Adult Indoor Cat Chicken RecipePanel Score 88 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags
Adult 11+ Chicken 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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This page was corrected 4 times.
- Oct 16, 2026 Panel Score 88 → 84: added a caution for Added sugar. The panel lists dextrose, a sugar. Until October 16, 2026 we left it unread while we decided how to read sweeteners; it now reads as an added sugar.
- Oct 16, 2026 Replaced the panel Open Pet Food Facts volunteers transcribed with the ingredient list Hill's publishes on its website. Panel Score 92 → 88: added a caution for Meat flavor and digest. Hill's list, checked on October 14, 2026, names “hydrolyzed chicken flavor” where the transcribed panel said “chicken liver flavor”, and it does not list titanium dioxide. Both are meat flavors, so the record should have carried this caution before: until October 16, 2026 we read “chicken liver flavor” as chicken liver, the organ meat. Caramel color is on both lists, so the caution for Added color stays.
- Sep 22, 2026 “Artificial colors” is now “Added color”. The score did not change. The panel lists caramel color, not a synthetic dye such as Red 40.
- Sep 21, 2026 Panel Score 87 → 92: brand transparency grade set to A. We graded every brand in the catalogue from its own panels. Hill's Science Diet was ungraded, and the formula scores an ungraded brand as a C, so the grade moved the number.
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