Plus Care
Cat foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 81 avoid · 7 caution
- Ingredients
- 29all in our library
- Brand grade
- Dtransparency, costs 8 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
Save it to your pantry and the pantry page flags it if it turns up in an FDA recall we import.
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Every product starts at 96. Flags, the brand's transparency grade and any recall linked to this product take points away. Nothing else moves the number, and no brand can pay to move it.
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Plus Care
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.
Meat flavor and digest
A rendered palatant from animal tissue; the vaguer the name, the less you know.
Meat and bone meal
An unnamed-mammal protein with high bone content; the least transparent protein you can buy.
Animal fat
Rendered fat from unnamed species, and the ingredient where BHA most often hides.
Menadione (vitamin K3)
A synthetic vitamin K linked to liver stress in high doses; safer natural forms exist.
Artificial colors
Dyes that exist to sell the food to you; your pet does not care what color it is.
Artificial flavor
A lab-made flavor blend disclosed no further than the words on the label.
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.
29 ingredients. 10 of them carry this product's 8 flags and are marked below. The other 19 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.
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No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names 9Lives.
The brand behind it.
9Lives
Grocery cat food built on corn gluten meal, meat and bone meal, and color.
Corn base with unnamed meal, BHA/BHT, and multiple dyes. The D grade takes 8 points off this product's score.
9Lives 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.
What we look forThis page was corrected 2 times.
- Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 60 → 44: added a caution for Natural flavor, and the score now follows the formula. The panel prints “Natural and artificial flavor (source of grilled flavor)”, which names two flavorings. Until October 24, 2026 we read the line as the artificial flavor alone; it now raises both, each counted once. The stored score was also 12 points above the formula. When the record was rescored in September 2026, its BHA flag, an avoid worth 16 points, was counted as a 4-point caution; it now carries the score the formula gives its flags.
- Oct 16, 2026 “BHA and BHT” is now “BHA (preservative)”. The score did not change. The panel lists BHA and no BHT. The flag now names what the panel prints.
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