Front of the packageDry food · 25 lb bag

Orijen Original Puppy Recipe, front of the package

Turn it over: every ingredient is below

OrijenBrand transparency A

Original Puppy Recipe

Dry food · 25 lb bagDog foodScored September 2026

Flags: 11 caution
Ingredients: 53all in our library
Brand grade: Atransparency, costs nothing
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.

Why 9296 to start

It adds up, line by line.

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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Orijen
Original Puppy Recipe

Starting point96

Brand transparency · A0

Documented recall · none0

Panel Score92 A

Pretty good

Scored September 2026 · checkthepanel.com

Flags-4 points in all

1 flagged ingredient.

Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.

Caution-4

Natural flavor

An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.

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IngredientsAs printed · 53 lines

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.

53 ingredients. 1 of them carries this product's flag and is marked below. The other 52 raised no flag.

RecallsFrom FDA notices

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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Orijen, the brand

No FDA recalls on file

None of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Orijen.

Brand3 Orijen products scored

The brand behind it.

ATransparency

Orijen

Champion Petfoods' flagship: fresh named animal ingredients lead the panel and the brand publishes regional sourcing detail.

Names its meat sources on the panel. Publishes testing or sourcing information. The A grade takes nothing off this product's score.

Orijen brand page

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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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