Hearty Cuts With Real Turkey, Chicken & Cheese In Gravy
Wet foodCat foodScored September 2026
- Flags
- 55 caution
- Ingredients
- 421 not in our library yet
- Brand grade
- Dtransparency, costs 8 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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Hearty Cuts With Real Turkey, Chicken & Cheese In Gravy
Proceed with caution
Scored September 2026 · checkthepanel.com
5 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 by-products
Unnamed animal parts. Legal and regulated, but the label tells you nothing about the source.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.
Added color
Color added for the buyer's eye, not a synthetic dye; your pet does not care what color it is.
Meat and bone meal
An unnamed-mammal protein with high bone content; the least transparent protein you can buy.
Menadione (vitamin K3)
A synthetic vitamin K linked to liver stress in high doses; safer natural forms exist.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
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42 ingredients. 7 of them carry this product's 5 flags and are marked below. The other 34 raised no flag. 1 line isn't in our library yet, so we couldn't check it; it's marked Not checked.
- 42canthaxanthinNot checked
1 of the 42 ingredient lines have no entry in our library yet and stayed plain above. We could not check them, so they count for nothing in the score, for or against. Tell us what we missed.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
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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.
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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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This page was corrected 2 times.
- Sep 22, 2026 “Artificial colors” is now “Added color”. The score did not change. The panel lists titanium dioxide, iron oxide and caramel color, not a synthetic dye such as Red 40.
- Sep 22, 2026 Renamed from “Hearty Cuts With Real Chicken & Cheese In Gravy” to “Hearty Cuts With Real Turkey, Chicken & Cheese In Gravy”. The score did not change and the web address did not change. 9Lives makes no chicken-and-cheese Hearty Cuts. The turkey was missing from the name we imported, and the printed panel lists turkey ahead of chicken, so a reader searching for the product could not find it.
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