Grow + Learn Puppy Formula
Dry foodDog foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 22 caution
- Ingredients
- 44all in our library
- Brand grade
- Ctransparency, costs 5 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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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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The full methodologyHill's Bioactive Recipe
Grow + Learn Puppy Formula
Good, check the flags
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
2 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.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.
Meat flavor and digest
A rendered palatant from animal tissue; the vaguer the name, the less you know.
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.
44 ingredients. 2 of them carry this product's 2 flags and are marked below. The other 42 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 recallsHill's Bioactive Recipe, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Hill's Bioactive Recipe.
The brand behind it.
Hill's Bioactive Recipe
Graded from the 1 product of theirs in this catalogue, not from an audit of the company.
Not enough to grade: we hold 1 panel of theirs, and it is clean, but a clean panel or two says nothing about the rest of the range. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.
Hill's Bioactive Recipe brand pageIndependent 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 once.
- Oct 16, 2026 Panel Score 87 → 83: added a caution for Meat flavor and digest. The panel lists “chicken liver flavor”. Until October 16, 2026 we read that line as chicken liver, the organ meat, so the record was not carrying the flag. It is a flavor, and it now reads as one.
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