Tender Selects Blend With Real Chicken
Dry food · 16 lb bagCat foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 33 caution
- Ingredients
- 28all in our library
- Brand grade
- Atransparency, costs nothing
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyPurina ONE
Tender Selects Blend With Real Chicken
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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.
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.
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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28 ingredients. 3 of them carry this product's 3 flags and are marked below. The other 25 raised no flag.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
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See all pet recallsPurina ONE, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Purina ONE.
The brand behind it.
Purina ONE
Purina's mid-tier line backed by feeding trials and owned plants; panels lean on corn, by-product meal, caramel color, and menadione.
Names its meat sources on the panel. Publishes testing or sourcing information. The A grade takes nothing off this product's score.
Purina ONE 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 4 times.
- Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 80 → 84: removed “Unnamed animal ingredients”. “Unnamed animal ingredients” was a flag of our own for lines that don't say which animal they come from. We retired it on October 24, 2026 for the entries our library has for those lines, each counted once. Every animal line on this panel names its animal: chicken, chicken by-product meal and beef fat.
- Oct 4, 2026 Panel Score 84 → 80: added a caution for Menadione (vitamin K3). The panel lists “menadione sodium bisulfite complex” inside its vitamin line. Until October 4, 2026 we read that whole line as a vitamin premix, so the record was not carrying the flag.
- Sep 22, 2026 “Artificial colors (Red 40, Yellow 5, and friends)” 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 92 → 84: added flags for Artificial colors (Red 40, Yellow 5, and friends) and Natural flavor. The printed panel lists it and our record was not carrying the flag.
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