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Front of the packageWet food · 2.6 oz twin-pack
Sheba Kitten Pate Salmon, front of the package
Turn it over: every ingredient is below
ShebaBrand transparency C

Kitten Pate Salmon

Wet food · 2.6 oz twin-packCat foodScored October 2026

Panel Score 83 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags
Flags
22 caution
Ingredients
28all in our library
Brand grade
Ctransparency, costs 5 points
Recalls
0linked to this product
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Sheba
Kitten Pate Salmon

Starting point96
Brand transparency · C-5
Documented recall · none0
Panel Score83 B

Good, check the flags

Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com

Flags-8 points in all

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.

Caution-4

Added color

Color added for the buyer's eye, not a synthetic dye; your pet does not care what color it is.

Caution-4

Menadione (vitamin K3)

A synthetic vitamin K linked to liver stress in high doses; safer natural forms exist.

IngredientsAs printed · 28 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.

28 ingredients. 2 of them carry this product's 2 flags and are marked below. The other 26 raised no flag.

RecallsFrom FDA notices

Recall record.

This product

None linked

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Sheba, the brand

No FDA recalls on file

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

Brand4 Sheba products scored

The brand behind it.

CTransparency

Sheba

Mars-owned wet cat food; the gravy cuts use unnamed poultry by-products, animal plasma, caramel color, and menadione.

Relies on ingredients that don't name their source species. Publishes testing or sourcing information. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.

Sheba 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.

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Panel Score 96 out of 100, grade A: Pretty good
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This page was corrected once.

  • Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 87 → 83: added a caution for Added color. The panel lists “Iron Oxide Color”, and the record was not carrying the flag.

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