Whole Grain Beef & Chicken Essential Clusters
Dry dog food · 5 or 20 lb bagDog foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 11 caution
- Ingredients
- 20all in our library
- Brand grade
- Atransparency, costs nothing
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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Whole Grain Beef & Chicken Essential Clusters
Pretty good
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
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.
Meat flavor and digest
A rendered palatant from animal tissue; the vaguer the name, the less you know.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
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20 ingredients. 1 of them carries this product's flag and is marked below. The other 19 raised no flag.
Checked against the brand's own page on Oct 14, 2026. A package on the shelf can be older or newer than that page; trust the one in your hand.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
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The brand behind it.
The Honest Kitchen
Dehydrated human-grade recipes; every ingredient is a named whole food rehydrated with warm water.
Human-grade, fully named whole-food panel dehydrated in a human food facility. The A grade takes nothing off this product's score.
The Honest Kitchen 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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