
Freeze-Dried Raw Lamb & Whitefish Soft Nibs Dog Food
Freeze-dried raw dog food · 14 oz or 3 lbDog foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 0nothing flagged
- Ingredients
- 111 not in our library yet
- Brand grade
- Atransparency, costs nothing
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyVital Essentials
Freeze-Dried Raw Lamb & Whitefish Soft Nibs Dog Food
Pretty good
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
Nothing flagged.
No line we recognise matches our caution list, but 1 line is not in our library yet and was not checked.
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.
11 ingredients. None of the 10 we could check raised a flag. 1 line isn't in our library yet, so we couldn't check it; it's marked Not checked.
- 02whitefish with boneNot checked
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.
1 of the 11 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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See all pet recallsVital Essentials, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Vital Essentials.
The brand behind it.
Vital Essentials
Raw freeze-dried treats that are just named animal parts.
Single-source freeze-dried organs and meat, nothing else. The A grade takes nothing off this product's score.
Vital Essentials brand pageMore Vital Essentials dog food
Panel Score 96 out of 100, grade A: Pretty goodIndependent 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.
What we look forNo corrections on this page yet.
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