Hip & Joint Bites, Bacon Flavor
Soft chewsHealth & pharmacyScored October 2026
- Flags
- 22 caution
- Ingredients
- 14all in our library
- Brand grade
- Btransparency, costs 2 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 methodologyZesty Paws
Hip & Joint Bites, Bacon Flavor
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.
Meat flavor and digest
A rendered palatant from animal tissue; the vaguer the name, the less you know.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
Listed as printed on the package. Tap any line to see what it is and why it's there.
14 ingredients. 2 of them carry this product's 2 flags and are marked below. The other 12 raised no flag.
Checked against the brand's own page on Oct 15, 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
We link recalls by hand from FDA notices. Only a recall linked to this product counts in its score.
See all pet recallsZesty Paws, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Zesty Paws.
The brand behind it.
Zesty Paws
Soft-chew and lickable supplements for dogs and cats. Graded from 3 of its product pages, all 3 in this catalogue, not from an audit of the company.
All 3 product pages we checked print a full list, with doses for the actives, and every one carries a natural flavor catch-all. The joint chew's "proprietary blend" names its parts but not their amounts. The B grade takes 2 points off this product's score.
Zesty Paws 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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