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Cat Food · scored July 2026

Meow Mix

Original Choice Dry Cat Food

Dry food · 3.15 to 30 lb bags

Panel Score 63 out of 100, grade C: Proceed with caution

Flagged ingredients

Caution
“Natural flavor”: an undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what's actually in the recipe. see the evidence
Avoid
Ethoxyquin (preservative): a preservative developed as a rubber stabilizer, restricted in the EU; long-term feeding studies prompted the FDA to ask makers to halve levels. see the evidence
Caution
Added colors: purely cosmetic. Your pet doesn't care what color the food is; dyes add risk with zero benefit. see the evidence
Recall

Recall history: 2021 Salmonella recall on select 30 lb bags, resolved details

Full ingredient panel, as printed

26 ingredients6 doing real work14 neutral5 worth knowing1 we'd avoid

Tap any underlined ingredient for what it is, where it comes from, and what to watch for.

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Independent testing & contaminants

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.

No independent testing on file. 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. See the methodology page for what testing does and doesn't exist across the category.

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