Purina Pro Plan Kitten Complete Essentials Shredded Blend Chicken & Rice Formula
Cat Food · scored by FurMetric
This dry cat food starts with named chicken and includes taurine, fish oil, and probiotics, but leans heavily on plant proteins to pad the protein count. Artificial caramel color and menadione drag down an otherwise nutritionally adequate formula.
How our scores compare · 100–75 Excellent, 74–50 Fair, below 50 Poor
How we got this score
Read from: a photo of this product’s label, taken before we started keeping photos in September 2026.
Scored August 2026: Everyone sees this same score. It changes only if the recipe or our reading of the label is corrected.
How the score works: our method. It describes the label, not your pet — ask your vet about your pet's diet.
What hurt the score
The biggest factors, largest first.
- Plant protein splitting — multiple soy/pea proteins pad protein
- Caramel color — artificial dye, no nutritional value
- Menadione — controversial synthetic vitamin K
- Poultry by-product meal — unnamed animal source
What helped the score
The biggest factors, largest first.
- Chicken first ingredient — named animal protein leads list
- Taurine and fish oil — taurine and omega-3 for cats
- Mixed tocopherols — natural fat preservation
- Bacillus coagulans — added probiotic culture
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