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Description
Merrick Lil’ Plates Grain-Free Pint-Sized Puppy Plate in Gravy Dog Food Trays feature a dog tested taste and texture your tiny pooch will drool for. With succulent pieces containing real chicken in gravy, these trays make for a hearty, flavorful meal dogs love. They are 100% grain-free with no gluten ingredients for easy digestibility. The high-protein recipe features moderate fat levels and low carbohydrates, along with potatoes, carrots, peas and apples in a savory meat broth. The easy-open trays pack all this incredible nutrition into a convenient, single-serving sized container for small-breed dogs.
Price Score: 26 out of 100 Points
Variety Score: 71 out of 100 Points
Brand Score: 38 out of 100 Points
Ingredients Score: 66 out of 100 Points
Total Score: 56.8 out of 100 Points
Key Benefits
- Deboned chicken is the first ingredient, along with real fruits and veggies, in a savory, meaty broth.
- Grain-free recipe with no gluten ingredients, and no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives.
- Highly palatable with a delicious taste and texture your pint-sized puppy will love.
- Convenient, single-serve trays designed to offer the right-sized portion for smaller breeds.
- Proudly made in Merrick’s Texas facility using the world’s best locally-sourced ingredients from farmers they know and trust.
Ingredients
Deboned Chicken, Chicken Broth, Turkey Broth, Chicken Liver, Deboned Turkey, Dried Egg Whites, Potato Starch, Potatoes, Peas, Apples, Red Peppers, Guar Gum, Sunflower Oil, Salmon Oil (Preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Tricalcium Phosphate, Sodium Phosphate, Salt, Natural Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Minerals (Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Sodium Selenite, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Potassium Iodide), Ground Flaxseed, Choline Chloride, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Niacin Supplement, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), Xanthan Gum, Rosemary Extract. Caloric Content 955 kcal/kg, 95 kcal/bowlSee products with the same ingredients:
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Apples (23)
An apple is a sweet, edible fruit produced by an apple tree. Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found today.
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Biotin - Harmless ingredient
(242)
Biotin also called vitamin H, vitamin B7 or vitamin B8 is a water-soluble B vitamin. It is involved in a wide range of metabolic processes, both in humans and in other organisms, primarily related to the utilization of fats, carbohydrates, and amino acids.
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Chicken broth (24)
Broth, also known as bouillon, is a savory liquid made of water in which bones, meat, or vegetables have been simmered. It can be eaten alone, but it is most commonly used to prepare other dishes, such as soups, gravies, and sauces.
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Chicken Liver - Healthy ingredient
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Choline Chloride - Harmless ingredient
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Choline chloride is an organic compound with the formula 3NCH2CH2OH]Cl. It is bifunctional, containing both quaternary ammonium salt and an alcohol. The cation is choline, which occurs naturally. It is a white, water-soluble salt used mainly in animal feed..
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Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate (13)
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Copper Amino Acid Chelate (34)
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D-Calcium Pantothenate - Controversial ingredient
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Deboned Chicken (8)
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Deboned Turkey (6)
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Dried Egg Whites (7)
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Folic Acid - Harmless ingredient
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Folate, also known as vitamin B9 and folacin, is one of the B vitamins. Manufactured folic acid, which is converted into folate by the body, is used as a dietary supplement and in food fortification as it is more stable during processing and storage.
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Ground Flaxseed (23)
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Guar Gum - Controversial ingredient
(69)
Guar gum, also called guaran, is a galactomannan polysaccharide extracted from guar beans that has thickening and stabilizing properties useful in food, feed, and industrial applications. The guar seeds are mechanically dehusked, hydrated, milled and screened according to application. It is typically produced as a free-flowing, off-white powder..
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Iron Amino Acid Chelate (35)
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Manganese Amino Acid Chelate (31)
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Natural Flavor - Controversial ingredient
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Niacin - Harmless ingredient
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Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, is an organic compound and a form of vitamin B3, an essential human nutrient. It has the formula C 6H 5NO 2 and belongs to the group of the pyridinecarboxylic acid. Niacin is obtained in the diet from a variety of whole and processed foods, with highest contents in fortified packaged foods, tuna, salmon, some vegetable and other animal sources.
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Peas - Healthy ingredient
(68)
The pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas, which can be green or yellow. Botanically, pea pods are fruit, since they contain seeds and develop from the ovary of a flower.
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Potassium Chloride - Low-quality ingredient
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Potassium chloride is a metal halide salt composed of potassium and chlorine. It is odorless and has a white or colorless vitreous crystal appearance. The solid dissolves readily in water, and its solutions have a salt-like taste. KCl is used as a fertilizer, in medicine, in scientific applications, and in food processing, where it may be known as E number additive E508.
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Potassium Iodide - Harmless ingredient
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Potassium iodide is a chemical compound, medication, and dietary supplement. As a medication it is used to treat hyperthyroidism, in radiation emergencies, and to protect the thyroid gland when certain types of radiopharmaceuticals are used. In the developing world it is also used to treat skin sporotrichosis and phycomycosis.
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Potato Starch (35)
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Potatoes (34)
The potato is a root vegetable native to the Americas, a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum, and the plant itself, a perennial in the family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found throughout the Americas, from the United States to southern Chile.
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Pyridoxine Hydrochloride - Harmless ingredient
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Red Peppers (1)
Red Peppers, described as "an interlude with music", is a short comic play in two scenes by Noël Coward. It is one of ten short plays that make up Tonight at 8.30, a cycle written to be performed in groups of three plays across three evenings.
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Riboflavin - Harmless ingredient
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Riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement. Food sources include eggs, green vegetables, milk and other dairy product, meat, mushrooms, and almonds. Some countries require its addition to grains. As a supplement it is used to prevent and treat riboflavin deficiency and prevent migraines.
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Salmon Oil - Healthy ingredient
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Salt - Harmless ingredient
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Salt is a mineral consisting primarily of sodium chloride, a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantities in seawater, where it is the main mineral constituent.
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Sodium Phosphate (23)
Sodium phosphate is a generic term for a variety of salts of sodium and phosphate. Phosphate also forms families or condensed anions including di-, tri-, tetra-, and polyphosphates. Most of these salts are known in both anhydrous and hydrated forms.
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Sodium Selenite - Harmful ingredient
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Sunflower Oil (19)
Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil pressed from the seeds of sunflower. Sunflower oil is commonly used in food as a frying oil, and in cosmetic formulations as an emollient. The world's total production of sunflower oil in 2014 was nearly 16 million tonnes, with Ukraine and Russia as the largest producers.
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Thiamine Mononitrate - Harmless ingredient
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Tricalcium Phosphate - Controversial ingredient
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Tricalcium phosphate is a calcium salt of phosphoric acid with the chemical formula Ca32. It is also known as tribasic calcium phosphate and bone phosphate of lime. It is a white solid of low solubility. Most commercial samples of "tricalcium phosphate" are in fact hydroxyapatite.
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Turkey Broth (7)
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Vitamin A - Harmless ingredient
(215)
Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids. Vitamin A has multiple functions: it is important for growth and development, for the maintenance of the immune system, and for good vision.
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Vitamin B12 - Harmless ingredient
(257)
Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin involved in the metabolism of every cell of the human body: it is a cofactor in DNA synthesis, and in both fatty acid and amino acid metabolism. It is particularly important in the normal functioning of the nervous system via its role in the synthesis of myelin, and in the maturation of developing red blood cells in the bone marrow.
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Vitamin D3 - Harmless ingredient
(244)
Cholecalciferol, also known as vitamin D3 and colecalciferol, is a type of vitamin D which is made by the skin when exposed to sunlight; it is also found in some foods and can be taken as a dietary supplement. It is used to treat and prevent vitamin D deficiency and associated diseases, including rickets.
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Vitamin E - Harmless ingredient
(283)
Vitamin E is a group of eight fat soluble compounds that include four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. Vitamin E deficiency, which is rare and usually due to an underlying problem with digesting dietary fat rather than from a diet low in vitamin E, can cause nerve problems.
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Xanthan Gum - Low-quality ingredient
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Xanthan gum is a polysaccharide with many industrial uses, including as a common food additive. It is an effective thickening agent and stabilizer to prevent ingredients from separating. It can be produced from simple sugars using a fermentation process, and derives its name from the species of bacteria used, Xanthomonas campestris..
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Zinc Amino Acid Chelate (33)
Guaranteed Analysis
| Crude Protein | 8.5% min |
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| Crude Fat | 3.5% min |
| Crude Fiber | 1.4% max |
| Moisture | 82.0% max |
Dry Matter Basis
| Crude Protein | 47.2% |
|---|---|
| Crude Fat | 19.4% |
| Crude Fiber | 7.8% |
| Moisture | 455.6% |