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Merrick Lil’ Plates Grain-Free Real Texas Beef + Sweet Potato with Raw Bites Recipe Dry Dog Food

Top 5 ingredients of Merrick Lil' Plates Grain-Free Real Texas Beef + Sweet Potato with Raw Bites Recipe Dry Dog Food are Deboned Beef, Pork And Bone Meal, Salmon Meal, Sweet Potatoes, and Potatoes. According to the guaranteed analysis, we calculated the starch ratio as 32.5%.

Composition of one cup as fed: protein 32.0%, fat 15.0%, fiber 3.5%, moisture 11.0%, ash, assumed 6.0%, starch, derived 32.5%
32%
15%
11%
33%
  • protein
  • fat
  • fiber
  • moisture
  • ash, assumed
  • starch, derived
Starch works out at 32.5% of this cup, below the kibble average. Protein comes in at 32.0%. One cup carries 449 kcal.
PROTEIN
32.0%
STARCH, DERIVED
32.5%
KCAL / CUP
449
Compare With Another Food
Buy on
Chewy 4 lb $27.98 ($7.00/lb) 10 lb $55.98 ($5.60/lb) Petco 10 lb $57.99 ($5.80/lb)
Merrick Lil’ Plates Grain-Free Real Texas Beef + Sweet Potato with Raw Bites Recipe Dry Dog Food

Ingredient Wiki

FIRST 5 OF 29 COMPONENTS
Beef

Beef

The clean flesh of cattle, used fresh. Like all fresh meats it is mostly water before cooking.

Pork And Bone Meal
Salmon Meal

Salmon Meal

Salmon that has been cooked, dried and ground into a concentrated meal with most of the water removed.
Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes

The tuber of the sweet potato plant, cooked and used as a grain-free carbohydrate. Botanically unrelated to the ordinary potato.
Potatoes

Potatoes

The tuber of the potato plant, cooked and used as a grain-free carbohydrate.

Guaranteed
Analysis

As printed on the bag, measured “as fed”

Calories
3,620 kcal/kg
Crude Protein (min.)
32.0%
Crude Fat (min.)
15.0%
Crude Fiber (max.)
3.5%
Moisture (max.)
11.0%
Starch ratio (calculated)
32.5%

449 kcal per cup.

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Full Ingredient
Declaration

Exactly as the bag prints it, heaviest first

SALT DIVIDER

Deboned Beef, Pork And Bone Meal, Salmon Meal, Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, Peas, Pea Protein, Pork Fat Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols, Natural Flavor, Potato Protein, Beef Hearts, Beef Liver, Sunflower Oil, Miscanthus Grass, Dried Yeast, Flaxseed, Potassium Chloride, Tapioca, Salt*The Salt Divider. Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after this point is present in an even smaller amount., Apples, Salmon Oil, Blueberries, Choline Chloride, MINERALS [Zinc Amino Acid Complex, Iron Amino Acid Complex, Sodium Selenite, Manganese Amino Acid Complex, Copper Amino Acid Complex, Calcium Iodate], DL-Methionine, Taurine, VITAMINS [Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Niacin (Vitamin B-3), Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), Folic Acid (Vitamin B-9), Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B-2), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Vitamin K), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Biotin (Vitamin B-7), Vitamin D-3 Supplement], Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols, Dried Bacillus Coagulans Fermentation Product. C277325

Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after the divider is present in an even smaller amount.

NUTRITION, DRY MATTER
NUTRIENT AS FED DRY M. READING
PROTEIN 32.0% 36.0% HIGH
FAT 15.0% 16.9% n/a
FIBER 3.5% 3.9% n/a
CARB (EST.) 32.5% 36.5% TYPICAL
STARCH RATIO 32.5% KIBBLE AVG 38.0%
PRICE BY BAG SIZE

What a bag costs

BAG LOWEST PRICE PER LB WHERE
4 lb $25.98LIVE $6.50 Amazon lowest of 9 stores
10 lb $55.98 $5.60 Chewy lowest of 8 stores
12 lb $52.99 $4.42 PetSmart
20 lb $70.98 $3.55 PetSmart

Prices marked LIVE were read from the store on Oct 5. Others are from our check on Sep 27. Prices change often; the store’s price at checkout is the one that counts. We may earn a commission on some links.

HOW MUCH TO FEED

Daily portion calculator

Weight
45 lb
Weight goal
OF THIS FOOD, PER DAY
2.4CUPS
    1,076 kcal297 g

    Calculated from the resting energy formula vets use and this food’s actual calorie density (449 kcal per cup). A starting point to adjust from, not a prescription.

    RECALL HISTORY // MERRICK

    1 FDA Recall On Record

    MAY 23, 2018
    INGREDIENT LEVEL

    ‎Beef dog treat varieties Matched by brand. The notice lists the exact products and lots.

    None in the last three years. Older events stay on the record. See the recall log

    SAME LINE

    Other Flavors

    Full Source Grain-Free Raw-Coated Kibble with Beef & Bison 36.0% Full Source Grain-Free Raw-Coated Kibble with Chicken & Duck 38.2% Full Source with Healthy Grains Raw-Coated Kibble with Lamb & Venison 29.2% Full Source with Healthy Grains Raw-Coated Kibble with Salmon & Whitefish 33.7%

    Protein on a dry matter basis, read the same way.

    One honest caveat. These figures are what a label will tell us: protein, starch, the top of the ingredient list, flagged additives and the brand’s recall record. They cannot tell you whether your dog will do well on this food. Allergies, gut sensitivity, age and health conditions all matter more than any of it, and none of them are printed on a bag. If your dog is thriving on a food whose figures read lower than this one, that is not a mistake, and we would not switch on our say-so.

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