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Kitten Ocean Fish & Brown Rice Recipe
A feeding-trial-validated dry food from Hill's Science Diet, denser per cup than 100% of the dry cat foods we've verified. Price-matched at $3.58 per 1,000 kcal, verified 2026-07-12.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — data as JSON · reference cat 10 lb · updated 2026-07-12
The evidence
The Verified Label
Every food on this site gets this exact panel — same fields, same order, sourced from the official label — so brands finally become comparable. Dots show where this food sits among all 283 dry cat foods we've verified.
verified 2026-07-12
Composition — dry-matter basis
why dry matter
We only publish numbers verified from official label sources; we haven't verified this label yet. The guaranteed analysis exists on the package — it just isn't in our verified record so far.
why 0.12% DM
Calories & cost — for your 10-lb adult cat
Cost per 1,000 kcal: $3.58 — price-matched to a current retail listing (3.5-lb size), verified 2026-07-12. Serving math uses standard veterinary energy formulas — see the formula.
Standards & ingredients
what this means
why unknown
Safety
Source: official label source (official) · anchors: 283 verified dry cat foods · how to read this label
The fit
For your cat, specifically
Checked for a 10-lb adult cat with urinary health + a low-carb goal — the same published criteria our finder uses. Change your cat above and these update.
The source material
The full ingredient list
Every flag on the Verified Label is computed from this list. Ingredients are ordered by pre-cooking weight — the first five carry the most information.
Ocean Fish, Brown Rice, Wheat Gluten, Chicken Meal, Chicken Fat, Whole Grain Oats, Pea Protein, Brewers Rice, Egg Product, Chicken Liver Flavor, Ground Pecan Shells, Lactic Acid, Dicalcium Phosphate, Potassium Chloride, Flaxseed, Dried Beet Pulp, Dried Citrus Pulp, Calcium Sulfate, Choline Chloride, L-Lysine, DL-Methionine, Iodized Salt, Pressed Cranberries, Taurine, vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (source of Vitamin C), Thiamine Mononitrate, Niacin Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Fish Oil, Cysteine, minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite), Magnesium Oxide, Mixed Tocopherols for freshness, Natural Flavors, Beta-Carotene
The maker
Who makes this — and how they back it up
The four questions the WSAVA nutrition guidelines tell you to ask a pet-food company. Every answer is sourced or marked as an undisclosed gap — never guessed. This is the "is it made competently?" axis that star-rating sites skip.
Same source: 'Hill's is currently building a new canned pet food manufacturing facility in Kansas... and in May completed the acquisition of a canned pet food plant in Italy from Nutriamo.' Indicates Hill's owns and operates its own manufacturing plants.
source →Hill's explicitly employs four ACVN Diplomates (board-certified veterinary nutritionists) plus PhD nutritionists per same page ('Our staff of PhD nutritionists, food scientists, flavorists and veterinarians').
source →238 of 309 verified labels in our corpus carry an AAFCO feeding-trial substantiation statement.
source →174 PubMed-indexed papers carry "Hill's Pet Nutrition" in an author affiliation (animal/pet-domain filtered) — a reproducible floor, not a total.
source →Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: Hill's Science Diet brand page →