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Freshpet Fresh From the Kitchen - Home Cooked Chicken Recipe
A formulated-to-meet, chicken-first fresh food from Freshpet. Pricing and/or calorie data haven't been independently confirmed for this SKU yet, so cost-per-day isn't shown.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — data as JSON · reference dog 40 lb · updated 2026-07-11
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. Corpus dot-anchors currently cover dry food only — this is a fresh food, so anchors are omitted below rather than compared across forms.
verified 2026-07-11
Composition — dry-matter basis
why dry matter
Calories & cost — for your 40-lb adult dog
No cost per 1,000 kcal yet: we haven't matched this food to a current Amazon listing. Serving math uses standard veterinary energy formulas — see the formula.
Standards & ingredients
what this means
why unknown
Safety
Source: official label source (official) · anchors: 494 verified dry dog foods (360 priced) · how to read this label
The fit
For your dog, specifically
Checked for a 40-lb adult with a sensitive stomach — the same published criteria our finder uses. Change your dog above and these update.
The source material
The full ingredient list
Every flag above is computed from this list. Why order is by pre-cooking weight, and how splitting bends it →
Chicken, Eggs, Cranberries, Carrots, Ground Oats, Natural Flavors, Fish Oil, Potassium Chloride, Spinach, Paprika, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid), Minerals (Zinc Proteinate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Sodium Selenite, Calcium Iodate)
1 ingredient in this list is ones we hold sourced evidence on , and none of them is contested in the veterinary literature.
- Fish oil (EPA + DHA omega-3) · ingredient 7Well supportedMarine-source omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) from fish oil. A randomized, double-blinded controlled trial (Roush 2010) found improved weight-bearing in dogs with osteoarthritis, and a 2022 meta-analysis identified clear clinical analgesic efficacy for omega-3-enriched diets and supplements.
The maker
Who makes this — and how they back it up
The five 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.
10-K states Freshpet owns and operates its own 'Freshpet Kitchens' facilities in Bethlehem, PA and Ennis, TX.
source →Names Lisa Weeth, DVM, DACVIM (Nutrition), a full-time Freshpet employee. Page also lists PhD-holding staff scientists including Gerardo Pérez-Camargo, DVM, PhD and Eden Ephraim, PhD.
source →says: Freshpet conducts AAFCO feeding trials (not stated whether all or some foods). Vet page (fp2) adds 'we do both' lab analysis and feeding trials, 'often complementing lab analysis with feeding trials to measure palatability and digestibility'. None of the 4 AAFCO statements we read on its labels says "animal feeding tests".
source →covers: finished-product pathogen testing; same bullet list also says 'Rigorous ingredient testing for nutrients, contaminants, and pathogens' (ingredient testing, toxin/contaminant testing). Freshpet vet-facing page.
source →3 PubMed papers (animal/pet filtered) list Freshpet in an author address; we checked 3 and 3 really name the company. A floor, not a total.
source →Full company scorecard, sources, and every SKU we've verified for this brand: Freshpet brand page →