Corn

PETLYTIC SCORE

Acceptable

20/100 risk index

Corn is a common pet food ingredient with a mixed record. Here's what the data says about its safety, nutritional value, and how it's used across the brands in our database.

THE HONEST ANSWER

Common carbohydrate filler. Digestible but lower nutritional value than whole grains.

FDA PET STATUS

GRAS

FDA HUMAN STATUS

Not evaluated

EFSA STATUS

Not evaluated

NTP CARCINOGEN

Not listed

What Corn actually is

Common carbohydrate filler. Digestible but lower nutritional value than whole grains.

Why it's still in pet food when human food has moved on

Two reasons: cost and regulatory inertia. Pet food regulation lags human food regulation by decades. Premium brands have largely moved away from it. The cheap ones still use it.

WHICH BRANDS STILL USE CORN

We checked every brand in our database. Here's the partial list — the products with the highest sales volume that still include this ingredient.

BRAND	PRODUCT	CATEGORY	SCORE
Royal Canin	Royal Canin Breed Health Nutrition Labrador Retriever Adult Dry Dog Food 30 lb	dry dog	66
Eukanuba	Eukanuba Adult Maintenance Moyenne Race	other	64
Royal Canin	Royal Canin Indoor Adult Dry Cat Food 15 lb	dry cat	64
Royal Canin	Royal Canin Neutered Satiety Balance veterinary care nutrition 12 kg	dry cat	63
Eukanuba	Eukanuba Adult Chicken Dry Dog Food 30 lb	dry dog	62
Authority	Authority Adult Chicken & Rice Dry Dog Food 35 lb	dry dog	62
Purina One	Salmon Adult Cat Food	dry cat	60
Eukanuba	Breed Specific Boxer	other	59
Eukanuba	Activ Adult	other	59
Royal Canin	Oral Care	dry cat	57
Royal Canin	RoyalCanin care Digestive	other	56
Royal Canin	yorkshire puppy	dry dog	56
Royal Canin	sterilised mini	other	56
Royal Canin	Urinary Care	dry cat	54
Royal Canin	Weight Care	dry dog	48
Royal Canin	Adulte Berger Allemand	dry dog	46
Affinity	Advance puppy snack	dry dog	45
Royal Canin	rc dog dry shn xsmall 1.5kg	dry dog	43
Lider	Reflex	dry dog	43
ULTIMA	ultima nature adulte poulet	dry cat	40

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