Sugars

PETLYTIC SCORE

High Concern

80/100 risk index

Sugars appears in the ingredient lists of thousands of pet foods. Here's what the regulatory record, toxicology data, and veterinary nutrition research actually say about it — not the marketing copy on the bag.

FDA PET STATUS

Not evaluated

FDA HUMAN STATUS

Not evaluated

EFSA STATUS

Not evaluated

NTP CARCINOGEN

Not listed

What Sugars actually is

Sugars is a additive commonly found in commercial pet food. It is sourced from synthetic origins and is classified as avoid quality by Chowmark's scoring rubric.

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 SUGARS

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
Frolic	Frolic mini	dry dog	46
Conad	Petfriends Biscotti Assortiti	dry dog	40
Kitekat	Kitekat Huhn in Gelee	dry cat	40
Casino	Biscuits Fourres Chiens 500G	treat dog	40

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