Best Grain-Free Dry Cat Food

We list 53 grain-free dry cat foods. Ingredients scores range from 54 to 91 out of 100. 47 of 53 have nothing on the Avoid List. Chicken is the first ingredient in 23 of 53.

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Highest Ingredients score: Orijen Guardian 8 (91)Lowest price per pound: Earthborn Holistic Wild Sea Catch ($2.53/lb)

Ranked by our Ingredients score. Foods with nothing on the Avoid List and a Nutrition score of at least 6/10 come first, the rest follow. No brand pays for its place.

Top 10

#	Food	Ingredients	Nutrition	Price per lb
1	Orijen Guardian 8	91	10/10	$7.10
2	Orijen Kitten	91	10/10	$7.14
3	Orijen Original Cat	91	10/10	$6.33
4	Acana Highest Protein Wild Atlantic	90	9.9/10	$5.60
5	Go! Solutions Carnivore Grain Free Chicken, Turkey + Duck Recipe	90	9.6/10	$5.10
6	Instinct Raw Boost Kibble Real Chicken Recipe	88	10/10	$4.55
7	Tiki Cat Born Carnivore Herring & Salmon	87	10/10	$4.79
8	Instinct Original Kibble Real Chicken Recipe	86	10/10	$4.09
9	Taste of the Wild Lowland Creek Feline Recipe with Roasted Quail & Roasted Duck	84	9.8/10	$2.86
10	Wellness CORE Grain Free Original Deboned Turkey, Turkey Meal & Chicken Meal	83	10/10	$3.89

All 53, in Ranked Order

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Foods are grouped by what the maker says on the label (life stage, grains, weight control). How we score