Purrfect Bistro Grain Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Recipe
Merrick Purrfect Bistro Grain Free Salmon & Sweet Potato Recipe is a grain-free dry adult cat food. Its first ingredients are salmon, chicken meal and pea starch. It has an Ingredients score of 57/100, a Nutrition score of 9.9/10 and 1 item on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $3.58/lb (12 lb bag at Chewy).
Label checked Oct 29, 2026 · Price checked Oct 29, 2026
How It Scores
The first 5 ingredients count for 70%, the rest for 30%.
- Salmon
- 5 / 5
- Named animal protein
- Chicken meal
- 5 / 5
- Named animal protein
- Pea starch
- 1 / 5
- Starch or refined grain
- Potato protein
- 2 / 5
- Plant protein
- Cassava root flour
- 1 / 5
- Starch or refined grain
- Other ingredients
- 2.9 / 5
- Average of the other 17 ingredients
Avoid List
1The label lists menadione (synthetic vitamin K3).
The number of unwanted additives on the label, counted separately from the two scores: 0 is best. How we score
Adult targets. Values as listed on the label.
- Protein 36%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 35% and 45%
- Fat 16%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 22%
- Carbohydrates 26%
- 4.8 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 25%. Our estimate: the label does not list ash.
- Fiber 3%
- not scored
- Shown for information.
What Is in It
Dry matter means the food with the water taken out. It lets you compare foods with different moisture fairly.
| On the label | Dry matter | |
|---|---|---|
| Protein (min) | 36% | 40.9% |
| Fat (min) | 16% | 18.2% |
| Fiber (max) | 3% | 3.4% |
| Ash | not listed | - |
| Carbohydrates (estimate) | 26% | 29.5% |
| Moisture (max) | 12% | - |
| Calories | 3,822 kcal/kg · 467 kcal/cup | |
Label numbers are limits, not exact amounts: protein and fat are minimums, fiber and moisture are maximums.
Labels do not list carbohydrates, and this one does not list ash either. We estimate carbohydrates by assuming 7% ash, a typical value for dry cat food, and subtracting everything else from 100.
First 5 Ingredients
Ingredients are listed by weight, heaviest first. The first few usually make up most of the food.
All Ingredients (Label Order)
Salmon, chicken meal, pea starch, potato protein, cassava root flour, dried yeast, canola meal, beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols, dried egg product, sweet potatoes, natural flavor, dried chicory root, phosphoric acid, flaxseed, sodium bisulfate, potassium chloride, choline chloride, salt, calcium carbonate, taurine, Vitamins [Vitamin E supplement, niacin (Vitamin B-3), thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin A supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Vitamin B-12 supplement, folic acid (Vitamin B-9), biotin (Vitamin B-7), Vitamin D-3 supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K)], Minerals [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite]
Estimated Monthly Cost
By your cat's weight, using the maker's daily amount and the cheapest bag. Your cat may eat more or less.
The maker gives the daily amount as a range by weight. We worked out the amount for each weight from that range, so it is an estimate.
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Last checked: Oct 29, 2026 ·Maker's page ·Suggest a correction