Kitten Chow Year One Essentials with Real Chicken
Purina Cat Chow Kitten Chow Year One Essentials with Real Chicken is a dry kitten food with grains. Its first ingredients are poultry by-product meal, corn protein meal and rice. It has an Ingredients score of 37/100, a Nutrition score of 4.9/10 and 1 item on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $1.22/lb (14 lb bag at Chewy).
Label checked Oct 27, 2026 · Price checked Oct 27, 2026
How It Scores
The first 5 ingredients count for 70%, the rest for 30%.
- Poultry by-product meal
- 2 / 5
- By-product meal
- Corn protein meal
- 1 / 5
- Plant protein concentrate
- Rice
- 1 / 5
- Starch or refined grain
- Soybean meal
- 1 / 5
- Soy
- Animal fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
- 2 / 5
- Animal fat, species not named
- Other ingredients
- 2.8 / 5
- Average of the other 13 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
Kitten targets. Values as listed on the label.
- Protein 40%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 39% and 49%
- Fat 13.5%
- 4.6 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 22%
- Carbohydrates 21.5%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 25%. Total carbohydrates on the label minus dietary fiber.
- Fiber 11%
- not scored
- Shown for information.
- Unnamed animal source
- × 0.5
- Poultry by-product meal, animal fat preserved with mixed tocopherols, fish meal do not name the animal. At least one is in the first 5 ingredients. Score before: 9.7/10.
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) | 40% | 45.5% |
| Fat (min) | 13.5% | 15.3% |
| Dietary fiber (max) | 11% | 12.5% |
| Ash | not listed | - |
| Carbohydrates (max) | 32.5% | 36.9% |
| Moisture (max) | 12% | - |
| Calories | 503 kcal/cup | |
Label numbers are limits, not exact amounts: protein and fat are minimums, fiber and moisture are maximums.
This bag uses the new US label format, which lists carbohydrates and dietary fiber directly.
First 5 Ingredients
Ingredients are listed by weight, heaviest first. The first few usually make up most of the food.
All Ingredients (Label Order)
Poultry by-product meal, corn protein meal, rice, soybean meal, animal fat preserved with mixed tocopherols, ground whole wheat, chicken, fish meal, liver flavor, dried yeast, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, salt, choline chloride, MINERALS [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], 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)], taurine, potassium chloride
Estimated Monthly Cost
Kittens eat more as they grow. By age, using the maker's daily amount and the cheapest bag.
The maker gives the daily amount as a range by age. We worked out the amount for each age from that range, so it is an estimate.
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Last checked: Oct 27, 2026 ·Maker's page ·Suggest a correction