Tender Selects Blend With Real Salmon
Purina ONE Tender Selects Blend With Real Salmon is a dry adult cat food with grains. Its first ingredients are salmon, rice and chicken by-product meal. It has an Ingredients score of 52/100, a Nutrition score of 9.6/10 and 1 item on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $1.90/lb (22 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
- Rice
- 1 / 5
- Starch or refined grain
- Chicken by-product meal
- 2 / 5
- By-product meal
- Corn protein meal
- 1 / 5
- Plant protein concentrate
- Beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols
- 4 / 5
- Named animal fat
- Other ingredients
- 2.5 / 5
- Average of the other 24 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 34%
- 4.8 / 5
- Full points between 35% and 45%
- Fat 15%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 22%
- Carbohydrates 28%
- 4.4 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 25%. Total carbohydrates on the label minus dietary fiber.
- Fiber 10%
- 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) | 34% | 38.6% |
| Fat (min) | 15% | 17% |
| Dietary fiber (max) | 10% | 11.4% |
| Ash | not listed | - |
| Carbohydrates (max) | 38% | 43.2% |
| Moisture (max) | 12% | - |
| Calories | 402 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)
Salmon, rice, chicken by-product meal, corn protein meal, beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols, soybean meal, whole grain corn, wheat flour, soy protein isolate, soy protein concentrate, natural flavor, dried chicory root, glycerin, chicken, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, salt, choline chloride, dried carrots, dried peas, sodium bisulfate, malted barley extract, 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], L-Cysteine, DL-Methionine
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