Adult Complete Essentials Chicken & Rice Formula
Purina Pro Plan Adult Complete Essentials Chicken & Rice Formula is a dry adult cat food with grains. Its first ingredients are chicken, rice and corn protein meal. It has an Ingredients score of 46/100, a Nutrition score of 4.9/10 and 2 items on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $3.34/lb (16 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%.
- Chicken
- 5 / 5
- Named animal protein
- Rice
- 1 / 5
- Starch or refined grain
- Corn protein meal
- 1 / 5
- Plant protein concentrate
- Poultry by-product meal
- 2 / 5
- By-product meal
- Wheat flour
- 1 / 5
- Wheat
- Other ingredients
- 2.9 / 5
- Average of the other 17 ingredients
Avoid List
2The label lists caramel color (artificial color), 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 27%
- 4.6 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 25%. Our estimate: the label does not list ash.
- Fiber 2%
- not scored
- Shown for information.
- Unnamed animal source
- × 0.5
- poultry by-product meal, fish meal do not name the animal. At least one is in the first 5 ingredients. Score before: 9.9/10.
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) | 36% | 40.9% |
| Fat (min) | 16% | 18.2% |
| Fiber (max) | 2% | 2.3% |
| Ash | not listed | - |
| Carbohydrates (estimate) | 27% | 30.7% |
| Moisture (max) | 12% | - |
| Calories | 4,358 kcal/kg · 494 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)
Chicken, rice, corn protein meal, poultry by-product meal, wheat flour, dried egg product, beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols, soy protein concentrate, natural flavor, fish meal, dried chicory root, potassium chloride, phosphoric acid, calcium carbonate, salt, caramel color, VITAMINS [Vitamin E supplement, niacin (Vitamin B-3), Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), folic acid (Vitamin B-9), Vitamin D-3 supplement, biotin (Vitamin B-7), menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K)], choline chloride, taurine, MINERALS [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], L-Lysine monohydrochloride, dried Bacillus coagulans fermentation product
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 27, 2026 ·Maker's page ·Suggest a correction