Kitten Complete Essentials Chicken & Rice
Purina Pro Plan Kitten Complete Essentials Chicken & Rice is a dry kitten food with grains. Its first ingredients are chicken, rice and chicken by-product meal. It has an Ingredients score of 54/100, a Nutrition score of 7.5/10 and 1 item on our Avoid List. The lowest price we found is $3.34/lb (16 lb bag at Chewy).
Label checked Oct 24, 2026 · Price checked Oct 26, 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
- 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
- 2.9 / 5
- Average of the other 22 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 42%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 39% and 49%
- Fat 19%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 22%
- Carbohydrates 17.5%
- 5 / 5
- Full points between 15% and 25%. Our estimate: the label does not list ash.
- Fiber 2.5%
- not scored
- Shown for information.
- Unnamed animal source
- × 0.75
- poultry by-product meal, fish meal do not name the animal. Score before: 10/10.
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) | 42% | 47.7% |
| Fat (min) | 19% | 21.6% |
| Fiber (max) | 2.5% | 2.8% |
| Ash | not listed | - |
| Carbohydrates (estimate) | 17.5% | 19.9% |
| Moisture (max) | 12% | - |
| Calories | 4,470 kcal/kg · 633 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, chicken by-product meal, corn protein meal, beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols, soybean meal, soy protein isolate, poultry by-product meal, dried egg product, fish meal, natural flavor, wheat flour, soybean oil, sodium caseinate, phosphoric acid, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, sodium bisulfate, fish oil, calcium carbonate, DL-Methionine, choline chloride, salt, potassium chloride, 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], taurine, dried Bacillus coagulans fermentation product
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 24, 2026 ·Maker's page ·Suggest a correction