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Best Dry Cat Food Without Dyes

We list 123 dry cat foods without added colors. Ingredients scores range from 33 to 91 out of 100. 91 of 123 have nothing on the Avoid List. Chicken is the first ingredient in 55 of 123.

Highest Ingredients score: Orijen Guardian 8 (91)Lowest price per pound: Purina Cat Chow Kitten Chow Year One Essentials with Real Chicken ($1.22/lb)

Ranked by our Ingredients score. Foods with nothing on the Avoid List and a Nutrition score of at least 6/10 come first, the rest follow. No brand pays for its place.

Top 10

#FoodIngredientsNutritionAvoid ListPrice per lb
1Orijen Guardian 89110/100$7.10
2Orijen Kitten9110/100$7.14
3Orijen Original Cat9110/100$6.33
4Acana Highest Protein Wild Atlantic909.9/100$5.60
5Go! Solutions Carnivore Grain Free Chicken, Turkey + Duck Recipe909.6/100$5.10
6Instinct Raw Boost Kibble Real Chicken Recipe8810/100$4.55
7Tiki Cat Born Carnivore Herring & Salmon8710/100$4.79
8Instinct Original Kibble Real Chicken Recipe8610/100$4.09
9Taste of the Wild Lowland Creek Feline Recipe with Roasted Quail & Roasted Duck849.8/100$2.86
10Wellness CORE Grain Free Original Deboned Turkey, Turkey Meal & Chicken Meal8310/100$3.89

All 123, in Ranked Order

A food counts as dye-free when its label lists none of the colors on our Avoid List, such as Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 2 or titanium dioxide. How we score