Original Grain-Free Pâté Variety Pack

Safety and recall record

We found no FDA-listed recalls or withdrawals for this brand line from 2016 to today.

Nutrition standards (WSAVA)

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association guidelines tell owners to ask a pet food company who formulates its food and how qualified they are, who makes it, what quality checks it runs, and whether it publishes research. If a company can't or won't answer, WSAVA says to be cautious. We use the answers each maker gave the Pet Nutrition Alliance, which puts those questions to pet food companies.

Maker: Instinct (Nature’s Variety).

• ✓Qualified nutritionist. Employs a full-time board-certified veterinary nutritionist (DACVIM Nutrition or ECVCN).8/8
• ½Makes its own food. Owns 25% of the plants that make its food; uses a contract manufacturer for the rest.1.5/6
• ✓Answers the questions. Answered the survey and shared nutrient data on request.5/5
• ✗Published research. No in-house research program publishing in peer-reviewed journals that we could find.0/6

What owners say

Rated 3.8 out of 5 across 953 ratings on Chewy. Ratings from a small number of shoppers get pulled toward the average, so for scoring this counts as 3.94.

Value

At $35.99 for 66 oz, this costs $0.55 per oz, above the middle of the wet cat foods we graded.

Details

Grades compare products within the same category only. We don't test products ourselves or judge individual recipes, and every food here is sold as complete and balanced. Nutrition standards rate the maker against WSAVA's questions, using answers collected by the Pet Nutrition Alliance in 2022. How we grade.