Cheese in Dog Food: Which Recipes List It
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Cheese shows up across the Dog Food Library, a compiled set of manufacturer-published details for 958 dog foods sold in the United States. This page collects the facts as the manufacturers themselves state them: how many recipes list cheese, where it typically sits in the ingredient order, and which specific products carry it, with links to check any food's full spec sheet directly.
What Cheese Is on a Label
Cheese is a dairy ingredient. It is listed by name, sometimes with the type specified.
How Many of the 958 Foods List Cheese
32 of the 958 foods in the Dog Food Library list cheese in their ingredient panel, as compiled from each manufacturer's own product page. Of those 32 foods, 1 list cheese among the first five ingredients on the label, and the remaining 31 list it later in the panel. Ingredient order on these labels follows pre-cooking weight, so a fresh or wet ingredient can rank higher than a dried one that contributes more to the finished recipe.
Foods That List Cheese
The Dog Food Library lists 32 foods with cheese on the label. Below are 25 of them, shown as brand and recipe name and linked to that food's full spec sheet.
- Fromm: Classic Adult Adult Dry
- Fromm: Classic Adult Large Giant Breed Adult Dry
- Fromm: Classic Mature Adult Senior Dry
- Fromm: Classic Puppy Puppy Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Beef Frittata Veg Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Chicken A LA Veg Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Chicken AU Frommage Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Duck A LA Veg Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Hasen Duckenpfeffer All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Highlander Beef Oats N Barley Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Lamb Lentil Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Pork Applesauce Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Pork Peas Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Salmon A LA Veg Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Salmon Tunalini Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Surf Turf Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Four Star Whitefish Potato Recipe All Life Stages Dry
- Fromm: Gold Coast Weight Management Adult Dry
- Fromm: Gold Large Breed Adult Adult Dry
- Fromm: Gold Large Breed Puppy Puppy Dry
- Fromm: Gold Large Breed Weight Management Adult Dry
- Fromm: Gold Puppy Puppy Dry
- Fromm: Gold Small Breed Adult Adult Dry
- Fromm: Gold Weight Management Adult Dry
- Fromm: Gold With Ancient Grains Adult Adult Dry
How to Check a Specific Food
To look up whether a particular food lists cheese, and where, open its entry on the Dog Food Library by brand or put it side by side with another food using the dog food comparison tool. Both pages pull from the same manufacturer-sourced data used to build this page.
For between-meal variety that keeps the main recipe unchanged, browse single ingredient freeze dried dog treats from Sniff and Shift.
Data from maker product pages as compiled for the Dog Food Library; counts as of September 23, 2026.
Questions about cheese in dog food
How many of the 958 dog foods in the library list cheese?
32 of the 958 foods in the Dog Food Library list cheese on their ingredient panel, as compiled from manufacturer product pages.
Where does cheese usually appear in the ingredient order?
Of the 32 foods that list cheese, 1 show it among the first five ingredients and 31 show it later in the list, based on each manufacturer's own published order.
Which brands include cheese in the Dog Food Library?
Examples in the Dog Food Library include Fromm and The Honest Kitchen, among the 32 foods that list cheese; see the full list on this page.
