Best soft & training treats, ranked.

A clean, low-cost lickable cat treat (water, tuna, chicken) with no by-products or preservatives and honest intermittent-feeding framing; transparent and recall-clean, priced well against other lickable tubes.

A clean tuna-and-water lickable cat treat with a named base, transparent and recall-clean, with honest feed-as-a-treat framing; priced against other lickable tubes it lands fair on value.

A named-meat training treat with no health claims and a tiny 2 kcal per piece, though it contains cane sugar and saw a 2021 mold withdrawal; transparent and inexpensive.

A clean, named-base cat treat with portion guidance, but its hairball-control claim is a structure-function benefit a treat cannot substantiate (this is the SmartBites line, not the VOHC-accepted Feline Greenies Dental Treats).

A named-meat soft treat that is recall-clean and free of artificial colors and BHA, but it leans on cane molasses, does not state calories on the US label (so Caloric Load is capped), and the per-bag piece count is approximate.

A named-meat soft training treat, but it adds cane sugar and makes a 'DHA for cognitive development' claim a 4-kcal bit cannot meaningfully support; transparent on calories, light on portion guidance.