Beef Meal & Rice Adult
Dry food · 40 lb bagDog foodScored September 2026
- Flags
- 11 caution
- Ingredients
- 58all in our library
- Brand grade
- Btransparency, costs 2 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyDiamond Naturals
Beef Meal & Rice Adult
Pretty good
Scored September 2026 · checkthepanel.com
1 flagged ingredient.
Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
Listed by weight, so the first few lines are most of the food. Tap any line to see what it is and why it's there.
58 ingredients. 1 of them carries this product's flag and is marked below. The other 57 raised no flag.
Checked against the brand's own page on Sep 22, 2026. A package on the shelf can be older or newer than that page; trust the one in your hand.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
We link recalls by hand from FDA notices. Only a recall linked to this product counts in its score.
See all pet recallsDiamond Naturals, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Diamond Naturals.
The brand behind it.
Diamond Naturals
Value-priced named-meat recipes from Diamond Pet Foods; the company's 2012 Salmonella recall touched several Diamond-made lines.
Names its meat sources on the panel. The B grade takes 2 points off this product's score.
Diamond Naturals brand page
Independent testing & contaminants
No independent testing on file.
Third-party lab findings for things that never appear on an ingredient label. This is separate from the score above and does not change it.
We haven't found published third-party lab results (PFAS, heavy metals, phthalates) for this product. That is not a clean bill of health, just an absence of data.
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This page was corrected once.
- Sep 22, 2026 Replaced the summary panel with the ingredient list the brand publishes on its website. Panel Score 94 → 90: added a caution for Natural flavor. The earlier panel was written from a search summary in July 2026 and had not been checked. The new list comes from the brand's own website, checked on September 22, 2026.
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