Tender & Crunchy With Real Beef & Rice
Dry foodDog foodScored September 2026
- Flags
- 77 caution
- Ingredients
- 471 not in our library yet
- Brand grade
- Dtransparency, costs 8 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyPurina Puppy Chow
Tender & Crunchy With Real Beef & Rice
Proceed with caution
Scored September 2026 · checkthepanel.com
7 flagged ingredients.
Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.
Animal fat
Rendered fat from unnamed species, and the ingredient where BHA most often hides.
Meat and bone meal
An unnamed-mammal protein with high bone content; the least transparent protein you can buy.
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what your pet is actually tasting.
Menadione (vitamin K3)
A synthetic vitamin K linked to liver stress in high doses; safer natural forms exist.
Artificial colors
Dyes that exist to sell the food to you; your pet does not care what color it is.
Garlic
An allium that damages red blood cells at high doses; flavoring amounts are considered safe, but cats and some breeds are more sensitive.
Meat flavor and digest
A rendered palatant from animal tissue; the vaguer the name, the less you know.
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.
47 ingredients. 10 of them carry this product's 7 flags and are marked below. The other 36 raised no flag. 1 line isn't in our library yet, so we couldn't check it; it's marked Not checked.
- 11egg flavorNot checked
1 of the 47 ingredient lines have no entry in our library yet and stayed plain above. We could not check them, so they count for nothing in the score, for or against. Tell us what we missed.
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 recallsPurina Puppy Chow, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Purina Puppy Chow.
The brand behind it.
Purina Puppy Chow
Graded from the 1 product of theirs in this catalogue, not from an audit of the company.
Read off the 1 of 1 carry unnamed by-products, meat meal or unnamed animal fat, and 1 add colour among the 1 panel we hold. Seeing that once is evidence of a practice; a clean panel once is not. The D grade takes 8 points off this product's score.
Purina Puppy Chow brand pageIndependent 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 Panel Score 64 → 60: added a caution for Meat flavor and digest. The panel lists “poultry digest” and “pork digest”. Our ingredient library did not recognise that wording until these lines were added on September 22, 2026, so the record was not carrying the flag.
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