Beneful Originals With Farm-Raised Beef
Dry food · 36 lb bagDog foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 44 caution
- Ingredients
- 28all in our library
- Brand grade
- Ctransparency, costs 5 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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Beneful Originals With Farm-Raised Beef
Good, check the flags
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
4 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.
Added color
Color added for the buyer's eye, not a synthetic dye; your pet does not care what color it is.
Meat flavor and digest
A rendered palatant from animal tissue; the vaguer the name, the less you know.
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.
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28 ingredients. 5 of them carry this product's 4 flags and are marked below. The other 23 raised no flag.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
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See all pet recallsBeneful, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Beneful.
The brand behind it.
Beneful
Purina's mid-tier line: real beef or chicken up front, then corn, soybean meal, and cosmetic dye.
Names its lead meat but leans on corn, soy, and added color. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.
Beneful 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 3 times.
- Oct 4, 2026 Panel Score 79 → 75: added a caution for Menadione (vitamin K3). The panel lists “menadione sodium bisulfite complex” inside its vitamin line. Until October 4, 2026 we read that whole line as a vitamin premix, so the record was not carrying the flag.
- Sep 22, 2026 “Artificial colors” is now “Added color”. The score did not change. The panel lists annatto color and carmine, not a synthetic dye such as Red 40.
- Sep 21, 2026 Panel Score 87 → 79: added flags for Meat flavor and digest and Natural flavor. The printed panel lists it and our record was not carrying the flag.
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