Dog Chow Complete Adult With Real Chicken
Dry food · 44 lb bagDog foodScored October 2026
- Flags
- 66 caution
- Ingredients
- 23all in our library
- Brand grade
- Ctransparency, costs 5 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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Dog Chow Complete Adult With Real Chicken
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Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
6 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.
Meat and bone meal
An unnamed-mammal protein with high bone content; the least transparent protein you can buy.
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.
Artificial colors
Purely cosmetic. Your pet doesn't care what color the food is; dyes add risk with zero benefit.
Garlic
An allium that damages red blood cells at high doses; flavoring amounts are considered safe, but cats and some breeds are more sensitive.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
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23 ingredients. 9 of them carry this product's 6 flags and are marked below. The other 14 raised no flag.
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 Dog Chow, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Purina Dog Chow.
The brand behind it.
Purina Dog Chow
Long-running grocery kibble on whole-grain corn, meat and bone meal, and dye.
Corn and unnamed meal base with BHA and added color. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.
Purina Dog Chow 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 4 times.
- Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 63 → 67: removed “Unnamed animal ingredients”. “Unnamed animal ingredients” was a flag of our own for lines that don't say which animal they come from. We retired it on October 24, 2026 for the entries our library has for those lines, each counted once. The only line behind it was “Meat and bone meal”, which already carried Meat and bone meal, so the line was being counted twice.
- Oct 4, 2026 Panel Score 67 → 63: 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 Removed the “BHA (preservative)” flag. Panel Score 51 → 67. The panel we hold lists no BHA; its fat is beef fat preserved with mixed tocopherols. The flag had been carried over from an earlier summary of the panel, which the full panel replaced on Sep 21 2026.
- Sep 21, 2026 Panel Score 67 → 51: added flags for Garlic, Meat and bone meal, Meat flavor and digest and Natural flavor. The printed panel lists it and our record was not carrying the flag.
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