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Beneful

Owned by Nestlé Purina PetCare Kibble / retail 1 recall high

Nestlé Purina grocery brand spanning dry food, wet tubs and prepared blends. Guaranteed analysis, calorie content and the verbatim AAFCO statement are published in a per-product label-deck PDF linked from each product page rather than shown on the page itself.

Beneful is owned by Nestlé Purina PetCare (Nestlé S.A.). Of the 5 foods we hold, 5 publish a guaranteed analysis, 5 a calorie statement, 5 an ingredient list and 5 an AAFCO adequacy statement. Those counts are what the transparency mark above records — how we read a label.

Recall history

1 event on record, newest first. The marker is filled where the notice reports illness or death and hollow where it does not; that is read from the notice, not scored. Every event links to its own source.

  1. 2016

  2. 2016-03

    Beneful Illness or death reported

    Tubs "may not contain the recommended level of added vitamins and minerals" (Purina's wording); found by Purina's own testing.

    Beneful Prepared Meals and Beneful Chopped Blends wet dog food 10-oz. tubs, all varieties (also Pro Plan Savory Meals 10-oz., 5 varieties). Best Before Jun 2017-Aug 2017; production codes 5363-6054.

    Voluntary; sold in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico; one line at one plant. Announcement does not address illness reports.

    Source newscenter.purina.com ↗ Captured 2026-07-25 Methodology

All 32 events in the recall tracker

Beneful foods in the database

Protein is converted to a dry-matter basis so these rows compare to any other format on the site. The bar under each calorie figure spans the full 122-food range, with the tick at the median, so a bar here means what the same bar means anywhere else.

Dry-matter values computed from each label's guaranteed analysis. Hatched cells are values Beneful does not publish. Scroll horizontally to see all 4 columns.
Food Form Protein DM kcal / kg
Healthy Puppy With Farm-Raised Chicken Dry kibble 31.8% 3688
Healthy Weight With Farm-Raised Chicken Dry kibble 28.4% 3230
Originals With Farm-Raised Beef Dry kibble 26.1% 3631
Originals With Farm-Raised Chicken Dry kibble 26.1% 3565
With Beef, Carrots, Peas & Barley Wet / canned 50% 936

purina.com is the manufacturer's own site and the source everything above was captured from on . Manufacturers reformulate without announcing it, so the bag in your hand outranks this page.

Comparisons featuring Beneful

No head-to-head comparison featuring Beneful yet — which is a gap in our coverage, not a verdict on the brand. The 6 we have published are here, each with the date it was checked.

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Same format, then the nearest label transparency and the nearest number of foods. It is a routing rule, not a recommendation.

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Pedigree

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Source purina.com ↗ Captured 2026-07-25 Methodology