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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 10 foods we hold, 10 publish a nutrient analysis, 9 a calorie statement, 10 an ingredient list and 10 a nutritional-completeness statement. 10 of those are AAFCO statements. 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 2026-07-27 Methodology

All 55 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 203-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 published 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
Roasted Chicken Recipe With Brown Rice, Carrots & Spinach Wet / canned 45.5% 967
With Beef, Carrots, Peas & Barley Wet / canned 50% 936
With Farm-Raised Beef Dry kibble 29.5% 3666
With Farm-Raised Chicken Dry kibble 29.5% 3655
With Natural Salmon Dry kibble 26.1% 3658
With Real Beef, Tomatoes, Carrots & Wild Rice Wet / canned 45.8% —

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