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Purina Beneful Chicken And Wild Rice Canned Dog Food Review

Purina Beneful Canned Dog Food Review

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Ingredient Analysis

When evaluating a dog food, the first five ingredients can tell you a lot about the quality of a product as they make up the bulk of the product. Ideally, you're looking for quality protein sources with a minimum of cheap starches, fillers or by-products. Continuing down the ingredient list, look for ingredients that resemble real food with a minimal number of unpronounceable chemicals - the same as you would for human food.

Purina Beneful Chicken And Wild Rice Canned Dog Food includes the following:

Note - a bolded ingredient in the above tables indicates it is one of the first five ingredients listed by the product manufacturer.

Although not the first product listed (which is the most plentiful), Purina Beneful Chicken And Wild Rice Canned Dog Food does contain with its top ingredients chicken which are considered quality protein sources.

However, this product also lists meat by-products within its top ingredients. By-products are typically considered inferior, lesser quality ingredients.

Additionally, Purina Beneful Chicken And Wild Rice Canned Dog Food also contains as top ingredients wheat gluten. These types of ingredients are typically used as bulk-adding fillers and are not required in your dog's diet.

Allergen alert: This product contains corn starch-modified, wheat gluten, soy protein concentrate and meat by-products which may be problematic for dogs who suffer from corn, wheat gluten, soy or meat by-products food allergies.

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Nutritional Analysis*

Compared to the other 1160 dog foods in our database, Purina Beneful Chicken And Wild Rice Canned Dog Food has:

• significantly more protein than average
• an average amount of carbohydrates
• significantly less fat than average
• more fiber than average

In general, dogs have been shown to do better with a higher protein, medium fat, lower carb diet with sufficient moisture. However, specialty diets as recommended by your veterinarian may prioritize a different nutritional breakdown.

Calorie Breakdown

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All the product information on this page is based on data collected from the manufacturer's product website as retrieved on May 22, 2017.

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Ingredients

Ingredients as published by the dog food manufacturer:

Water sufficient for processing, chicken, wheat gluten, liver, meat by-products, tomatoes, carrots, wild rice, corn starch-modified, mono and dicalcium phosphate, artificial and natural flavors, added color, soy protein concentrate, salt, potassium chloride, calcium carbonate, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, choline chloride, ferrous sulfate, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, calcium pantothenate, manganese sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, Vitamin B-12 supplement, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin A supplement, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, biotin, potassium iodide, sodium selenite

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*Note that some nutritional percentages reported are only estimated values, and are indicated as such as (est). Each dog food manufacturer is required by law to publish a Guaranteed Analysis, which defines each product's maximum values of fiber, moisture and ash in addition to the minimum values of protein and fat contained within. Exact nutritional percentages are not available and hence all calculated values (including carbohydrate percentages and calorie amounts) are determined using these minimum and maximum published values and therefore may differ from actual values.

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