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Purina Beneful Healthy Weight with Farm-Raised Chicken Dry Dog Food, 36-lb bag
Purina Beneful

Healthy Weight with Farm-Raised Chicken Dry Dog Food, 36-lb bag

Evidence Fair
dry $1.08/lb

Purina Beneful Healthy Weight with Farm-Raised Chicken Dry Dog Food, 36-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 59/100 (C) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with declared fiber.

CQI

Includes egg, named fish, or organ meat for diverse high-bioavailability protein.

STACK

Score capped at 59 due to no AAFCO statement.

CAP why?

No declared omega-3 source. Fish oil, salmon oil, and algae oil all absent.

FQI

No AAFCO statement. Nutritional completeness unverified.

ACF

Controversial ingredients · 1

  • sodium selenite
    Synthetic selenium source. Selenium is essential, but sodium selenite has a narrower safety margin than organic alternatives like selenium yeast. Better-formulated foods use the organic form.

Every flagged ingredient has a published basis (confirmed harm / regulatory action / precautionary). See methodology →

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
25%
min
Fat
8%
min
Fiber
7.5%
max
Moisture
12%
max
Ingredients
32 total
  1. 1 chicken
  2. 2 whole grain corn
  3. 3 chicken by-product meal
  4. 4 barley
  5. 5 wheat
  6. 6 soybean meal
  7. 7 soybean hulls
  8. 8 rice
  9. 9 corn protein meal
  10. 10 egg and chicken flavor
  11. 11 oat meal
  12. 12 beef fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols
  13. 13 natural flavor
  14. 14 calcium carbonate
  15. 15 mono and dicalcium phosphate
  16. 16 glycerin
  17. 17 dried apples
  18. 18 carrots
  19. 19 dried green beans
  20. 20 salt
  21. 21 annatto color
  22. 22 vegetable juice
  23. 23 choline chloride
  24. 24 dl-methionine
  25. 25 potassium chloride

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