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Purina Beneful Originals with Farm-Raised Beef Real Meat Dog Food, 14-lb bag
Purina Beneful

Originals with Farm-Raised Beef Real Meat Dog Food, 14-lb bag

Evidence Fair
dry $5.98

Purina Beneful Originals with Farm-Raised Beef Real Meat Dog Food, 14-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 54/100 (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. beef 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
23%
min
Fat
12%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
12%
max
Ingredients
32 total
  1. 1 beef
  2. 2 whole grain corn
  3. 3 barley
  4. 4 rice
  5. 5 wheat
  6. 6 soybean meal
  7. 7 corn protein meal
  8. 8 chicken by-product meal
  9. 9 beef fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols
  10. 10 egg and chicken flavor
  11. 11 oat meal
  12. 12 natural flavor
  13. 13 calcium carbonate
  14. 14 salt
  15. 15 mono and dicalcium phosphate
  16. 16 glycerin
  17. 17 soybean oil
  18. 18 dried spinach
  19. 19 dried peas
  20. 20 carrots
  21. 21 annatto color
  22. 22 vegetable juice
  23. 23 zinc sulfate
  24. 24 ferrous sulfate
  25. 25 manganese sulfate

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