Beneful Original Dog Food


The Good

The Bad


Use of Corn

Use of By-Product Meal

Use of Wheat

Lower Quality Ingredients

Beneful Original Dog Food Full Review


Beneful Original Dog Food

Beneful Original Dog Food is part of the Beneful Dog Food product line. Beneful Original Dog Food is made and manufactured by Nestle Purina PetCare Company.

Beneful Original Dog Food Review

When analyzing dog food brands the first five ingredients are going to be the most important. The first five ingredients are going to make up the majority of the recipe. We have listed the ingredients, first five ingredients analysis and the guaranteed analysis of Beneful Original Dog Food.

    Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), rice flour, beef, soy flour, sugar, propylene glycol, meat and bone meal, tricalcium phosphate, phosphoric acid, salt, water, animal digest, sorbic acid (a preservative), potassium chloride, dried carrots, dried peas, calcium propionate (a preservative), L-Lysine monohydrochloride, choline chloride, added color (Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 2), DL-Methionine, Vitamin E supplement, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium carbonate, copper sulfate, Vitamin B-12 supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, garlic oil, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin D-3 supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), calcium iodate, folic acid, biotin, sodium selenite.
    1. Ground yellow corn
    2. Chicken by-product meal
    3. Corn gluten meal
    4. Whole wheat flour
    5. Animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols
    Ground Yellow Corn:If corn is going to be used as an ingredient in dog food we would prefer not to see it so heavily used. The current AAFCO definition for Ground Yellow Corn is:"same as ground corn, except that the corn used is yellow in color." The current AAFCO definition for Ground Corn is:"the entire ear of corn ground, without husks, with no greater portion of cob than occurs in the ear corn in its natural state." We would prefer that Corn not be used in the first five ingredients and have at least a couple sources of meat protein listed before it.

    Chicken By-Product Meal:It is hard to determine the quality of this ingredient. Chicken By-Product Meal is a cheaper, lower quality ingredient mostly found in low end dog food brands. Chicken By-Products contain any part of the chicken besides the meat content, which is the most important. The current AAFCO definition of Chicken By-Products is:"Consists of the dry, ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, and intestines -- exclusive of feathers except in such amounts as might occur unavoidably in good processing practices. "

    Corn Gluten: This ingredient is mainly used to “hold” the food together. Corn Gluten is a cheap, low quality ingredient. Basically anything left over during the human processing falls into this ingredient. The current aafco definition of Corn Gluten is:” The dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm.”

    Whole Wheat Flour : Wheat is believed to me the number one dog food ingredient that causes allergies within dogs. Wheat flour is a grain fragment.

    Animal Fat: Animal fat is a lower quality ingredient. It is an unnamed fat source, thus making it hard to determine its quality. The official AAFCO definition of Animal Fat is:” is obtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative".”

    Crude Protein (Min)25.0%

    Calcium (Ca) (Min)1.1%

    Crude Fat (Min)10.0%

    Iron (Fe) (Min)175 mg/kg

    Crude Fiber (Max)4.0%

    Selenium (Se) (Min)0.2 mg/kg

    Moisture (Max)14.0%

    Vitamin A (Min)10,000 IU/kg

    Linoleic Acid (Min)1.5%

    Vitamin E (Min)100 IU/kg

    Beneful Original Dog Food Consumer Ratings

    Don't want to take our word on it? Have you (or your dog) tried Beneful Original Dog Food. If so please give us your thoughts on Beneful Original Dog Food. Below we have a couple of categories we believe are important to consumers. Please take the time and rate Beneful Original Dog Food.

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    Rating: 5.8/10 (1 vote cast)
    Beneful Original Dog Food, 5.8 out of 10 based on 1 rating

    Rating (out of 10)

    Overall Ingredients


    This value take a look at the overall ingredients of the recipe.
    		 2

    First Five Ingredeints


    This value evaluates the first five ingredients only.
    		 2

    Protein Content


    This value evaluates the amount of protein.
    		 3

    Grain Content


    This value evaluates the amount of grains. 10 = No Grains.
    		 2

    Total

    		 2.25



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