Beneful Healthy Weight With Farm-Raised Chicken
Confidence A
The Universal score is pet-agnostic. Fit reads the same label against one pet.
Top findings
- +151st ingredient is named chicken — Chicken WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food
- -15Synthetic vitamin K3 — questioned safety margin vs natural K sources — menadione NRC Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats (2006)
- +10Calorie content published on the label AAFCO Dog & Cat Food Nutrient Profiles (2016)
Why this score
Every point traces to a published rule with its source — nothing hand-adjusted, nothing sponsored.
Nutritional adequacystarted at 100, landed at 100
No adjustments — clean slate on this pillar
Ingredient qualitystarted at 60, landed at 75
- +151st ingredient is named chicken — Chicken WSAVA Global Nutrition Committee — Selecting a pet food
Additives & processingstarted at 100, landed at 85
- -15Synthetic vitamin K3 — questioned safety margin vs natural K sources — menadione NRC Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats (2006)
Transparencystarted at 50, landed at 60
- +10Calorie content published on the label AAFCO Dog & Cat Food Nutrient Profiles (2016)
- ℹ By-products can be nutritious — the transparency issue is unnamed sourcing
Weighted total: 84
Scored alternatives
Ranked purely by score — same species, same form. Nothing here is sponsored.
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Closest-scored foods of the same species and form.
Ingredients, as printed
Ranked exactly as the label lists them — heaviest first.
- 1Chicken
- 2whole grain corn
- 3chicken by-product meal
- 4barley
- 5whole grain wheat
- 6soybean meal
- 7soybean hulls
- 8rice
- 9corn gluten meal
- 10egg and chicken flavor
- 11oat meal
- 12beef fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols
- 13natural flavor
- 14calcium carbonate
- 15salt
- 16mono and dicalcium phosphate
- 17glycerin
- 18potassium chloride
- 19dried apples
- 20dried carrots
- 21dried green beans
- 22annatto color
- 23vegetable juice (color)
- 24choline chloride
- 25VITAMINS [Vitamin E supplement, niacin (Vitamin B-3), Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Vitamin B-12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Vitamin D-3 supplement, riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K), folic acid (Vitamin B-9), biotin (Vitamin B-7)]
- 26MINERALS [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite]
- 27carmine
- 28L-Lysine monohydrochloride
Guaranteed analysis
| Nutrient | As fed | Dry matter |
|---|---|---|
| Crude protein | 25% | 28.4% |
| Crude fat | 8% | 9.1% |
| Crude fiber | 7.5% | 8.5% |
| Moisture | 12% | — |
Nutritional adequacy
Formulated to meet AAFCO nutrient profiles for adult maintenance.
3230 kcal/kg metabolizable energy, as published.
Barcode 0017800134651
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