Beneful is a brand of dog food marketed and manufactured by the Nestle Purina PetCare Company subsidiary of Nestlé. Dog food is Plant or Animal material intended for consumption by Dogs or other canines Special types of dog food given as a reward and not as Nestlé is a multinational packaged food company founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland The brand is offered as dry kibble as well as "prepared meals"—soft food that has the appearance of stew. A stew is a combination of Solid Food Ingredients that have been Cooked in Water or other water-based liquid typically by Simmering
Ingredients
Beneful is marketed as a premium dog food according to their website and Beneful states their food contains "the perfect balance of real wholesome ingredients, quality nutrition and great taste. "[1]
Beneful uses ground yellow corn as a main ingredient in their formulas while other premium dog foods use chicken meat. Maize (ˈmeɪz ( Zea mays L. ssp mays) known as corn in some countries is a cereal grain domesticated in Mesoamerica The chicken ( Gallus gallus, sometimes G gallus domesticus) is a domesticated Fowl which is traditionally believed to have descended from While corn is not harmful, it is inexpensive. Beneful also uses poorer quality ingredients of corn gluten meal, animal fat, animal digest, soybean meal, brewers rice, beef tallow, chicken by-product meal, sugar, and sorbitol which are not found in the premium competitors foods such as Natural Balance, Artemis, By Nature and others. Corn gluten meal (often simply called CGM) is a Byproduct of Corn (maize processing that has historically been used as an animal feed Animal fat s are rendered tissue fats that can be obtained from a variety of Animals Human nutrition Animal fats are often claimed to be Animal Digest is a common Ingredient used in Pet foods It is material which results from Chemical and/or Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Soybean meal is an ingredient found in some Dog food and Cattle feeding. Brewers rice is the small milled fragments of Rice Kernels that have been separated from the larger kernels of milled rice Tallow is a rendered form of Beef or Mutton Fat, processed from Suet. Poultry by-product meal is a high-protein Commodity used as a major component in some Pet foods It is made from grinding clean rendered parts of Sugar is a class of edible Crystalline substances mainly Sucrose, Lactose, and Fructose. Sorbitol, also known as glucitol, is a Sugar alcohol that the body metabolises slowly Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Pet Foods is an American commercial Pet food manufacturer located in Pacoima, California and established in Artemis Pet Food Company Inc is a manufacturer and supplier of Holistic Pet foods By Nature is a small manufacturer of Holistic Dog food and Cat food located in Londonderry New Hampshire, USA. [2]
Beneful is also one of the few companies that use the artificial coloring agents of Yellow 5, Red 40, Yellow 6, and Blue 2. Allura Red AC is a red Azo dye that goes by several names including Allura Red Food Red 17 C Possible health effects Sunset Yellow is a sulfonated version of Sudan I, a possible carcinogen which Indigo dye is Dye with a distinctive blue color (see Indigo) The chemical compound that constitutes the indigo dye is called indigotin