Purina Beggin Flavor Stix With Peanut Butter Flavor

Purina Beggin Flavor Stix With Peanut Butter Flavor: 4/5 ingredient safety

Purina Beggin Flavor Stix With Peanut Butter Flavor by Purina Beggin Stix has 3 tracked ingredients, with an overall safety score of 4 out of 5, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

  • Safety score in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products
  • NOVA processing classification: group 4

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How This Score Is Built

Purina Beggin Flavor Stix With Peanut Butter Flavor draws on FDA status, EU regulatory status, US state actions, and published research, combined into a single editorially-derived 1-5 scale (never an official government rating). 3 of its 3 tracked ingredients are scored so far; data as of 2026-09-07.

Open Food Facts, FDA, and EU regulatory records feed this score. The FDA site → has the primary record; our methodology page explains the scoring.

Where Purina Beggin Flavor Stix With Peanut Butter Flavor sits nationally

Average ingredient safety score vs. 58,710 other scored products in PlainIngredients

4 Top 80% higher than 20% of 58,710 scored products

Average ingredient safety score (1 = highest risk, 5 = safest), bucketed by value

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Source PlainIngredients ingredient safety index · 2026-09-07

4
Low Risk
Average ingredient safety: 4 out of 5
Based on 3 tracked ingredients
3
Tracked Ingredients
0
Concerning
2
Low Risk / Safe
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Nutri-Score

Ingredient Safety Breakdown

Processing Level

4
NOVA Group 4
Ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed products are formulations made mostly or entirely from substances derived from foods and additives. They typically contain ingredients not commonly used in home cooking.

Full Ingredients List

Pork, barley, rice, ground wheat, soybean meal, oat meal, glycerin, sugar, ground yellow corn, corn protein meal, water, wheat flour, soy flour, bacon, soy protein concentrate, wheat gluten, salt, bacon fat (preserved with BHA and citric acid), natural flavor, phosphoric acid, sorbic acid (a preservative), natural peanut flavor, calcium propionate (a preservative), added color, malted barley flour.

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Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth

Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Purina Beggin Flavor Stix With Peanut Butter Flavor: nearest mean mapped additive safety score and nearest mapped ingredient count among indexable products with at least 3 scored additives, excluding same-brand siblings. Scores describe regulatory and research signals on additives, not dietary advice.

Product Details

Barcode
0038100101723
NOVA Group
4 — Ultra-processed foods
Available In
United States
Stores
Smith's

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Frequently asked questions

Where does Purina Beggin Flavor Stix With Peanut Butter Flavor rank on ingredient safety?

Among the 58,710 PlainIngredients products with a scored ingredient list, Purina Beggin Flavor Stix With Peanut Butter Flavor's 4/5 average puts it in the lower 80%, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.

What does a 4/5 ingredient safety score mean?

Each ingredient gets a 1-5 score (1 highest risk, 5 safest) built from FDA and EU regulatory status; Purina Beggin Flavor Stix With Peanut Butter Flavor's 4/5 is the average across every mapped ingredient it lists, landing it in the Low Risk tier.

Every figure on PlainIngredients is rendered directly from FDA, EU, EFSA and U.S. state regulatory records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.