Purina Dog Chow
Purina Dog Chow by Purina has 9 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
How This Score Is Built
Purina Dog Chow 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). 9 of its 9 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 Dog Chow 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
Ingredient Safety Breakdown
Full Ingredients List
..... 27.0% 14.0% 4.0% 10.0% 1.6% 1.0% 0.9% 12,000 IU/kg 100 IU/kg Whole grain corn, poultry by-product meal, corn protein meal, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols, meat and bone meal, soybean meal, beef, natural flavor, egg and chicken flavor, salt, potassium chloride, fish oil, dried peas, calcium carbonate, choline chloride, MINERALS [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], VITAMINS [Vitamin E supplement, niacin (Vitamin B-3), thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), Vitamin A supplement, riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), folic acid (Vitamin B-9), menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K). biotin (Vitamin B-7), Vitamin D-3 Supplement. carrots. L-Lysine monohydrochloride, Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 2. every ingredient has a purpose MANUFACTURED BY: Nestle Purina PetCare Company St. Louis, MO 63164 USA DogChow.com/INGR
Compare beyond brand
Nationwide peers by additive safety & ingredient depth
Two PlainIngredients-derived comparison paths for Purina Dog Chow: 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.
Similar mean additive safety
Nearest products by average mapped safety score. This record: 4/5.
Similar mapped ingredient depth
Nearest products by count of scored mapped additives. This record: 9.
Product Details
- Brand
- Purina
- Barcode
- 0017800101851
- Available In
- United States
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Frequently asked questions
How does Purina Dog Chow's safety score compare to other products?
Purina Dog Chow scores 4 out of 5 for average ingredient safety, in the bottom 80% of the 58,710 products in PlainIngredients with a scored ingredient list, in line with the 4.12/5 average across all scored products.
What's behind the 4/5 rating on Purina Dog Chow?
The 1-5 scale (5 safest) comes from FDA and EU regulatory status per ingredient. Purina Dog Chow's mapped ingredients average out to 4/5, which is 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.