Diamond CARE: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Diamond CARE is made by Schell & Kampeter, Inc. (Diamond Pet Foods) — it scores green on 1 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (1 red, 2 undisclosed), no FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 2 Diamond CARE foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 2 Diamond CARE foods in our corpus
The scorecard
WSAVA-aligned criteria
The World Small Animal Veterinary Association's nutrition guidelines suggest four questions to ask any pet food maker before you buy. Most "best dog food" sites skip straight to ingredient vibes and star ratings — we publish the actual answers instead, each sourced, or marked honestly undisclosed when we can't confirm it.
1 of 4 criteria confirmed yes · 1 confirmed no · 2 undisclosed. Undisclosed is common, especially for smaller brands — it means we couldn't confirm an answer from a public source, not that the answer is unfavorable.
Refers to disciplines/experts but names no board-certified veterinary nutritionist (ACVN/ECVCN) or PhD; null per rule.
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Diamond Pet Foods owns and operates its own U.S. plants, where Diamond CARE is produced.
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No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 4 labels we’ve verified for this brand, and no company-wide claim was found either. Most pet foods are only "formulated to meet" AAFCO profiles (a paper calculation) rather than fed to real animals in trials — this is common, not necessarily a red flag.
A reproducible PubMed search (author-affiliation field, animal/pet-domain filtered) returns zero indexed papers for this brand name. Not proof no research exists — only that none is PubMed-indexed under this exact name.
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These four checks come from WSAVA's global nutrition guidelines for evaluating a pet food manufacturer — not our own opinion score. Read our full methodology →
The company
Who makes Diamond CARE
Ownership and history, each sourced independently — private-label and co-packed brands often hide the actual manufacturer behind the name on the bag.
Parent company
Schell & Kampeter, Inc. (Diamond Pet Foods)
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Diamond CARE is a Diamond Pet Foods brand (trade name of privately held Schell & Kampeter, Inc.), which owns and manufactures it.
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Founded
Not publicly confirmed
Headquarters
Meta, Missouri, USA
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Meta, Missouri is the historic home/HQ town of Diamond Pet Foods.
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The safety record
What Diamond CARE costs, against everything else we have priced
The median Diamond CARE dry food we have priced works out at $1.73 per 1,000 kcal, against $2.09 for every dry food in the corpus — so it sits about 1.2x below the market. Cost per 1,000 kcal is the only basis that survives different bag sizes and moisture levels; per pound this comparison would mean nothing. On composition the gap is usually smaller than the price gap implies: 35.6% dry-matter protein against a corpus median of 32.2%.
Diamond CARE foods by cost per 1,000 kcal
| Food | Form | Protein (DM) | Cost / 1,000 kcal | Buy |
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| Diamond CARE WEIGHT MANAGEMENT FORMULA FOR ADULT CATS | dry | 35.6% | $1.67 | Check price |
| Diamond CARE URINARY SUPPORT FORMULA FOR ADULT CATS | dry | 33.3% | $1.73 | Check price |
What Diamond CARE actually puts in its food
The ingredients this brand reaches for most across its 2 verified foods, counted once per recipe. Each links to what the ingredient is, what the evidence says, and how common it is industry-wide.
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Named Meat/Poultry Meal (e.g., Chicken Meal, Lamb Meal)
In 2 of 2 Diamond CARE foods (100%).
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Mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E)
In 2 of 2 Diamond CARE foods (100%).
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Flaxseed (ALA omega-3)
In 2 of 2 Diamond CARE foods (100%).
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Taurine (supplemental)
In 2 of 2 Diamond CARE foods (100%).
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Brewers Rice
In 1 of 2 Diamond CARE foods (50%).
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Fish oil (EPA + DHA omega-3)
In 1 of 2 Diamond CARE foods (50%).
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Chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
In 1 of 2 Diamond CARE foods (50%).
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Lentils
In 1 of 2 Diamond CARE foods (50%).
FDA recall history
Joined from the FDA's own Animal & Veterinary recall feed (2019–present) plus curated pre-2019 records — the same live-checked feed as our full recall database, filtered to Diamond CARE.
Join of data/recalls.json (FDA Animal & Veterinary recall feed, 2019-present) + data/recalls_historical.json. This is NOT a complete lifetime recall history; recalls predating 2019 (or absent from the FDA datatable) are not represented unless curated in recalls_historical.json.
The corpus
What we've verified from Diamond CARE's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
2
0 dog · 2 cat
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 2 (0%)
Formulated to meet
0
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
53%
avg. fields disclosed
The foods
Foods from Diamond CARE we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.