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Purina Beyond: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Purina Beyond is made by Nestlé Purina PetCare — it scores green on 3 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (0 red, 1 undisclosed), no FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 7 Purina Beyond foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 7 Purina Beyond 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.
3 of 4 criteria confirmed yes · 0 confirmed no · 1 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.
Arleigh Reynolds, DVM, board-certified in veterinary nutrition, employed by Nestlé Purina PetCare (maker of this brand).
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Nestlé Purina owns and operates its own U.S. factories.
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No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 14 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.
157 PubMed-indexed papers carry "Nestlé Purina" in an author affiliation (animal/pet-domain filtered) — a reproducible floor, not a total.
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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 Purina Beyond
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
Nestlé Purina PetCare
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Purina Beyond is listed among the brands owned by Nestlé Purina PetCare.
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Founded
Not publicly confirmed
Headquarters
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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HQ of the parent/manufacturer Nestlé Purina PetCare.
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The safety record
What Purina Beyond costs, against everything else we have priced
The median Purina Beyond wet food we have priced works out at $22.66 per 1,000 kcal, against $18.02 for every wet food in the corpus — so it sits about 1.3x above 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: 45.5% dry-matter protein against a corpus median of 46.7%.
Purina Beyond foods by cost per 1,000 kcal
| Food | Form | Protein (DM) | Cost / 1,000 kcal | Buy |
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| Beyond Grain Free Trout & Catfish Recipe Pâté Natural Cat Food | wet | 45.5% | $11.78 | Check price |
| Beyond Cage-Free Turkey, Sweet Potato & Spinach Recipe In Gravy Natural Cat Food | wet | 50.0% | $22.66 | Check price |
What Purina Beyond actually puts in its food
The ingredients this brand reaches for most across its 7 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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Taurine (supplemental)
In 7 of 7 Purina Beyond foods (100%).
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Named Meat/Poultry Meal (e.g., Chicken Meal, Lamb Meal)
In 4 of 7 Purina Beyond foods (57%).
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Pea protein
In 4 of 7 Purina Beyond foods (57%).
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Peas
In 4 of 7 Purina Beyond foods (57%).
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Mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E)
In 4 of 7 Purina Beyond foods (57%).
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Probiotics (live microbials)
In 4 of 7 Purina Beyond foods (57%).
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Tapioca
In 2 of 7 Purina Beyond foods (29%).
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Sweet potato
In 2 of 7 Purina Beyond foods (29%).
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 Purina Beyond.
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 Purina Beyond's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
7
0 dog · 7 cat
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 7 (0%)
Formulated to meet
7
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
64%
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The foods
Foods from Purina Beyond we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.