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Stella & Chewy's: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Stella & Chewy's is made by L Catterton, founded 2003 — 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 8 Stella & Chewy's foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 8 Stella & Chewy's 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.
No fetched page named an individual with a board-certified veterinary-nutrition credential or PhD in animal nutrition; null per rule.
Company owns and operates its own plant in Oak Creek, WI (SQF-certified).
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No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 16 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 Stella & Chewy's
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
L Catterton
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Privately held; consumer-focused PE firm Catterton (rebranded L Catterton) acquired the company in 2015.
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Founded
2003
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Founded by Marie Moody in 2003 (NYC).
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Headquarters
Oak Creek, Wisconsin, USA
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Oak Creek is in Milwaukee County, WI.
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The safety record
What Stella & Chewy's costs, against everything else we have priced
The median Stella & Chewy's dry food we have priced works out at $3.23 per 1,000 kcal, against $2.09 for every dry food in the corpus — so it sits about 1.5x 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: 44.3% dry-matter protein against a corpus median of 32.2%.
Stella & Chewy's foods by cost per 1,000 kcal
| Food | Form | Protein (DM) | Cost / 1,000 kcal | Buy |
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| Raw Coated Cat Kibble: Cage-Free Chicken Recipe | dry | 43.2% | $2.14 | Check price |
| Raw Coated Cat Kibble: Wild-Caught Salmon Recipe | dry | 44.3% | $3.23 | Check price |
What Stella & Chewy's actually puts in its food
The ingredients this brand reaches for most across its 8 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 8 of 8 Stella & Chewy's foods (100%).
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Mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E)
In 6 of 8 Stella & Chewy's foods (75%).
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Probiotics (live microbials)
In 6 of 8 Stella & Chewy's foods (75%).
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Named Meat/Poultry Meal (e.g., Chicken Meal, Lamb Meal)
In 4 of 8 Stella & Chewy's foods (50%).
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Lentils
In 4 of 8 Stella & Chewy's foods (50%).
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Peas
In 4 of 8 Stella & Chewy's foods (50%).
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Yucca schidigera extract
In 4 of 8 Stella & Chewy's foods (50%).
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Rosemary extract
In 4 of 8 Stella & Chewy's 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 Stella & Chewy's.
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 Stella & Chewy's's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
8
0 dog · 8 cat
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 8 (0%)
Formulated to meet
0
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
52%
avg. fields disclosed
The foods
Foods from Stella & Chewy's we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.