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Taste of the Wild: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Taste of the Wild is made by Diamond Pet Foods (Schell & Kampeter, Inc.), founded 2007 — 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 25 Taste of the Wild foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 25 Taste of the Wild 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.
Same Diamond Pet Foods formulation program; no named ACVN/ECVCN Diplomate or PhD nutritionist disclosed. Null.
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Made in Diamond-owned plants (two in California, plus Missouri, Arkansas, South Carolina, Kansas).
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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 Taste of the Wild
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
Diamond Pet Foods (Schell & Kampeter, Inc.)
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Diamond Pet Foods both owns and manufactures the brand; Diamond is the trade name of privately held Schell & Kampeter, Inc.
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Founded
2007
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Headquarters
Meta, Missouri, USA
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HQ of manufacturer/owner Diamond Pet Foods.
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The safety record
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 Taste of the Wild.
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 Taste of the Wild's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
25
25 dog
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 25 (0%)
Formulated to meet
25
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
60%
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The foods
Foods from Taste of the Wild we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.