Purina One Dog Food Review (Canned)

Purina One wet product range is made up of 10 recipes with ratings varying from 3.5 to 4 stars. The average rating of the whole range is 4 stars.

The table below shows each recipe in this range including our rating and the AAFCO nutrient profile: Growth (puppy), Maintenance (adult), All Life Stages, Supplemental or Unspecified.

Recipe and Label Analysis

Purina One Tender Cuts in Gravy Chicken & Brown Rice Entrée was selected to represent the other products in the line for detailed recipe and nutrient analysis.

Ingredients Analysis

The first ingredient in this dog food is poultry broth. Broths are of only modest nutritional value. Yet because they add both flavor and moisture to a dog food, they are a common component in many canned products.

The second ingredient is chicken. Chicken is considered “the clean combination of flesh and skin… derived from the parts or whole carcasses of chicken”.¹

Chicken is naturally rich in the 10 essential amino acids required by a dog to sustain life.

The third ingredient is wheat gluten. Gluten is the rubbery residue remaining once wheat has had most of its starchy carbohydrate washed out of it.

Although wheat gluten contains 80% protein, this ingredient would be expected to have a lower biological value than meat.

And less costly plant-based products like this can notably boost the total protein reported on the label – a factor that must be considered when judging the actual meat content of this dog food.

The next ingredient is turkey. Turkey is considered “the clean combination of flesh and skin… derived from the parts or whole carcasses of turkey”.²

Turkey is naturally rich in the 10 essential amino acids required by a dog to sustain life.

The fifth ingredient is pork lung. Pork lung is a protein-rich organ meat that’s also low in fat.

The sixth ingredient is liver. Normally, liver can be considered a quality component. However, in this case, the source of the liver is not identified. For this reason, it’s impossible to judge the quality of this item.

The seventh item includes carrots, which are rich in beta-carotene, minerals and dietary fiber.

The next ingredient is brown rice, a complex carbohydrate that (once cooked) can be fairly easy to digest. However, aside from its natural energy content, rice is of only modest nutritional value to a dog.

The ninth ingredient includes soy flour, a high-protein by-product of soybean processing.

Although soy flour contains about 51% protein, this ingredient would be expected to have a lower biological value than meat.

And less costly plant-based products like this can notably boost the total protein reported on the label – a factor that can’t be ignored when judging the actual meat content of this dog food.

From here, the list goes on to include a number of other items.

But to be realistic, ingredients located this far down the list (other than nutritional supplements) are not likely to affect the overall rating of this Purina product.

With two notable exceptions…

First, the minerals listed here do not appear to be chelated. And that can make them more difficult to absorb. Chelated minerals are usually associated with higher quality dog foods.

Next, this recipe contains sodium selenite, a controversial form of the mineral selenium. Sodium selenite appears to be nutritionally inferior to the more natural source of selenium found in selenium yeast.

Nutrient Analysis

Based on its ingredients alone, Purina One Tender Cuts in Gravy Chicken and Brown Rice Entrée looks like an above-average wet product.

The dashboard displays a dry matter protein reading of 47.9%, a fat level of 16.7% and estimated carbohydrates of about 22.9%.

As a group, the brand features an average protein content of 43.4% and a mean fat level of 22.3%. Together, these figures suggest a carbohydrate content of 22.2% for the overall product line.

And a fat-to-protein ratio of about 55%.

Which means this Purina product line contains…

Above-average protein. Near-average fat. And below-average carbohydrates when compared to a typical wet dog food.

When you consider the protein-boosting effect of the wheat gluten and soy flour contained in some recipes, this looks like the profile of a canned dog food containing at least a moderate amount of meat.

Purina Dog Food Recall History

The following automated list (if present) includes all dog food recalls related to Purina through June 2025.

You can view a complete list of all dog food recalls since 2009 here.

Our Rating of Purina One Dog Food

Purina One is a grain-inclusive canned dog food using at least a moderate amount of named meats as its dominant source of animal protein, thus earning the brand 4.5 stars.

However, some of the recipes in this product line have an unusually high fat-to-protein ratio, which may not be suitable for some animals.

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