The Honest Kitchen Dog Food Recall & Safety Review
Manufacturer: The Honest Kitchen, Inc. · Also known as: Honest Kitchen Wholemade, THK
Safety Status
The Honest Kitchen has one voluntary recall on record: in February 2013, it recalled five lots of its Verve, Zeal, and Thrive product lines after a supplier's batch of human-grade parsley was found to potentially carry Salmonella. The company's own finished-product testing found no contamination, and no illnesses were ever reported; the action was precautionary. Its core Wholemade line (ingredients cooked to 165°F before dehydration) has no recall history.
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- No FDA-verified recalls on record
- Risk score 7/100 — reviewed 2026-07-22
- No FDA-verified recalls on record
- Risk score 7/100 — reviewed 2026-07-22
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Recall History (1)
- low severityResolved
A raw-ingredient supplier recalled a batch of human-grade parsley for potential Salmonella; the parsley had been used in five production lots of finished product. The company's own quality-control testing did not detect Salmonella in any finished product
Affected products: Verve 4lb/10lb boxes, lot 2332A/3062A, Zeal 4lb/10lb boxes, lot 2272A/2652A, Thrive 1oz sample, lot 2622A
Source: FDA CVMView source
Controversial Ingredients
No controversial ingredients flagged in our review.
Safer Alternatives
Lower-risk brands from our own reviewed dataset, based on the same recall data shown on this page.
- No FDA-verified recalls on record
- Risk score 7/100 — reviewed 2026-07-22
- No FDA-verified recalls on record
- Risk score 7/100 — reviewed 2026-07-22
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