ACANA Beef & Pumpkin

Name: ACANA Beef & Pumpkin
Brand: ACANA

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil

FairTop 6% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

55% meat
One main animal protein: beef
No ingredient deductions

Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Raw beef (21%), beef meal (19%), raw beef liver (14%), sweet potato, whole chickpeas… All ingredients

Label checked

Meat: 55%
Protein, dry weight: 35%
Carbs, dry weight: ~30%
kcal/100 g: 344

Ingredients

Listed first: Raw beef. 55% of the recipe is declared meat.

Meat 55%
Plants 4%
Other 11%
No amount given 31%

Raw beef (21%), beef meal (19%), raw beef liver (14%), sweet potato, whole chickpeas, beef fat (7%), whole lentils, fresh whole pumpkin (4%), fish oil (3%), lentil fibre, raw beef kidney (0.5%), raw beef tripe (0.5%), salt, dried kelp, fresh whole butternut squash, yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), whole cranberries, whole blueberries, dried chicory root, turmeric, althea root, rosehips and juniper berries

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Meat named animal protein

Additives

per kg: Choline chloride: 1,250mg choline Taurine: 1,485mg Zinc proteinate: 150mg Copper proteinate: 5mg Vitamin B1: 100mg Vitamin B2: 20mg Vitamin B3: 200mg Vitamin B5: 60mg Vitamin B6: 35mg Vitamin B9: 7mg Vitamin B12: 0.2mg Vitamin A: 11,250 IU Vitamin D3: 1,500 IU Vitamin E: 525 IU. Technological additives per kg: Tocopherol extracts from vegetable oils: 121mg Citric acid: 40mg. Sensory additives per kg: Rosemary extract: 82.5mg

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Raw beef”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the label	We read it as	Share on the label
Raw beef (21%)	Named meat	21%
beef meal (19%)	Named meat	19%
raw beef liver (14%)	Named meat	14%
sweet potato	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
whole chickpeas	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
beef fat (7%)	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	7%
whole lentils	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
fresh whole pumpkin (4%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	4%
fish oil (3%)	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	3%
lentil fibre	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
raw beef kidney (0.5%)	Named meat	0.5%
raw beef tripe (0.5%)	Named meat	0.5%
salt	Other	Not given
dried kelp	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
fresh whole butternut squash	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)	Other	Not given
whole cranberries	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
whole blueberries	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
dried chicory root	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
turmeric	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 35% and carbs about 30%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 12%, left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	31%	35%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	17%	19%
Carbohydrate	~26%	~30%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	4%	4.5%
Ash	10%	11%
Moisture	12%	taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy344 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 49

The kind of meat scored best (12.9 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

How much meat?
21.8 / 45 points
- Meat on the label19.3 / 35 points
  55% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level2.5 / 10 points
  Protein is 35.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
10.2 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 29.5% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
5 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.
What kind of meat?
12.9 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed9.9 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 83% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.
- Organ meat3 / 3 points
  Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.

No ingredient deductions.

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Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Top 6% of dry foods. 12 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

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Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 30% to 19% by dry weight, and protein is about 45%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 24 ingredients.

24 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, beef, blueberries, chickpeas, chicory root extract, choline chloride, cranberries, fish oil, kidney (animal organ), lentil fibre, lentils, liver (animal organ), marshmallow root, pumpkin, rosehips, rosemary, salt (sodium chloride), seaweed, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), tripe, turmeric, yeast

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients