ACANA Light & Fit Adult Dry Dog Food with Chicken Turkey & Fish

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ACANA Light & Fit Adult Dry Dog Food with Chicken Turkey & Fish

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil
50/ 100
FairTop 5% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 58.5% meat
  • No ingredient deductions
  • High protein, 40% dry weight

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Fresh chicken (21%), chicken meal (20%), whole red lentils, whole green peas, lentil fibre… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
58.5%
Protein, dry weight
40%
Carbs, dry weight
~31%
kcal/100 g
307

Ingredients

Listed first: Fresh chicken. 58.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 58.5%
  • Other 7%
  • No amount given 35%

Fresh chicken (21%), chicken meal (20%), whole red lentils, whole green peas, lentil fibre, fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (5%), turkey meal (5%), fresh eggs (4%), raw hake (4%), whole chickpeas, whole green lentils, whole yellow peas, pea starch, herring meal (3%), chicken fat (1.5%), fish oil (1%), raw turkey livers (0.5%), salt, dried kelp, fresh whole pumpkin, fresh whole butternut squash, fresh whole carrots, fresh whole apples, fresh whole pears, fresh whole zucchini, dried chicory root, fresh kale, fresh spinach, fresh turnip greens, fresh beet greens, whole cranberries, whole blueberries, whole saskatoon berries, turmeric, milk thistle, burdock root, lavender, marshmallow root, rosehips.

Meat named animal protein

Additives

3a890 Choline chloride (choline): 700 mg, 3b612 (Zinc: 112.5 mg), 3b407 (Copper: 11mg), 3a821 Vitamin B1: 100mg, 3a825i Vitamin B2: 20mg, 3a314 Niacin: 200 mg, 3a841 Calcium-D-pantothenate: 60mg, 3a831 Vitamin B6: 35mg, 3a316 Vitamin B9: 7mg, 3a835 Vitamin B12: 0.2 mg, 3a672a Vitamin A: 7500 IU, 3a671 Vitamin D3: 1000 IU, 3a700 Vitamin E:475 IU, 3a300 Ascorbic Acid: 0.15 mg. Zootechnical additives: 4b1707 Enterococcus faecium DSM 10663/NCIMB 10415: 1 x 109 CFU. Rosemary extract: 80mg. 1b306(i) Tocopherol extracts from vegetable oils: 121mg, 1a330 citric acid: 40mg.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Fresh chicken”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Fresh chicken (21%)Named meat21%
chicken meal (20%)Named meat20%
whole red lentilsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole green peasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
lentil fibreVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (5%)Named meat5%
turkey meal (5%)Named meat5%
fresh eggs (4%)Other4%
raw hake (4%)Named meat4%
whole chickpeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole green lentilsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole yellow peasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
pea starchVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
herring meal (3%)Named meat3%
chicken fat (1.5%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1.5%
fish oil (1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
raw turkey livers (0.5%)Named meat0.5%
saltOtherNot given
dried kelpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
fresh whole pumpkinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 40% and carbs about 31%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein35%40%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11%13%
Carbohydrate~27%~31%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre8%9.1%
Ash7%8%
Moisture12%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.

Energy307 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 50

The kind of meat scored best (12.1 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    23.8 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label20.5 / 35 points

      58.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level3.3 / 10 points

      Protein is 39.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    9.8 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 30.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12.1 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.1 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 76% 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.

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

Against other dry foods

Top 5% of dry foods. 4 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.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 31% to 21% by dry weight, and protein is about 47%.

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 46 ingredients. 2 are not in our ingredient database yet.

46 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, beetroot, blueberries, burdock root, carrot, chicken, chickpeas, chicory root extract, choline chloride, citric acid (E330), courgette, cranberries, egg, fish, fish oil, folic acid (folate), kale, lavender, lentil fibre, lentils, marshmallow root, milk thistle, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pear, peas, poultry fat, probiotic cultures, pumpkin, rosehips, salt (sodium chloride), seaweed, spinach, starch, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey, turmeric, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

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

Sources for these ingredients
2 not in our ingredient database yet

Fresh turnip greens, whole saskatoon berries

Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home11.4kg · £75.29 up 11% since 10 Aug11.4kg£75.29£6.60/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home2kg · £20.49 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£20.49£10.24/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home11.4kg£75.29£6.60/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£20.49£10.24/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home11.4kg£67.76£5.94/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£18.44£9.22/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home11.4kg£67.76£5.94/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£18.44£9.22/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 9 to 13 points higher and cost up to 19% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78.5% this food 58.5%
Carbs
about 22% this food about 31%
To feed
19% more per 1,000 kcal

+13 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 58.5%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 31%
To feed
42% less per 1,000 kcal

+10 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 58.5%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 31%
To feed
6% less per 1,000 kcal

+9 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 58.5%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 31%
To feed
21% less per 1,000 kcal

+9 pointsCompare

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Matches the maker’s own page.

Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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