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Ambassador Lamb and Rice Dog Food - 39% Lamb

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
37/ 100
WeakTop 28% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • One animal protein: lamb
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Lamb Meal (39%), Rice (26%), Lamb Tallow, Barley, Potato Starch… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
39%
Protein, dry weight
30%
Carbs, dry weight
Not on label
kcal/100 g
Not on label

Ingredients

Listed first: Lamb Meal. 39% of the recipe is declared meat.

Lamb Meal (39%), Rice (26%), Lamb Tallow, Barley, Potato Starch, Lamb Grvy, Minerals, Seaweed, Prebiotic Mannan – Oligosaccharide, Yucca Extraxt, Glucosamine Chondroitin, Cranberry

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

From the maker’s website, checked 4 Oct 2026.

Additives

VITAMINS COMPOUNDS OF TRACE ELEMENTS: Vitamin A 26,000 iu/kg Vitamin D3 3,050 iu/kg Vitamin E 270 mg/kg Copper Sulphate Pentahydrate 10 mg/kg Manganese Sulphate Monohydrate 25 mg/kg Zinc Chelate of Protein Hydrolysate 50 mg/kg Calcium lodate 1.6 mg/kg Sodium Selenite 0.55 mg/kg. TECHNOLOGICAL ADDITIVES: Antioxidants (natural mixed tocopherols)

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Lamb Meal”. 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
Lamb Meal (39%)Named meat39%
Rice (26%)Grain26%
Lamb TallowFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
BarleyGrainNot given
Potato StarchVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Lamb GrvyNamed meatNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
SeaweedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Prebiotic Mannan – OligosaccharideOtherNot given
Yucca ExtraxtOtherNot given
Glucosamine ChondroitinOtherNot given
CranberryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 30% with the water taken out.

As sold

Protein27%30% with the water taken out (10% water assumed)
Fat15%
Fibre2%
AshNot on label
MoistureNot on label
EnergyNot on label

Why it scores 37

Starch scored best (10 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    15.4 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label13.7 / 35 points

      39% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.7 / 10 points

      Protein is 30% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    10 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: The label doesn’t give enough of its analysis to estimate the carbohydrate: half marks.

  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?

    7.5 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed7.5 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 63% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3 points

      No organ meat 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 28% of dry foods. 37 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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Ingredient notes

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 10 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 10 nothing flagged
  • 2 not in our ingredient database yet
10 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, barley, cranberries, glucosamine, lamb, minerals, rice, seaweed, starch

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)

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

Sources for these ingredients
2 not in our ingredient database yet

Lamb tallow, prebiotic mannan - oligosaccharide

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: Ambassador Dog Food. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Ambassador Dog Food12kg · £46.4412kg£46.44£3.87/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Ambassador Dog FoodPack size not stated · £86.18Pack size not stated£86.18£7.18/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Ambassador Dog Food12kg£46.44£3.87/kg
4 Oct 2026Ambassador Dog FoodPack size not stated£86.18£7.18/kg
28 Sep 2026Ambassador Dog Food12kg£46.44£3.87/kg
28 Sep 2026Ambassador Dog FoodPack size not stated£86.18£7.18/kg

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Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 4 Oct 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 4 Oct 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Ambassador Dog Food (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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