
2 prices from Ambassador Dog Food
Ambassador Maintenance Complete Dog Food - 2 Bags
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not given
- About 61% carbs (dry weight)
- Meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Whole Cereal, Meat Meal, Soya Oil, Vitamins and Minerals All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 20%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~61%
- kcal/100 g
- 305
Ingredients
Listed first: Whole Cereal. The label gives no meat figure.
Whole Cereal, Meat Meal, Soya Oil, Vitamins and Minerals
Meat animal not namedGrain cereals
From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Additives
Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Ferrous Sulphate, Monohydrate, Cupric Sulphate Monohydrate, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Sodium Selenite
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Whole Cereal”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Whole Cereal | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Meat Meal | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| Soya Oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Vitamins and Minerals | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 20% and carbs about 61%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 18% | 20% |
| below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 6% | 6.7% |
| Carbohydrate | ~55% | ~61% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 3.5% | 3.9% |
| Ash | 8% | 8.9% |
| Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed | 10% | 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.
Why it scores 17
How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). Starch scored lowest (0 of 20).
How much meat?
8.8 / 45 points- Meat on the label8.8 / 35 points
Meat is listed without saying which animal, and the label doesn’t say how much, so a quarter of the points.
- Protein level0 / 10 points
Protein is 20% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
0 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 60.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
6 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.
What kind of meat?
3 / 15 points- How the meat is listed3 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as unnamed meal, which earns 25% 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
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 61% to 39% by dry weight, and protein is about 34%.
Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.
Best wet foods →Ingredient notes
Nothing flagged in 12 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
12 ingredients with nothing flagged
Cereals, minerals, processed animal protein, soya oil, tocopherols (vitamin E)
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Cereals, soya oil, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Cereals, minerals, soya oil
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Processed animal protein
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Monohydrate
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
Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Ambassador Dog Food | 12kg | £23.00 | £1.92/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Ambassador Dog Food | Pack size not stated | £44.00 | £3.67/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Ambassador Dog Food | 12kg | £23.00 | £1.92/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Ambassador Dog Food | Pack size not stated | £44.00 | £3.67/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
1 dry food scores 32 points higher at the same price or less.

- Carbs
- about 33% this food about 61%
- To feed
- 30% less per 1,000 kcal
+32 points
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.
From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Ambassador Dog Food (the maker).
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