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Ambassador Dog Food Hypoallergenic Lamb and Rice Dog Food
DryCompleteAll agesContains grainFish oil
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Some meat not named by animal
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: Lamb Meal (26%), Rice (26%), Barley, Maize, Chicken fat… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 26%
- Protein, dry weight
- 27%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~43%
- kcal/100 g
- 348
Ingredients
Listed first: Lamb Meal. 26% of the recipe is declared meat.
Lamb Meal (26%), Rice (26%), Barley, Maize, Chicken fat, Beet Pulp, Poultry Meal, Chicken Digest, Fish Oil, Minerals, Whole Linseed, Pre-biotic FOS, Brewers yeast, Yucca Extract & Rosemary Extract
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
From the maker’s website, checked 4 Oct 2026.
Additives
VITAMINS COMPOUNDS OF TRACE ELEMENTS: Vitamin A 19,000 iu/kg Vitamin D3 1,900 iu/kg Vitamin E 110 mg/kg Ferrous Sulphate Monohydrate 133 mg/kg Copper Sulphate Pentahydrate 28 mg/kg Manganese Sulphate Monohydrate 94 mg/kg Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate 278 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.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Lamb Meal (26%) | Named meat | 26% |
| Rice (26%) | Grain | 26% |
| Barley | Grain | Not given |
| Maize | Grain | Not given |
| Chicken fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Beet Pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Poultry Meal | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| Chicken Digest | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Fish Oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Minerals | Other | Not given |
| Whole Linseed | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Pre-biotic FOS | Other | Not given |
| Brewers yeast | Other | Not given |
| Yucca Extract & Rosemary Extract | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 27% and carbs about 43%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 24% | 27% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 15% | 17% |
| Carbohydrate | ~39% | ~43% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.5% | 2.8% |
| Ash | 9.5% | 11% |
| 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.
Energy348 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 25
The kind of meat scored best (5 of 15). Meat scored lowest (10.2 of 45).
How much meat?
10.2 / 45 points- Meat on the label9.1 / 35 points
26% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.1 / 10 points
Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.6 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 43.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
5 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
5 / 15 points- How the meat is listed5 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as meal and unnamed meal, which earns 42% 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 43% to 27% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.
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
1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 14 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 14 nothing flagged
- 1 not in our ingredient database yet
- Yucca extractNoted, no points takenFeed material (flavouring)
Why it’s noted and sources
Added to reduce stool odour. The ASPCA lists the yucca plant as toxic to dogs, and in a dog study the extract raised a liver enzyme at 750 mg/kg of food, though not at 500. Labels rarely give the amount. We note it, but take no points off.
14 ingredients with nothing flagged
Antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, digest (rendered meat digest), fish oil, lamb, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, poultry, poultry fat, rice, rosemary, yeast
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, digest (rendered meat digest), fish oil, lamb, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, poultry, poultry fat, rice, rosemary, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Antioxidants, barley, digest (rendered meat digest), poultry, poultry fat, yeast
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlRosemary
- FSA register of feed additives (GB)Rosemary
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Pre-biotic fos
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 | £43.20 | £3.60/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Ambassador Dog Food | Pack size not stated | £80.03 | £6.67/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Ambassador Dog Food | 12kg | £43.20 | £3.60/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Ambassador Dog Food | Pack size not stated | £80.03 | £6.67/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 28 to 36 points higher and cost up to 20% more.
- Meat
- 75% this food 26%
- Carbs
- about 18% this food about 43%
- To feed
- 9% more per 1,000 kcal
+36 pointsCompare
Nourish Pet Food 80/20 Grain Free Salmon with Herring, Haddock, Trout & Sweet Potato Dry Dog Food
78% meatDry · All ages
Good£5.03/kg
- Meat
- 78% this food 26%
- Carbs
- about 8% this food about 43%
- To feed
- 20% more per 1,000 kcal
+35 pointsCompare
- Meat
- 73% this food 26%
- Carbs
- about 24% this food about 43%
- To feed
- about the same per 1,000 kcal
+32 pointsCompare
- Meat
- 72% this food 26%
- Carbs
- about 38% this food about 43%
- To feed
- 15% more per 1,000 kcal
+28 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
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).
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