Applaws Taste Toppers Natural Adult Wet Dog Food Chicken Breast with Duck in Gravy

Name: Applaws Taste Toppers Natural Adult Wet Dog Food Chicken Breast with Duck in Gravy
Brand: Applaws

WetComplementary: fed with other foodAdultGrain-free

GoodWhy it scores 61

Fed with other food, not on its own.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 27 Sep 2026

50% meat
Low starch, about 13% carbs
No ingredient deductions

Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Chicken Breast 45%, Duck 5%, Vegetable Gelling Agent, Potato Starch All ingredients

Label checked

Meat: 50%
Protein, dry weight: 73%
Carbs, dry weight: ~13%
kcal/100 g: 61

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken Breast. 50% of the recipe is declared meat.

Chicken Breast 45%, Duck 5%, Vegetable Gelling Agent, Potato Starch

Meat named animal protein

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken Breast 45%”. 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
Chicken Breast 45%	Named meat	45%
Duck 5%	Named meat	5%
Vegetable Gelling Agent	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
Potato Starch	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 73% and carbs about 13%, with the water taken out.

As soldwater is 85% of it

Water taken outhow foods are compared

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	11%	73%
Fat	1%	6.7%
Carbohydrate	~1.9%	~13%
Fibre	0.1%	0.7%
Ash	1%	6.7%
Moisture	85%	taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares.

Energy61 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 61

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (7 of 20).

How much meat?
26.4 / 45 points
- Meat on the label17.5 / 35 points
  50% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level8.9 / 10 points
  Protein is 73.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
15.8 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 12.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
7 / 20 points
How it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.
What kind of meat?
12 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed12 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% 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.

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

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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