1 price from Pets at Home
Freeze-dried rawComplementary: fed with other foodAdultGrain-free
Good points
- Freeze-dried, not extruded
- One animal protein: chicken
- No ingredient deductions
First ingredients: Chicken (45%), Potato (30%), Pumpkin (6%), Peas (6%), Carrot (5%)… All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 45%
- Protein, dry weight
- 36%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~33%
- kcal/100 g
- 362
Ingredients
Listed first: Chicken. 45% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 45%
- Plants 52%
- Other 0.4%
- No amount given 2.6%
Chicken (45%), Potato (30%), Pumpkin (6%), Peas (6%), Carrot (5%), Apple (4%), Blackberry (1%), Yeast (as a source of Prebiotic Mannan-oligosaccharides and Beta-glucans) (0.27%), Cranberry (0.07%), Pomegranate (0.04%), Green Tea Extract (0.04%)
Meat named animal protein
Additives
Vitamins: Vitamin A 6000IU, Vitamin D3 300IU, Vitamin E 100mg
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Chicken”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken (45%) | Named meat | 45% |
| Potato (30%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 30% |
| Pumpkin (6%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 6% |
| Peas (6%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 6% |
| Carrot (5%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 5% |
| Apple (4%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 4% |
| Blackberry (1%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 1% |
| Yeast (as a source of Prebiotic Mannan-oligosaccharides and… | Other | 0.3% |
| Cranberry (0.07%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.07% |
| Pomegranate (0.04%) | Other | 0.04% |
| Green Tea Extract (0.04%) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 0.04% |
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Nutrition
Protein 36% and carbs about 33%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 32% | 36% |
| Fat | 17% | 19% |
| Carbohydrate | ~30% | ~33% |
| Fibre | 6% | 6.7% |
| Ash | 5% | 5.6% |
| Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed | 10% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares.
Energy362 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 54
The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). Meat scored lowest (18.4 of 45).
How much meat?
18.4 / 45 points- Meat on the label15.8 / 35 points
45% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level2.6 / 10 points
Protein is 35.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
8.9 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 33.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
15 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Freeze-dried: 15 of 20.
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.
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.
How we rate foods →Ingredient notes
Nothing flagged in 14 ingredients.
14 ingredients with nothing flagged
Apples, blackberries, carrot, chicken, cranberries, green tea extract, peas, pomegranate extract, potato, pumpkin, tocopherols (vitamin E), yeast
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
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)Apples, blackberries, carrot, chicken, cranberries, green tea extract, peas, pomegranate extract, potato, pumpkin, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Apples, blackberries, cranberries, green tea extract, pomegranate extract, pumpkin, yeast, vitamin A (retinyl acetate)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- EFSA 2018 opinion on green tea catechins (PMC7009618)Green tea extract
- EFSA FEEDAP (PMC13063795)Cranberries
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
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
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home50g · £2.39 up 11% since 10 Aug | 50g | £2.39 | £47.80/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 50g | £2.39 | £47.80/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 50g | £2.15 | £43.00/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 50g | £2.15 | £43.00/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 25 to 40 points higher and cost up to 24% more.
- Meat
- 100% this food 45%
- Carbs
- about 0% this food about 33%
- To feed
- 29% less per 1,000 kcal
+40 pointsCompare
- Meat
- 97.5% this food 45%
- Carbs
- about 0% this food about 33%
- To feed
- 11% more per 1,000 kcal
+31 pointsCompare
- Meat
- 97.5% this food 45%
- Carbs
- about 3% this food about 33%
- To feed
- 24% more per 1,000 kcal
+29 pointsCompare
- Meat
- 80% this food 45%
- Carbs
- about 3% this food about 33%
- To feed
- 81% less per 1,000 kcal
+25 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.
Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
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