AVA Freeze Dried Adult Dog Food Fish

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AVA Freeze Dried Adult Dog Food Fish

Freeze-dried rawComplementary: fed with other foodAdultGrain-free
48/ 100
FairWhy it scores 48

Fed with other food, not on its own.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • Freeze-dried, not extruded
  • One animal protein: fish
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Meat not named by animal

First ingredients: Fish (45%), Potato (30%), Pumpkin (6%), Peas (6%), Carrot (5%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
45%
Protein, dry weight
33%
Carbs, dry weight
~31%
kcal/100 g
365

Ingredients

Listed first: Fish. 45% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 45%
  • Plants 52%
  • Other 0.4%
  • No amount given 2.6%

Fish (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 animal not named

Additives

Vitamins: Vitamin A 6000IU, Vitamin D3 300IU, Vitamin E 100mg

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Fish”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Fish (45%)Meat, animal not named45%
Potato (30%)Vegetable, fruit or plant30%
Pumpkin (6%)Vegetable, fruit or plant6%
Peas (6%)Vegetable, fruit or plant6%
Carrot (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
Apple (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Blackberry (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Yeast (as a source of Prebiotic Mannan-oligosaccharides and…Other0.3%
Cranberry (0.07%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.07%
Pomegranate (0.04%)Other0.04%
Green Tea Extract (0.04%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.04%

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Nutrition

Protein 33% and carbs about 31%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein30%33%
Fat19%21%
Carbohydrate~28%~31%
Fibre9%10%
Ash4%4.4%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

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

Energy365 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 48

How it’s made scored best (15 of 20). Meat scored lowest (18 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    18 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label15.8 / 35 points

      45% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.2 / 10 points

      Protein is 33.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    9.6 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 31.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    15 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Freeze-dried: 15 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    6 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed6 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as unnamed fresh, which earns 50% 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.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 14 ingredients.

14 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, blackberries, carrot, cranberries, fish, 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

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home50g · £2.39 up 11% since 10 Aug50g£2.39£47.80/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home50g£2.39£47.80/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home50g£2.15£43.00/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home50g£2.15£43.00/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

2 dry foods score 37 to 46 points higher and cost up to 12% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
100% this food 45%
Carbs
about 0% this food about 31%
To feed
28% less per 1,000 kcal

+46 pointsCompare

Meat
97.5% this food 45%
Carbs
about 0% this food about 31%
To feed
12% more per 1,000 kcal

+37 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.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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