AVA Sensitive Skin & Stomach Dry Dog Food

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AVACompare

AVA Sensitive Skin & Stomach Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil
32/ 100
WeakTop 45% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • One animal protein: fish
  • No ingredient deductions
  • About 48% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Fish (38.5%) (Freshly Prepared White Fish 19%, White Fish Meal 17%, Fish Stock 2.5%), Sweet Potato (31%), Tapioca (12%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
36%
Protein, dry weight
26%
Carbs, dry weight
~48%
kcal/100 g
340

Ingredients

Listed first: Fish. 36% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 36%
  • Plants 51%
  • Other 0.5%
  • No amount given 10%

Fish (38.5%) (Freshly Prepared White Fish 19%, White Fish Meal 17%, Fish Stock 2.5%), Sweet Potato (31%), Tapioca (12%), Beet Pulp (8%), Brewer's Yeast, Rapeseed Oil, Salmon Oil, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of prebiotic fructooligosaccharides) (0.16%), Yeasts (as a source of prebiotic mannanoligosaccharides) (0.11%), Yucca Extract (0.2%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%), Cranberry Extract (0.01%), Green Tea Extract (0.005%), Pomegranate Extract (0.005%).

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamins: Vitamin A 24,000IU, Vitamin D3 337.5IU, Vitamin E 450mg. Trace Elements: Zinc (as Zinc Chelate Of Protein Hydrolysates) 64.2mg, Manganese (as Manganese Chelate Of Protein Hydrolysates) 7.8mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Chelate Of Amino Acid Hydrate) 8mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 1.27mg. Rosemary Extract Antioxidants

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Fish”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Fish (38.5%) (Freshly Prepared White Fish 19%, White Fish M…Named meat38.5%
Sweet Potato (31%)Vegetable, fruit or plant31%
Tapioca (12%)Vegetable, fruit or plant12%
Beet Pulp (8%)Vegetable, fruit or plant8%
Brewer's YeastOtherNot given
Rapeseed OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Salmon OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Chicory Root Extract (as a source of prebiotic fructooligos…Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.2%
Yeasts (as a source of prebiotic mannanoligosaccharides) (0…Other0.1%
Yucca Extract (0.2%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.2%
Glucosamine (0.02%)Other0.02%
Chondroitin (0.015%)Other0.015%
Cranberry Extract (0.01%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.01%
Green Tea Extract (0.005%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.005%
Pomegranate Extract (0.005%).Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.005%

2.5% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 26% and carbs about 48%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein24%26%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12%13%
Carbohydrate~44%~48%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.9%3.2%
Ash9%9.8%
Moisture8%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.

Energy340 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 32

The kind of meat scored best (9.2 of 15). Starch scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    13.6 / 45
    • Meat on the label12.6 / 35

      36% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1 / 10

      Protein is 26.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    4 / 20

    About 47.9% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.2 / 15
    • How the meat is listed9.2 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 76% 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

      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

Top 45% of dry foods. 36 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

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 48% to 31% by dry weight, and protein is about 39%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 21 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 21 nothing flagged
21 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beet pulp, chicory root extract, chondroitin, cranberries, fish, glucosamine, green tea extract, pomegranate extract, rapeseed oil, rosemary, salmon oil, sweet potato, tapioca, tocopherols (vitamin E), yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Pets at Home15kg · £55.99 up 11% since 10 Aug15kg£55.99£3.73/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home15kg£55.99£3.73/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home15kg£50.39£3.36/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home15kg£50.39£3.36/kg

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 17 to 28 points higher and cost up to 16% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
about 27% this food about 48%
To feed
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Carbs
about 33% this food about 48%
To feed
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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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