AVA Sensitive Skin & Stomach Puppy Dry Dog Food White Fish

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AVA Sensitive Skin & Stomach Puppy Dry Dog Food White Fish

DryCompletePuppyGrain-freeFish oil
36/ 100
WeakTop 32% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Fish (38.5%) (White Fish Meal 19%, White Fish 17%, Fish Stock 2.5%), Sweet Potato (32%), Beet Pulp (4%), Chicken Fat… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
36%
Protein, dry weight
33%
Carbs, dry weight
~36%
kcal/100 g
387

Ingredients

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

  • Meat 36%
  • Plants 36%
  • Other 0.3%
  • No amount given 25.2%

Fish (38.5%) (White Fish Meal 19%, White Fish 17%, Fish Stock 2.5%), Sweet Potato (32%), Beet Pulp (4%), Chicken Fat, Potato Protein, Brewers' Yeast, Salmon Oil, Minerals, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructooligosaccharide) (0.16%), Yeasts (as a source of Beta-glucans and Prebiotic Mannanoligosaccharide) (0.11%), Yucca Extract (0.02%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Chondroitin (0.015%), Cranberry Extract (0.01%), Green Tea Extract (0.005%), Pomegranate Extract (0.005%)

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamin A 27,000IU, 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 Acids 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%) (White Fish Meal 19%, White Fish 17%, Fish Sto…Named meat38.5%
Sweet Potato (32%)Vegetable, fruit or plant32%
Beet Pulp (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Chicken FatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Potato ProteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Brewers' YeastOtherNot given
Salmon OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructooligos…Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.2%
Yeasts (as a source of Beta-glucans and Prebiotic Mannanoli…Other0.1%
Yucca Extract (0.02%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.02%
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 33% and carbs about 36%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein30%33%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat17%19%
Carbohydrate~32%~36%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.5%3.9%
Ash7.5%8.3%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%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.

Energy387 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 36

The kind of meat scored best (8.8 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    14.8 / 45
    • Meat on the label12.6 / 35

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

    • Protein level2.2 / 10

      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?

    8.1 / 20

    About 35.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.8 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8.8 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 74% 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 32% of dry foods. 53 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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 36% to 19% by dry weight, and protein is about 38%.

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. 22 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 22 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beet pulp, chicory root extract, chondroitin, cranberries, fish, glucosamine, green tea extract, minerals, pomegranate extract, poultry fat, rosemary, salmon oil, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, 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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Brewers' yeast

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: 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 Home2kg · £13.69 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£13.69£6.84/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£13.69£6.84/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£12.32£6.16/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£12.32£6.16/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 23 to 26 points higher and cost up to 18% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
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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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