

1 price from Pets at Home
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
First ingredients: Chicken (46%) (Chicken Meal 26%, Fresh Chicken 12.5%, Chicken Fat 5%, Chicken Gravy (2.5%), Rice (23%), Maize (19%), Beet Pulp… All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 38.5%
- Protein, dry weight
- 29%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~44%
- kcal/100 g
- 364
Ingredients
Listed first: Chicken. 38.5% of the recipe is declared meat.
Chicken (46%) (Chicken Meal 26%, Fresh Chicken 12.5%, Chicken Fat 5%, Chicken Gravy (2.5%), Rice (23%), Maize (19%), Beet Pulp (4%), Brewers Yeast, Salmon Oil, Whole Dried Egg, Minerals, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Pre-biotic Fructooligosaccharide) (0.16%), Yeasts (as a source Beta-glucans, Pre-biotic Mannanoligosaccharides) (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 proteinGrain cereals
Additives
Vitamins: Vitamin A 24,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,200IU, Vitamin E 400mg; 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, Selenium (as Organic form of Selenium produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-3060 (Selenised Yeast Inactivated)) 0.16mg Rosemary Antioxidants
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Chicken”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken (46%) (Chicken Meal 26%, Fresh Chicken 12.5%, Chick… | Named meat | 46% |
7.5% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.
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Nutrition
Protein 29% and carbs about 44%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 27% | 29% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 15% | 16% |
| Carbohydrate | ~41% | ~44% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.4% | 2.6% |
| Ash | 7% | 7.6% |
| Moisture | 8% | 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.
Why it scores 34
The kind of meat scored best (7.9 of 15). Starch scored lowest (5.3 of 20).
How much meat?
15.1 / 45 points- Meat on the label13.5 / 35 points
38.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.6 / 10 points
Protein is 29.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.3 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 44.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
6 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.
What kind of meat?
7.9 / 15 points- How the meat is listed7.9 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 66% 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.
Against other dry foods
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 44% to 28% by dry weight, and protein is about 41%.
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. 24 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 24 nothing flagged
- 1 not in our ingredient database yet
- Yucca extractNoted, no points takenFeed material (flavouring)
Why it’s noted and sources
Added to reduce stool odour. The ASPCA lists the yucca plant as toxic to dogs, and in a dog study the extract raised a liver enzyme at 750 mg/kg of food, though not at 500. Labels rarely give the amount. We note it, but take no points off.
24 ingredients with nothing flagged
Beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicken, chicory root extract, chondroitin, cranberries, egg, glucosamine, green tea extract, maize (corn), minerals, pomegranate extract, poultry fat, rice, salmon oil, 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
We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: selenium
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)Beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicken, chicory root extract, cranberries, egg, green tea extract, maize (corn), minerals, pomegranate extract, poultry fat, rice, salmon oil, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Chicory root extract, chondroitin, cranberries, glucosamine, green tea extract, pomegranate extract, poultry fat, yeast, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc, selenium
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- EFSA 2018 opinion on green tea catechins (PMC7009618)Green tea extract
- EFSA FEEDAP (PMC13063795)Cranberries
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Pre-biotic mannanoligosaccharides
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
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home2kg · £10.89 up 11% since 10 Aug | 2kg | £10.89 | £5.45/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 | 2kg | £10.89 | £5.45/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 2kg | £9.80 | £4.90/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 2kg | £9.80 | £4.90/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 23 to 26 points higher and cost up to 21% more.

- Meat
- 78% this food 38.5%
- Carbs
- about 8% this food about 44%
- To feed
- 17% less per 1,000 kcal
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- Meat
- 76% this food 38.5%
- Carbs
- about 26% this food about 44%
- To feed
- 14% more per 1,000 kcal
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- Meat
- 80% this food 38.5%
- Carbs
- about 29% this food about 44%
- To feed
- 21% more per 1,000 kcal
+24 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 74% this food 38.5%
- Carbs
- about 27% this food about 44%
- To feed
- 15% less per 1,000 kcal
+23 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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