AVA Small Breed Senior Dry Dog Food Chicken

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AVA Small Breed Senior Dry Dog Food Chicken

DryCompleteSeniorContains grainFish oil
31/ 100
WeakTop 49% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • About 48% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Chicken (41%) (Chicken Meal 22%, Fresh Chicken 12.5%, Chicken Fat 4%, Chicken Gravy (2.5%), Brown Rice (20%), Maize (15%), Beet… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
34.5%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~48%
kcal/100 g
353

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 34.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

Chicken (41%) (Chicken Meal 22%, Fresh Chicken 12.5%, Chicken Fat 4%, Chicken Gravy (2.5%), Brown Rice (20%), Maize (15%), Beet Pulp (7.5%), Brewers Yeast, Salmon Oil, Whole Dried Egg, Minerals, Chicory Root Extract( as a source of Pre-biotic Fructooligosaccharide) (0.16%), Yeast (as a source of Beta-glucans and Prebiotic Mannanoligosaccharide) (0.11%) Glucosamine (0.06%), Chondroitin (0.045%), Yucca Extract (0.02%), Cranberry Extract (0.01%), Green Tea Extract (0.005%), Pomegranate Extract (0.005%)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamins: Vitamin A 27,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,350IU, 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, Selenium (as Organic form of Selenium produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-3060 (Selenised Yeast Inactivated)) 0.16mg. Rosemary Extract Antioxidants

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken (41%) (Chicken Meal 22%, Fresh Chicken 12.5%, Chick…Named meat41%

6.5% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 48%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein25%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat13%14%
Carbohydrate~44%~48%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.2%3.5%
Ash6.5%7.1%
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.

Energy353 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 31

The kind of meat scored best (8.2 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3.9 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    13.3 / 45
    • Meat on the label12.1 / 35

      34.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.2 / 10

      Protein is 27.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    3.9 / 20

    About 48.2% 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?

    8.2 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8.2 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 68% 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 49% of dry foods. 48 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 48% to 30% by dry weight, and protein is about 35%.

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
24 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicken, chicory root extract, chondroitin, cranberries, egg, green tea extract, maize (corn), minerals, pomegranate extract, poultry fat, rice, rosemary, 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

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 · £10.89 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£10.89£5.45/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£10.89£5.45/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£9.80£4.90/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£9.80£4.90/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 15 to 29 points higher and cost up to 11% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78% this food 34.5%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 48%
To feed
20% less per 1,000 kcal

+29 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 34.5%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 48%
To feed
11% more per 1,000 kcal

+28 pointsCompare

Meat
72% this food 34.5%
Carbs
about 41% this food about 48%
To feed
19% less per 1,000 kcal

+21 pointsCompare

Meat
43.5% this food 34.5%
Price
11% less per kg

+15 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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