AVA Veterinary Approved French Bulldog Dry Adult Dog Food

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AVA Veterinary Approved French Bulldog Dry Adult Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil
31/ 100
WeakTop 49% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Meat not named by animal

First ingredients: Fish (41.5%) (Fish Meal (19.9%), White Fish (19%), Salmon Stock (2.6%)), Sweet Potato (19.0%), Dried Potato (17%), Salmon Oil (6%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
38.9%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~44%
kcal/100 g
335

Ingredients

Listed first: Fish. 38.9% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 38.9%
  • Plants 45.5%
  • Other 6.2%
  • No amount given 6.8%

Fish (41.5%) (Fish Meal (19.9%), White Fish (19%), Salmon Stock (2.6%)), Sweet Potato (19.0%), Dried Potato (17%), Salmon Oil (6%), Beet Pulp (5.2%), Tapioca (4.3%), Psyllium, Brewers' Yeast, Sunflower Oil, Dried Whole Egg, Minerals, Chicory Root Extract (a a source of Prebiotic Fructooligosaccharides (0.2%), Yeasts (as a source of Beta-glucans and Prebiotic Mannanoligosaccharide) (0.14%), Glucosamine (0.03%), Yucca Extract (0.025%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.02%), Cranberry Extract (0.018%), Green Tea Extract (0.009%), Pomegranate Extract (0.009%)

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Nutritional Additives: None Stated; Vitamins: Vitamin A 56,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,000IU, Vitamin E 750mg, L-carnitine 300mg; Trace Elements: Zinc (as Zinc Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 100mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Chelate of Amino Acids Hydrate) 10mg, Manganese (as Manganese Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 25mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 1.59mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 60mg, Selenium (as Organic form of Selenium produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-3060 (Selenised Yeast Inactivated)) 0.2mg Rosemary Extract, Technological Additives:Antioxidants

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 (41.5%) (Fish Meal (19.9%), White Fish (19%), Salmon S…Meat, animal not named41.5%
Sweet Potato (19.0%)Vegetable, fruit or plant19%
Dried Potato (17%)Vegetable, fruit or plant17%
Salmon Oil (6%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient6%
Beet Pulp (5.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5.2%
Tapioca (4.3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4.3%
PsylliumVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Brewers' YeastOtherNot given
Sunflower OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Dried Whole EggOtherNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
Chicory Root Extract (a a source of Prebiotic Fructooligosa…Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.2%

2.6% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 44%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein24%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat13%14%
Carbohydrate~40%~44%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre4%4.4%
Ash9%10%
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.

Energy335 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 31

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (5.2 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    14.7 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label13.6 / 35 points

      38.9% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.2 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 44.4% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 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.

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 Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 44% to 28% 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.

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 27 flagged nothing.

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

Antioxidants, beet pulp, chondroitin, cranberries, egg, fish, glucosamine, green tea extract, l-carnitine, minerals, pomegranate extract, potato, psyllium, salmon oil, sunflower oil, sweet potato, tapioca, tocopherols (vitamin E), yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, 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
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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home12kg · £49.99 up 11% since 10 Aug12kg£49.99£4.17/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12kg£49.99£4.17/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£44.99£3.75/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£44.99£3.75/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 20 to 29 points higher and cost up to 24% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
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Carbs
about 8% this food about 44%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+29 pointsCompare

Meat
73% this food 38.9%
Carbs
about 24% this food about 44%
To feed
18% less per 1,000 kcal

+26 pointsCompare

Meat
74% this food 38.9%
Carbs
about 27% this food about 44%
To feed
2% more per 1,000 kcal

+26 pointsCompare

Meat
60% this food 38.9%
Carbs
about 30% this food about 44%
To feed
24% more per 1,000 kcal

+20 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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