Barking Heads Big Foot Golden Years

2 prices from Zooplus UK

Barking Heads Big Foot Golden Years

DryCompleteSeniorContains grainFree-rangeFish oil
46/ 100
FairTop 10% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • One main animal protein: chicken
  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: 50% chicken (23% freshly prepared free-run chicken, 23% dried chicken, 4% chicken gravy, 2.5% chicken fat), 26% rice, barley… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
43.5%
Protein
Not on label
Carbs, dry weight
Not on label
kcal/100 g
Not on label

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 43.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

50% chicken (23% freshly prepared free-run chicken, 23% dried chicken, 4% chicken gravy, 2.5% chicken fat), 26% rice, barley, potato 8% peas, 6% oats, lucerne, minerals, 1% salmon oil, yeast products (1000mg/kg), chicory root extract (FOS 1000mg/kg), seaweed, glucosamine (500mg/kg), dried carrot (500mg/kg), mixed herbs (peppermint, rosemary, oregano and thyme 500mg/kg), beta glucans (300mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (150mg/kg)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Vitamins: Vitamin A 17 000 IU, vitamin D3 1 000 IU, taurine 1000mg, vitamin E 150mg, L-carnitine 50mg. Trace Elements: Iron (iron (ii) sulphate monohydrate) 60mg, zinc (zinc sulphate monohydrate) 50mg, manganese (manganous sulphate monohydrate) 50mg, zinc (zinc chelate of glycine hydrate) 15mg, copper (copper (ii) sulphate pentahydrate) 5mg, iodine (calcium iodate anhydrous) 1.5mg, selenium (sodium selenite) 0.05mg.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “50% chicken”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
50% chicken (23% freshly prepared free-run chicken, 23% dri…Named meat50%
26% riceGrain26%
barleyGrainNot given
potato 8% peasVegetable, fruit or plant8%
6% oatsGrain6%
lucerneOtherNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
1% salmon oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
yeast products (1000mg/kg)OtherNot given
chicory root extract (FOS 1000mg/kg)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
seaweedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
glucosamine (500mg/kg)OtherNot given
dried carrot (500mg/kg)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
mixed herbs (peppermint, rosemary, oregano and thyme 500mg/…Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
beta glucans (300mg/kg)OtherNot given
chondroitin sulphate (150mg/kg).OtherNot given

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

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Nutrition

The label gives no analysis.

EnergyNot on label

Why it scores 46

The kind of meat scored best (10.2 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    20.2 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label15.2 / 35 points

      43.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level5 / 10 points

      The label doesn’t give the protein and moisture we need: half marks.

  2. How much starch?

    10 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: The label doesn’t give enough of its analysis to estimate the carbohydrate: half marks.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    10.2 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed10.2 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 85% 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 10% of dry foods. 18 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.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 27 ingredients.

27 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, barley, beta-glucans, carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, chondroitin, glucosamine, herbs, l-carnitine, minerals, oats, potato, rice, salmon oil, seaweed, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, 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: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg · £116.49Economy Pack: 2 x 12kg£116.49£4.85/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK12kg · £59.0912kg£59.09£4.92/kgVisit

Price has moved by less than 1% since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK12kg£59.09£4.92/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£116.49£4.85/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK12kg£55.69£4.64/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£109.49£4.56/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK12kg£58.89£4.91/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£115.99£4.83/kg

Your dog

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Sources

Matches the maker’s own page.

Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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