Barking Heads Fuss Pot Dry Dog Food Duck

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Barking Heads Fuss Pot Dry Dog Food Duck

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFree-range
40/ 100
WeakTop 20% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • One animal protein: duck
  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: Duck 50% (27% Freshly Prepared Free Run Duck, 19% Dried Duck, 2% Duck Fat, 2% Duck Gravy) Sweet Potato (24%), Peas (12%), Potato… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
46%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~40%
kcal/100 g
383

Ingredients

Listed first: Duck. 46% of the recipe is declared meat.

Duck 50% (27% Freshly Prepared Free Run Duck, 19% Dried Duck, 2% Duck Fat, 2% Duck Gravy) Sweet Potato (24%), Peas (12%), Potato, Lucerne, Linseed, Minerals, Yeast Products (1000mg/kg), Chicory Root Extract (FOS 1000mg/kg), Seaweed, Dried Carrot (500mg/kg), Mixed Herbs (Peppermint, Rosemary, Oregano and Thyme 500mg/kg), Beta Glucans

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A 17,000 IU, Vitamin D3 1,000 IU, Vitamin E 100mg; 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 Aromatic Herbs Selenium, Vitamin E

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Duck 50% (27% Freshly Prepared Free Run Duck, 19% Dried Duc…Named meat50%
Peas (12%)Vegetable, fruit or plant12%
PotatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
LucerneOtherNot given
LinseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
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
Dried Carrot (500mg/kg)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Mixed Herbs (Peppermint, Rosemary, Oregano and Thyme 500mg/…Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Beta GlucansOtherNot given

4% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 40%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein24%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat18%20%
Carbohydrate~36%~40%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.5%3.9%
Ash8.5%9.4%
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.

Energy383 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 40

The kind of meat scored best (10.5 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    17.2 / 45
    • Meat on the label16.1 / 35

      46% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10

      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?

    6.7 / 20

    About 40% 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?

    10.5 / 15
    • How the meat is listed10.5 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 88% 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 20% of dry foods. 25 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 40% to 25% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 21 ingredients.

21 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, beta-glucans, carrot, chicory root extract, duck, herbs, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, peas, potato, seaweed, 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: 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 Home12kg · £55.59 up 11% since 10 Aug12kg£55.59£4.63/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home2kg · £14.89 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£14.89£7.45/kgVisit
Pets at Home1.5kg · £14.89Out of stock up 11% since 10 Aug1.5kg£14.89£9.93/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£14.89 (out of stock)£9.93/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12kg£55.59£4.63/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£14.89£7.45/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£10.00 (out of stock)£6.67/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£50.03£4.17/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£10.00£5.00/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£13.40 (out of stock)£8.93/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£50.03£4.17/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£13.40£6.70/kg

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 9 to 20 points higher and cost up to 5% more.

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Carbs
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To feed
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Carbs
about 24% this food about 40%
To feed
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Carbs
about 27% this food about 40%
To feed
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Carbs
about 33% this food about 40%
To feed
64% less per 1,000 kcal

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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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