Bellfor Cold-pressed dry food for dogs with chicken - grain-free - Wiesen-Schmaus

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil

It scores 35 out of 100 (Weak), top 36% of dry foods. It is a complete dry food for adult dogs. No shop we track sells it right now.

35/ 100
WeakTop 36% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 20 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Fresh meat, named by animal
  • Cold-pressed, not extruded

Worth knowing

  • Meat amount not given
  • About 51% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Chicken (fresh chicken & dried chicken), potatoes, potato flour, peas (ground), poultry fat… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
Not on label
Protein, dry weight
26%
Carbs, dry weight
~51%
kcal/100 g
356

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. The label gives no meat figure.

Chicken (fresh chicken & dried chicken), potatoes, potato flour, peas (ground), poultry fat, linseed, sweet potatoes (ground), salmon oil, brewer‘s yeast, whole egg, apple (ground), cranberry, inulin (FOS), tomato (ground), echinacea, yucca schidigera powder, glucosamine, chondroitin

Meat named animal protein

From the maker’s website, checked 20 Oct 2026.

Additives

Trace elements: Copper 10mg, Copper chelate 5mg, Zinc 100mg, Zinc chelate 50mg, Iron 70mg, Iron chelate 35mg, Manganese 50mg, Manganese chelate 25mg, Iodine 2mg, Selenium 0.1mg. Vitamins: Vitamin A 18,000 IE, Vitamin D3 1,800 IE, Vitamin E 500 IE, Vitamin C 200mg, Vitamin B1 10mg, Vitamin B2 15mg, Vitamin B5 30mg, Vitamin B6 10mg, Vitamin B12 100 μg, Folic acid 3mg, Biotin 400 μg, Choline 1,500mg, Niacin 60mg. Amino acids: L-carnitine 50mg, Taurine 1,000mg

How we read this label

First ingredient: “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
Chicken (fresh chicken & dried chicken)Named meatNot given
potatoesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
potato flourVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
peas (ground)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
poultry fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
sweet potatoes (ground)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
salmon oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
brewer‘s yeastOtherNot given
whole eggOtherNot given
apple (ground)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
cranberryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
inulin (FOS)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
tomato (ground)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
echinaceaOtherNot given
yucca schidigera powderOtherNot given
glucosamineOtherNot given
chondroitinOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 26% and carbs about 51%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein24%26%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat13%14%
Carbohydrate~46%~51%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.7%3%
Ash5.3%5.8%
Moisture9%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.

Energy356 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 35

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3.2 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    9.9 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label8.8 / 35 points

      Meat is named but the label doesn’t say how much, so a quarter of the points.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 26.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    3.2 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 50.5% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    10 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Cold-pressed: 10 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed12 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% 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 36% of dry foods. 41 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 51% to 32% 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. 36 flagged nothing.

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

Apples, biotin (vitamin H/B7), chicken, chicory root extract, choline chloride, chondroitin, cranberries, egg, folic acid (folate), glucosamine, l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), peas, potato, poultry fat, salmon oil, sodium bicarbonate, sweet potato, taurine, tomato, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), 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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Echinacea

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

Your dog

Grams a day for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 24 to 28 points higher.

Compare side by side →
Carbs
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Carbs
about 33% this food about 51%

+24 pointsCompare

Carbs
about 26% this food about 51%

+24 pointsCompare

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

Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 20 Oct 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 20 Oct 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

Page we read, saved 20 Oct 2026: Bellfor (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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