
Bellfor Dry food for dogs with chicken - grain-free - Freiland-Schmaus Mini (Free-Range feast Mini)
It scores 45 out of 100 (Fair), top 12% of dry foods. It is a complete dry food for adult dogs with 40% declared meat. No shop we track sells it right now.
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
First ingredients: Chicken (20 % fresh chicken & 20 % dried chicken), peas (ground), potato (ground), chicken fat, beet pulp (desugared)… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 40%
- Protein
- Not on label
- Carbs, dry weight
- Not on label
- kcal/100 g
- Not on label
Ingredients
Listed first: Chicken. 40% of the recipe is declared meat.
Chicken (20 % fresh chicken & 20 % dried chicken), peas (ground), potato (ground), chicken fat, beet pulp (desugared), salmon oil, carob, whole egg, brewer's yeast, linseed, inulin (source of FOS), carrots (ground), nettle, echinacea, tomatoes (ground), apple (ground)l, mango (ground), plum (ground), banana (ground), thyme, basil, spirulina, cranberry, celery, glucosamine, chondroitin, yucca schidigera powder. 463 2 Questions & Answers
Meat named animal protein
From the maker’s website, checked 20 Oct 2026.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Chicken”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken (20% fresh chicken & 20% dried chicken) | Named meat | 40% |
| peas (ground) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| potato (ground) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| chicken fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| beet pulp (desugared) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| salmon oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| carob | Other | Not given |
| whole egg | Other | Not given |
| brewer's yeast | Other | Not given |
| linseed | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| inulin (source of FOS) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| carrots (ground) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| nettle | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| echinacea | Other | Not given |
| tomatoes (ground) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| apple (ground)l | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| mango (ground) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| plum (ground) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| banana (ground) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| thyme | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
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Nutrition
The label gives no analysis.
Why it scores 45
The kind of meat scored best (10.2 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (6 of 20).
How much meat?
19 / 45 points- Meat on the label14 / 35 points
40% 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.
How much starch?
10 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: The label doesn’t give enough of its analysis to estimate the carbohydrate: half marks.
How processed?
6 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.
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
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 →Ingredient notes
1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 22 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 22 nothing flagged
- 5 not in our ingredient database yet
- Yucca extractNoted, no points takenFeed material (flavouring)
Why it’s noted and sources
Added to reduce stool odour. The ASPCA lists the yucca plant as toxic to dogs, and in a dog study the extract raised a liver enzyme at 750 mg/kg of food, though not at 500. Labels rarely give the amount. We note it, but take no points off.
22 ingredients with nothing flagged
Apples, basil, beet pulp, carob, carrot, celery, chicken, chicory root extract, chondroitin, cranberries, egg, glucosamine, linseed (flaxseed), nettle, peas, potato, poultry fat, salmon oil, spirulina, thyme, tomato, yeast
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Apples, basil, beet pulp, carrot, celery, chicken, chicory root extract, cranberries, egg, linseed (flaxseed), nettle, peas, potato, poultry fat, salmon oil, spirulina, thyme, tomato, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Apples, basil, celery, chicory root extract, chondroitin, cranberries, glucosamine, nettle, poultry fat, spirulina, thyme, tomato, yeast
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlCarob
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlThyme
- EFSA FEEDAP (PMC13063795)Cranberries
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Carob
5 not in our ingredient database yet
Answers, banana, echinacea, mango, plum
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
Daily calories for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 14 to 18 points higher.

- Meat
- 78.5% this food 40%
+18 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 78% this food 40%
+15 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 79.5% this food 40%
+14 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 76% this food 40%
+14 pointsCompare
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).
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