Beta Puppy Large Breed Turkey

Name: Beta Puppy Large Breed Turkey
Brand: Beta

DryCompletePuppyContains grainFish oil

WeakTied 699th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 27 Sep 2026

No ingredient deductions

Added plant protein, starch or fibre
Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Turkey meal (25%), wheat*, corn*, soya meal, poultry fat… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 25%
Protein, dry weight: 31%
Carbs, dry weight: ~42%
kcal/100 g: 350

Ingredients

Listed first: Turkey meal. 25% of the recipe is declared meat.

Meat 25%
Plants 1%
Other 0.2%
No amount given 73.8%

Turkey meal (25%), wheat*, corn*, soya meal, poultry fat, wheat middling, dried beet pulp, corn gluten, digest, dried chicory root* (1%), fish oil, minerals, dried carrot* (0.07%), dried spinach* (0.07%), dried parsley* (0.07%). *Natural ingredients

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (22,600 IU), vitamin D3 (1300 IU), vitamin E (105 IU), ferrous sulphate monohydrate (92mg), calcium iodate anhydrous (2.4mg), cupric sulphate pentahydrate (10mg), manganous sulphate monohydrate (7mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate (130mg), sodium selenite (0.22mg). Antioxidants.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Turkey meal”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the label	We read it as	Share on the label
Turkey meal (25%)	Named meat	25%
wheat*	Grain	Not given
corn*	Grain	Not given
soya meal	Other	Not given
poultry fat	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
wheat middling	Grain	Not given
dried beet pulp	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
corn gluten	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
digest	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
dried chicory root* (1%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	1%
fish oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
minerals	Other	Not given
dried carrot* (0.07%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	0.07%
dried spinach* (0.07%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	0.07%
dried parsley* (0.07%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	0.07%

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Nutrition

Protein 31% and carbs about 42%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 10% (assumed), left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	28%	31%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	14%	16%
Carbohydrate	~38%	~42%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	2.5%	2.8%
Ash	7.5%	8.3%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed	10%	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.

Energy350 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 26

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

How much meat?
10.7 / 45 points
- Meat on the label8.8 / 35 points
  25% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.9 / 10 points
  Protein is 31.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.9 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 42.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
4 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
6 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed6 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as meal, 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.

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Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Tied 699th of 1,171 dry foods. 51 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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 42% to 24% by dry weight, and protein is about 37%.

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 24 ingredients.

24 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, beet pulp, carrot, chicory root extract, digest (rendered meat digest), fish oil, maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, poultry fat, soya (soybean), spinach, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey, wheat, wheat middlings

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