

1 price from Carnilove
Good points
- 67% meat
- Low starch, about 14% carbs
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Added plant protein, starch or fibre
First ingredients: Lamb (35%), wild boar (32%), water, blackcurrant (2%), pea flour (2%)… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 67%
- Protein, dry weight
- 43%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~14%
- kcal/100 g
- 105
Ingredients
Listed first: Lamb. 67% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 67%
- Plants 4%
- Other 1.3%
- No amount given 27.7%
Lamb (35%), wild boar (32%), water, blackcurrant (2%), pea flour (2%), lignocellulose (1%), calcium carbonate (0.3%)
Meat named animal protein
From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Additives
per kg: vitamin D3 (3a671) 200 I.U., vitamin E (3a700) 110 mg, biotin (3a880) 0.5 mg, copper (3b407) 0.4 mg, iron (3b107) 8.0 mg, potassium iodide (3b201) 0.5 mg, manganese (3b505) 2.4 mg, zinc (3b612) 20 mg, taurine (3a370) 800 mg.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Lamb”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Lamb (35%) | Named meat | 35% |
| wild boar (32%) | Named meat | 32% |
| water | Other | Not given |
| blackcurrant (2%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2% |
| pea flour (2%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2% |
| lignocellulose (1%) | Other | 1% |
| calcium carbonate (0.3%) | Other | 0.3% |
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Nutrition
Protein 43% and carbs about 14%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 9.5% | 43% |
| within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 6.5% | 30% |
| Carbohydrate | ~3.1% | ~14% |
| within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.4% | 1.8% |
| Ash | 2.5% | 11% |
| Moisture | 78% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.
Why it scores 61
The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (7 of 20).
How much meat?
27.4 / 45 points- Meat on the label23.5 / 35 points
67% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level3.9 / 10 points
Protein is 43.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
15.3 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 14.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
7 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.
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 wet 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
Nothing flagged in 15 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
15 ingredients with nothing flagged
Biotin (vitamin H/B7), blackcurrant, calcium carbonate, lamb, lignocellulose, peas, pork, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E)
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Biotin (vitamin H/B7), blackcurrant, calcium carbonate, lignocellulose, pork, taurine, manganese, zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Blackcurrant, calcium carbonate, lamb, lignocellulose, peas, pork
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Water
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
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Carnilove. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Sold in multipacks. Prices are for the whole pack.
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnilove6 x 400g · £20.10 | 6 x 400g | £20.10 | £8.38/kg | Visit |
Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Carnilove | 6 x 400g | £20.10 | £8.38/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Carnilove | 6 x 400g | £20.10 | £8.38/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
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- Meat
- 100% this food 67%
- Carbs
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- To feed
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- 72% this food 67%
- Carbs
- about 0% this food about 14%
- To feed
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- Meat
- 75% this food 67%
- Carbs
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- To feed
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- Meat
- 70% this food 67%
- Carbs
- about 3% this food about 14%
- To feed
- 67% less per 1,000 kcal
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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.
From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Carnilove (the maker).
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