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DryCompleteAdultContains grain
Good points
- One main animal protein: beef
Worth knowing
- Dextrose (a sugar): −10 points
First ingredients: Wheat, Protein Pellets Containing Beef Meat Meal 21%, Dehydrated Beef 10%, Barley, Maize… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 31%
- Protein, dry weight
- 23%
- Carbs, dry weight
- Not on label
- kcal/100 g
- 341
Ingredients
Listed first: Wheat. 31% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 31%
- Other 0.6%
- No amount given 68.4%
Wheat, Protein Pellets Containing Beef Meat Meal 21%, Dehydrated Beef 10%, Barley, Maize, Chicken Oil, Soya Oil, Glucose, Peas, TurmerAid™ (0.6%), Vitamins and Minerals
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Additives
per kg: [Vitamins] Vitamin A 12,500 IU, Vitamin D3 1,500 IU, Vitamin E42 IU, Copper as Cuprise Sulphate 12 MG
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Wheat”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Wheat | Grain | Not given |
| Protein Pellets Containing Beef Meat Meal 21% | Named meat | 21% |
| Dehydrated Beef 10% | Named meat | 10% |
| Barley | Grain | Not given |
| Maize | Grain | Not given |
| Chicken Oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Soya Oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Glucose | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Peas | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| TurmerAid™ (0.6%) | Other | 0.6% |
| Vitamins and Minerals | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 23% with the water taken out.
As sold
Protein21%23% with the water taken out (10% water assumed)
Fat8%
Fibre4%
AshNot on label
MoistureNot on label
Energy341 kcal/100 g
Why it scores 24
Starch scored best (10 of 20). Meat scored lowest (11.5 of 45).
How much meat?
11.5 / 45 points- Meat on the label10.9 / 35 points
31% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level0.6 / 10 points
Protein is 23.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
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?
6.8 / 15 points- How the meat is listed6.8 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as meal and dried, which earns 57% 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.
Points lost for ingredients: Dextrose (−10).
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 ingredient costs 10 points: dextrose. 11 flagged nothing.
- 1 costs points
- 11 nothing flagged
- 1 not in our ingredient database yet
- DextroseCosts 10 pointsFeed material (carbohydrate)
Why it costs points and sources
Added sugar is there for taste. Dogs have no need for it, and it adds calories without nutrition.
11 ingredients with nothing flagged
Barley, beef, maize (corn), minerals, peas, poultry fat, soya oil, turmeric, wheat
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
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)Barley, beef, maize (corn), minerals, peas, poultry fat, soya oil, turmeric, wheat
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Barley, poultry fat, soya oil, turmeric
- EFSA 2020 (PMC7448085)Turmeric
- 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) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Protein pellets containing beef meat meal
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: Cobbydog. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Cobbydog | 12kg | £37.41 | £3.12/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Cobbydog | 3kg | £20.90 | £6.97/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Cobbydog | 12kg | £37.41 | £3.12/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Cobbydog | 3kg | £20.90 | £6.97/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
3 dry foods score 24 to 33 points higher and cost up to 25% more.
- Meat
- 73% this food 31%
- To feed
- 12% more per 1,000 kcal
+33 pointsCompare
Yorkshire Raw Dog Food Super65 Adult Dog Beef - A blend of 5 superfoods - Dry Food or
59% meatDry · Adult
Fair£1.75/kg
- Meat
- 59% this food 31%
- To feed
- 52% less per 1,000 kcal
+25 pointsCompare
- Meat
- 50% this food 31%
- To feed
- 25% more per 1,000 kcal
+24 pointsCompare
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: Cobbydog (the maker).
Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0
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