2 prices from The Dogs Dinner and Animal Station Linwood
RawCompleteAll agesGrain-free
ExcellentTied 120th of 258 raw foods
Good points
- Meat, fish and organ only
- Almost no starch
- Raw, the least processed
Worth knowing
- Some meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Chicken and Lamb cuts, bone, heart, liver, spleen All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 100%
- Protein, dry weight
- 39%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~0%
- kcal/100 g
- 216
Ingredients
Listed first: Chicken and Lamb cuts. 100% of the recipe is declared meat.
Chicken and Lamb cuts, bone, heart, liver, spleen
Meat named animal protein
How we read this label
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken and Lamb cuts | Named meat | Not given |
| bone | Other | Not given |
| heart | Organ meat | Not given |
| liver | Organ meat | Not given |
| spleen | Organ meat | Not given |
Every ingredient is meat, fish, organ or bone, so we read the food as all meat.
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Nutrition
Protein 39% and carbs about 0%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 15.3% | 39% |
| below the usual 42 to 56% for raw foods | ||
| Fat | 19.1% | 49% |
| Carbohydrate | ~0% | ~0% |
| within the usual 0 to 8% for raw foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.4% | 6.2% |
| Ash | 2.1% | 5.4% |
| Moisture | 61.1% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the raw foods we rate.
Energy216 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 88
Full marks for starch and how it’s made. The kind of meat scored lowest (10.5 of 15).
How much meat?
38.2 / 45 points- Meat on the label35 / 35 points
Every ingredient is meat, fish, organ or bone, so we read it as all meat.
- Protein level3.2 / 10 points
Protein is 39.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
20 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 0% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
20 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Raw: 20 of 20.
What kind of meat?
10.5 / 15 points- How the meat is listed7.5 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh and unnamed fresh, which earns 63% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.
- Organ meat3 / 3 points
Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.
No ingredient deductions.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other raw 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 3 ingredients. 2 are not in our ingredient database yet.
3 ingredients with nothing flagged
Chicken, heart (animal organ), liver (animal organ)
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)Chicken, heart (animal organ), liver (animal organ)
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Heart (animal organ), liver (animal organ)
2 not in our ingredient database yet
Bone, spleen
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
Lowest £4.30/kg at The Dogs Dinner, 14% below the dearest. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
No price has changed since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Animal Station Linwood | 500g | £2.50 | £5.00/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | The Dogs Dinner | 500g | £2.15 | £4.30/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Animal Station Linwood | 500g | £2.50 | £5.00/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | The Dogs Dinner | 500g | £2.15 | £4.30/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
3 raw foods score 7 to 9 points higher and cost up to 21% more.
Sources
Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.
Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.
Pages we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Animal Station Linwood, The Dogs Dinner.
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