Durham (DAF): Beef & Brussels Mince

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Durham (DAF): Beef & Brussels Mince

RawComplementary: fed with other foodAdultGrain-free
83/ 100
ExcellentWhy it scores 83

Fed with other food, not on its own.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 80% meat
  • Almost no starch
  • Raw, the least processed

Worth knowing

  • Some meat not named by animal

First ingredients: (70% Meat, 10% Bone, 10% Offal and 10% Brussel Sprouts), Beef Cuts, Bone, Heart, Liver… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
80%
Protein, dry weight
50%
Carbs, dry weight
~0%
kcal/100 g
162

Ingredients

Listed first: Beef Cuts. 80% of the recipe is declared meat.

(70% Meat, 10% Bone, 10% Offal and 10% Brussel Sprouts), Beef Cuts, Bone, Heart, Liver, Kidney, Spleen, Brussel Sprouts

Meat named animal protein

How we read this label
Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Beef CutsNamed meatNot given
BoneOtherNot given
HeartOrgan meatNot given
LiverOrgan meatNot given
KidneyOrgan meatNot given
SpleenOrgan meatNot given
Brussel SproutsOtherNot given

The label opens with its own meat figure of 80%, so we count at least that much.

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Nutrition

Protein 50% and carbs about 0%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein16.6%50%
Fat12.2%37%
Carbohydrate~0%~0%
Fibre1.2%3.6%
Ash3%9.1%
Moisture67%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares.

Energy162 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 83

Full marks for starch and how it’s made. The kind of meat scored lowest (10.2 of 15).

  1. How much meat?

    33.1 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label28 / 35 points

      80% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level5.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 50.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    20 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 0% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    20 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Raw: 20 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    10.2 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed7.2 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and unnamed fresh, which earns 60% 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.

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.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 4 ingredients. 5 are not in our ingredient database yet.

4 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beef, heart (animal organ), kidney (animal organ), liver (animal organ)

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients
5 not in our ingredient database yet

Bone, brussel sprouts, meat, offal and 10% brussel sprouts, 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

One shop we track sells this: Hilltop Pet Food. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Hilltop Pet FoodSingle 454g · £1.69Single 454g£1.69£3.72/kgVisit

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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.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Hilltop Pet Food.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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