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DryCompleteAdultContains grain
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- About 57% carbs (dry weight)
- Some meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Maize, dried chicken and turkey (15%, a natural source of glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate), barley, sorghum, wheat… All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- 25%
- Protein, dry weight
- 23%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~57%
- kcal/100 g
- 352
Ingredients
Listed first: Maize. 25% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 25%
- Plants 3.1%
- Other 0.7%
- No amount given 71.2%
Maize, dried chicken and turkey (15%, a natural source of glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate), barley, sorghum, wheat, fresh chicken (10%), dried beet pulp (3.1%), fish meal, poultry fat, chicken gravy, minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.36%), dried whole egg, linseed, fructooligosaccharides (0.26%), brewer's dried yeast, glucosamine (from animal tissues) (0.04%)
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
Vitamin A: 47796IU/kg, vitamin D3: 1586IU/kg, vitamin E: 265mg/kg, L-carnitine: 50mg/kg, ?-carotene: 5.2mg/kg. Trace Elements: copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate (copper): 11mg/kg, potassium iodide (iodine): 2.1mg/kg, iron (II) sulphate monohydrate (iron): 56mg, manganous sulphate monohydrate (manganese): 32mg, zinc oxide (zinc): 94mg, sodium selenite (selenium): 0.09mg. Supplemented levels added at time of manufacture
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Maize”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Maize | Grain | Not given |
| dried chicken and turkey (15%, a natural source of glucosam… | Named meat | 15% |
| barley | Grain | Not given |
| sorghum | Grain | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| fresh chicken (10%) | Named meat | 10% |
| dried beet pulp (3.1%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3.1% |
| fish meal | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| poultry fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| chicken gravy | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.36%) | Other | 0.4% |
| dried whole egg | Other | Not given |
| linseed | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| fructooligosaccharides (0.26%) | Other | 0.3% |
| brewer's dried yeast | Other | Not given |
| glucosamine (from animal tissues) (0.04%) | Other | 0.04% |
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Nutrition
Protein 23% and carbs about 57%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 21% | 23% |
| below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 8.5% | 9.4% |
| Carbohydrate | ~51% | ~57% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.6% | 2.9% |
| Ash | 6.5% | 7.2% |
| 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.
Energy352 kcal/100 g
Why it scores 25
The kind of meat scored best (9.4 of 15). Starch scored lowest (1 of 20).
How much meat?
9.4 / 45 points- Meat on the label8.8 / 35 points
25% 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?
1 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 57.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
6 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.
What kind of meat?
9.4 / 15 points- How the meat is listed9.4 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as dried, fresh and unnamed meal, which earns 79% 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 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 →Less starch in the bowl
Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 57% to 35% by dry weight, and protein is about 38%.
Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.
Best wet foods →Ingredient notes
Nothing flagged in 26 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
26 ingredients with nothing flagged
Barley, beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, fish, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, poultry, poultry fat, sorghum, tocopherols (vitamin E), wheat, yeast
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
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Barley, beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, fish, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, poultry, poultry fat, sorghum, wheat, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Barley, fish, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, l-carnitine, poultry, poultry fat, sorghum, yeast, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- 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
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- 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
Carotene
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: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £38.99 | £3.25/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 2.3kg | £14.69 | £6.39/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £35.09 | £2.92/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 2.3kg | £14.69 | £6.39/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £35.09 | £2.92/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 2.3kg | £14.69 | £6.39/kg |
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Alternatives
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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- Carbs
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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
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