

1 price from Pets at Home
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- About 47% carbs (dry weight)
- Some meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Fish meal (19%), sweet potato, whole peas, potato, pork fat… All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- 27%
- Protein, dry weight
- 28%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~47%
- kcal/100 g
- 340
Ingredients
Listed first: Fish meal. 27% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 27%
- Plants 2.8%
- Other 51.7%
- No amount given 18.5%
Fish meal (19%), sweet potato, whole peas, potato, pork fat, freshly frozen salmon (4%), salmon meal (4%), fish gravy (3%), dried beet pulp (2.8%), sunflower oil, minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.4%), fructooligosaccharides (0.28%, a natural prebiotic), mannanoligosaccharides (0.15%, a natural prebiotic), glucosamine (from animal tissues) (0.045%), chondroitin sulphate (0.0045%) protein: 25.5%, fat content: 12%, omega-6 fatty acids: 1.9%, omega-3 fatty acids: 1%, crude ash: 7.4%, crude fibres: 2.7%, calcium: 1.08%, phosphorus: 0.86%
Meat named animal protein
Additives
Vitamins/KG: vitamin A 58900IU, vitamin C 60mg, vitamin D3 1026IU, vitamin E 210mg, beta-carotene 2.3mg. Trace Elements: copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate (copper) 11mg, potassium iodide (iodine) 2.3mg, manganous sulphate monohydrate (manganese) 34mg, zinc oxide (zinc) 100mg, iron (II) sulphate monohydrate (iron) 60mg. Supplemented levels added at time of manufacture.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Fish meal”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Fish meal (19%) | Meat, animal not named | 19% |
| sweet potato | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| whole peas | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| potato | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| pork fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| freshly frozen salmon (4%) | Named meat | 4% |
| salmon meal (4%) | Named meat | 4% |
| fish gravy (3%) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 3% |
| dried beet pulp (2.8%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2.8% |
| sunflower oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.4%) | Other | 0.4% |
| fructooligosaccharides (0.28%, a natural prebiotic) | Other | 0.3% |
| mannanoligosaccharides (0.15%, a natural prebiotic) | Other | 0.1% |
| glucosamine (from animal tissues) (0.045%) | Other | 0.045% |
| chondroitin sulphate (0.0045%) | Other | 0.004% |
| protein: 25.5% | Other | 25.5% |
| fat content: 12% | Other | 12% |
| omega-6 fatty acids: 1.9% | Other | 1.9% |
| omega-3 fatty acids: 1% | Other | 1% |
| crude ash: 7.4% | Other | 7.4% |
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Nutrition
Protein 28% and carbs about 47%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 25.5% | 28% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 12% | 13% |
| Carbohydrate | ~42% | ~47% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.7% | 3% |
| Ash | 7.4% | 8.2% |
| 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.
Why it scores 26
The kind of meat scored best (4.8 of 15). Starch scored lowest (4.3 of 20).
How much meat?
10.9 / 45 points- Meat on the label9.5 / 35 points
27% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.4 / 10 points
Protein is 28.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
4.3 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 47.1% 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?
4.8 / 15 points- How the meat is listed4.8 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as unnamed meal, fresh and meal, which earns 40% 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 47% to 29% by dry weight, and protein is about 36%.
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 25 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
25 ingredients with nothing flagged
Animal fats, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), broth (meat stock), chondroitin, fish, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, peas, potato, salmon, sunflower oil, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamins
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, 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)Animal fats, beet pulp, broth (meat stock), fish, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, peas, potato, salmon, sunflower oil, sweet potato
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Beta-carotene (provitamin A), chondroitin, fish, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), sunflower oil, vitamins, manganese, 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
- 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
Fat content
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
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home12kg · £43.99 up 11% since 10 Aug | 12kg | £43.99 | £3.67/kg | Visit |
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 | £43.99 | £3.67/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £39.59 | £3.30/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £39.59 | £3.30/kg |
Your dog
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Alternatives
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- Carbs
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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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