

1 price from Pets at Home
Good points
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First ingredients: fresh chicken (20%)… All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- 40%
- Protein, dry weight
- 30%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~42%
- kcal/100 g
- 356
Ingredients
Listed first: Fresh chicken. 40% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 40%
- Plants 12.5%
- Other 0.7%
- No amount given 46.9%
fresh chicken (20%), dried chicken and turkey (20% including chicken 12%, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin and taurine), potato, whole peas, sweet potato (9%), poultry fat, dried beet pulp (3.5%), chicken gravy, dried whole egg, minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0,4%), brewer's dried yeast, linseed, fructooligosaccharides (0,25%, a natural prebiotic)
Meat named animal protein
Additives
omega-6 fatty acids: 2.1%, omega-3 fatty acids: 0.35%, calcium: 1.1%, phosphorus: 0.82%. 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 (/kg), Vitamins: vitamin A 38500IU, vitamin C 48mg, vitamin D3 1278IU, vitamin E 214mg, beta-carotene 4.2mg
How we read this label
First ingredient: “fresh chicken”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| fresh chicken (20%) | Named meat | 20% |
| dried chicken and turkey (20% including chicken 12%, a natu… | Named meat | 20% |
| potato | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| whole peas | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| sweet potato (9%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 9% |
| poultry fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| dried beet pulp (3.5%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3.5% |
| chicken gravy | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| dried whole egg | Other | Not given |
| minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.4%) | Other | 0.4% |
| brewer's dried yeast | Other | Not given |
| linseed | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| fructooligosaccharides (0.25%, a natural prebiotic) | Other | 0.3% |
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Nutrition
Protein 30% and carbs about 42%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 27% | 30% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 15% | 17% |
| Carbohydrate | ~38% | ~42% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 3.1% | 3.4% |
| Ash | 6.7% | 7.4% |
| 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 37
The kind of meat scored best (10.2 of 15). Starch scored lowest (5.9 of 20).
How much meat?
15.7 / 45 points- Meat on the label14 / 35 points
40% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.7 / 10 points
Protein is 30% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.9 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 42.4% 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?
10.2 / 15 points- How the meat is listed10.2 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 85% 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 42% to 27% by dry weight, and protein is about 42%.
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 23 ingredients.
23 ingredients with nothing flagged
Beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), linseed (flaxseed), minerals, peas, potato, poultry, poultry fat, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), yeast
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)Beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), linseed (flaxseed), minerals, peas, potato, poultry, poultry fat, sweet potato, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Beta-carotene (provitamin A), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), poultry, poultry fat, yeast, 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
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
Cost per day and grams for your dog
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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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