Eukanuba Adult Breed Care Jack Russell Terrier

Name: Eukanuba Adult Breed Care Jack Russell Terrier
Brand: Eukanuba

DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil

WeakTop 36% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 27 Sep 2026

No ingredient deductions

Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Dried chicken and turkey (32%, including 22% chicken, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and taurine), maize… All ingredients

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Meat: 36%
Protein, dry weight: 31%
Carbs, dry weight: ~38%
kcal/100 g: 371

Ingredients

Listed first: Dried chicken and turkey. 36% of the recipe is declared meat.

Meat 36%
Plants 2.8%
Other 0.8%
No amount given 60.4%

Dried chicken and turkey (32%, including 22% chicken, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and taurine), maize, wheat, pork fat, fresh chicken (4%), millet, rice, barley, dried sugar beet pulp (2.8%), chicken gravy, minerals (including 0.38% sodium hexametaphosphate), linseeds, salmon oil, dried whole egg, fructo-oligosaccharides (0.38%, a natural prebiotic)

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Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (15,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1500 IU), vitamin E (250mg), beta-carotene (5mg), L-carnitine (50mg), iron [iron(II) sulphate monohydrate] (50mg), copper [copper(II) sulphate pentahydrate] (8mg), zinc [zinc sulphate monohydrate] (62.5mg), manganese [manganous(II) sulphate monohydrate] (10mg), iodine [calcium iodate anhydrous] (1.5mg). Antioxidants: Tocopherol extracts from vegetable oil (34mg). Flavourings: Rosemary extract. Contents contained at the time of manufacture.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Dried chicken and turkey”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the label	We read it as	Share on the label
Dried chicken and turkey (32%, including 22% chicken, a nat…	Named meat	32%
maize	Grain	Not given
wheat	Grain	Not given
pork fat	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
fresh chicken (4%)	Named meat	4%
millet	Grain	Not given
rice	Grain	Not given
barley	Grain	Not given
dried sugar beet pulp (2.8%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	2.8%
chicken gravy	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
minerals (including 0.38% sodium hexametaphosphate)	Other	0.4%
linseeds	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
salmon oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
dried whole egg	Other	Not given
fructo-oligosaccharides (0.38%, a natural prebiotic).	Other	0.4%

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Nutrition

Protein 31% and carbs about 38%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 10% (assumed), left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	28%	31%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	18%	20%
Carbohydrate	~34%	~38%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	2.2%	2.4%
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.

Energy371 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 35

The kind of meat scored best (8.8 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

How much meat?
14.5 / 45 points
- Meat on the label12.6 / 35 points
  36% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.9 / 10 points
  Protein is 31.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
7.3 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 38.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
5 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
8.8 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed8.8 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as dried and fresh, which earns 73% 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.

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Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Top 36% of dry foods. 39 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

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 38% to 24% by dry weight, and protein is about 43%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 27 ingredients.

27 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, flavourings (unspecified), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), millet, minerals, poultry, rice, salmon oil, tocopherols (vitamin E), wheat

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.

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