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DryCompletePuppyContains grainFish oil
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- About 49% carbs (dry weight)
- Some meat not named by animal
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: fresh chicken (20%)… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- 35%
- Protein, dry weight
- 28%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~49%
- kcal/100 g
- 360
Ingredients
Listed first: Fresh chicken. 35% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 35%
- Plants 2.5%
- Other 0.6%
- No amount given 61.9%
fresh chicken (20%), dried chicken and turkey (15% including chicken 9%, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and taurine), maize, maize grits, wheat, oats, rice, fish meal (a natural source of omega-3 fatty acids), poultry fat, barley, dried beet pulp (2.5%), sorghum, chicken gravy, minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.33%), dried whole egg, fish oil (a natural source of omega-3 fatty acids), fructooligosaccharides (0.24%, a natural prebiotic), brewer's dried yeast (a natural source of B-vitamins and selenium), mannanoligosaccharides (a natural prebiotic)
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
omega-6 fatty acids 2.8%, omega-3 fatty acids 0.72%, calcium 0.95%, phosphorus 0.83%, DHA 0.18%. Trace Elements: copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate (copper) 8mg, potassium iodide (iodine) 1mg, manganous sulphate monohydrate (manganese) 3.7mg, zinc oxide (zinc) 93mg, sodium selenite (selenium) 0.05mg. Antioxidants: (natural) tocopherol extracts from vegetable oil 74mg. Flavouring compounds: organic rosemary extract 35mg, tea extract 18mg. Supplemented levels added at time of manufacture (/kg): Vitamins: vitamin A 46394IU, vitamin C 58mg, vitamin D3 1539IU, vitamin E 258mg, beta-carotene 5.1mg
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 (15% including chicken 9%, a natur… | Named meat | 15% |
| maize | Grain | Not given |
| maize grits | Grain | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| oats | Grain | Not given |
| rice | Grain | Not given |
| fish meal (a natural source of omega-3 fatty acids) | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| poultry fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| barley | Grain | Not given |
| dried beet pulp (2.5%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2.5% |
| sorghum | Grain | Not given |
| chicken gravy | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.33%) | Other | 0.3% |
| dried whole egg | Other | Not given |
| fish oil (a natural source of omega-3 fatty acids) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| fructooligosaccharides (0.24%, a natural prebiotic) | Other | 0.2% |
| brewer's dried yeast (a natural source of B-vitamins and se… | Other | Not given |
| mannanoligosaccharides (a natural prebiotic) | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 28% and carbs about 49%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 25% | 28% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 14% | 16% |
| Carbohydrate | ~44% | ~49% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 1.7% | 1.9% |
| Ash | 5.5% | 6.1% |
| 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.
Energy360 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 31
The kind of meat scored best (9.1 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3.8 of 20).
How much meat?
13.6 / 45 points- Meat on the label12.3 / 35 points
35% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.3 / 10 points
Protein is 27.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
3.8 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 48.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
5 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
9.1 / 15 points- How the meat is listed9.1 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh, dried and unnamed meal, which earns 76% 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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 49% to 27% by dry weight, and protein is about 35%.
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 29 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
29 ingredients with nothing flagged
Antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, fish, fish oil, flavourings (unspecified), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, oats, poultry, poultry fat, rice, sorghum, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), wheat, yeast
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, manganese, selenium, 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)Antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, fish, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, oats, poultry, poultry fat, rice, sorghum, wheat, yeast
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Antioxidants, barley, beta-carotene (provitamin A), fish, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), poultry, poultry fat, sorghum, yeast, manganese, selenium, 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
- Reg (EC) No 767/2009 Annex VII (legislation.gov.uk)Flavourings (unspecified)
- 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
Tea extract
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 · £38.99 up 11% since 10 Aug | 12kg | £38.99 | £3.25/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 | £38.99 | £3.25/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £35.09 | £2.92/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £35.09 | £2.92/kg |
Your dog
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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Matches the maker’s own page.
Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0
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