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Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- About 53% carbs (dry weight)
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: Fresh chicken (20%)… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- 38%
- Protein, dry weight
- 26%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~53%
- kcal/100 g
- 338
Ingredients
Listed first: Fresh chicken. 38% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 38%
- Plants 2.1%
- Other 0.6%
- No amount given 59.3%
Fresh chicken (20%), dried chicken and turkey (18% including 13% chicken, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin and taurine), maize, wheat, maize grits, oats, barley, millet, dried sugar beet pulp (2.1%), chicken gravy, poultry fat, minerals (including 0.34% sodium hexametaphosphate), fructo-oligosaccharides (0.25%, a natural prebiotic), dried whole egg, dried brewer's yeast [natural source of B-vitamins and selenium], glucosamine [from animal tissue] (0.04%), chondroitin sulphate (0.004%)
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 [manganese (II) sulphate monohydrate] (10mg), iodine [calcium iodate anhydrous] (1.5mg). Technological additives: Antioxidant: tocopherol-containing extracts from vegetable oil (7mg). Sensory additives: Flavouring agents: rosemary extract.
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 (18% including 13% chicken, a natu… | Named meat | 18% |
| maize | Grain | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| maize grits | Grain | Not given |
| oats | Grain | Not given |
| barley | Grain | Not given |
| millet | Grain | Not given |
| dried sugar beet pulp (2.1%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2.1% |
| chicken gravy | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| poultry fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| minerals (including 0.34% sodium hexametaphosphate) | Other | 0.3% |
| fructo-oligosaccharides (0.25%, a natural prebiotic) | Other | 0.3% |
| dried whole egg | Other | Not given |
| dried brewer's yeast [natural source of B-vitamins and sele… | Other | Not given |
| glucosamine [from animal tissue] (0.04%) | Other | 0.04% |
| chondroitin sulphate (0.004%). | Other | 0.004% |
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Nutrition
Protein 26% and carbs about 53%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 23.5% | 26% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 10.5% | 12% |
| Carbohydrate | ~48% | ~53% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.1% | 2.3% |
| Ash | 6.4% | 7.1% |
| 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.
Why it scores 32
The kind of meat scored best (10.3 of 15). Starch scored lowest (2.4 of 20).
How much meat?
14.3 / 45 points- Meat on the label13.3 / 35 points
38% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1 / 10 points
Protein is 26.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
2.4 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 52.8% 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?
10.3 / 15 points- How the meat is listed10.3 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 86% 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 53% to 33% 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 28 ingredients.
28 ingredients with nothing flagged
Antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), broth (meat stock), chicken, chondroitin, egg, flavourings (unspecified), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, l-carnitine, maize (corn), millet, minerals, oats, poultry, poultry fat, rosemary, 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.
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, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), millet, minerals, oats, poultry, poultry fat, rosemary, wheat
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Antioxidants, barley, beta-carotene (provitamin A), chondroitin, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, l-carnitine, millet, poultry, poultry fat, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlRosemary
- 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
- FSA register of feed additives (GB)Rosemary
- 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
Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide
Prices
One shop we track sells this: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Down 5% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Zooplus UK down 5%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Zooplus UK | 15kg | £46.19 | £3.08/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Zooplus UK | Economy Pack: 2 x 15kg | £90.69 | £3.02/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Zooplus UK | 15kg | £46.19 | £3.08/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Zooplus UK | Economy Pack: 2 x 15kg | £90.69 | £3.02/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Zooplus UK | 15kg | £48.69 | £3.25/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Zooplus UK | Economy Pack: 2 x 15kg | £95.69 | £3.19/kg |
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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: Zooplus UK.
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