

1 price from Pets at Home
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: Dried chicken & turkey (30% including chicken 21%, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin & taurine), fresh chicken (15%)… All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- 45%
- Protein, dry weight
- 33%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~37%
- kcal/100 g
- 374
Ingredients
Listed first: Dried chicken & turkey. 45% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 45%
- Plants 3.5%
- Other 0.7%
- No amount given 50.8%
Dried chicken & turkey (30% including chicken 21%, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin & taurine), fresh chicken (15%), barley, wheat, maize, poultry fat, sorghum, oats, dried beet pulp (3,5%), chicken gravy, minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.35%), dried whole egg, fructooligosaccharides (0.38%, a natural prebiotic)
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
per kg: Vitamins: vitamin A 15000IU, vitamin D3 1500IU, vitamin E 250mg, betacarotene 5mg, L-carnitine 50mg. Trace elements: iron (iron (II) sulphate monohydrate): 50mg, copper (copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate) 8mg, zinc (zinc sulphate monohydrate) 62.5mg, manganese (manganous sulphate monohydrate) 10mg, iodine (calcium iodate anhydrous) 1.5mg. Antioxidants: (natural) tocopherol extracts from vegetable oil 29mg Flavouring compounds: rosemary extract
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Dried chicken & turkey”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Dried chicken & turkey (30% including chicken 21%, a natura… | Named meat | 30% |
| fresh chicken (15%) | Named meat | 15% |
| barley | Grain | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| maize | Grain | Not given |
| poultry fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| sorghum | Grain | Not given |
| oats | Grain | Not given |
| dried beet pulp (3.5%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3.5% |
| chicken gravy | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.35%) | Other | 0.3% |
| dried whole egg | Other | Not given |
| fructooligosaccharides (0.38%, a natural prebiotic) | Other | 0.4% |
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Nutrition
Protein 33% and carbs about 37%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 30% | 33% |
| above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 18% | 20% |
| Carbohydrate | ~33% | ~37% |
| below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.2% | 2.4% |
| 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 40
The kind of meat scored best (9.6 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).
How much meat?
18 / 45 points- Meat on the label15.8 / 35 points
45% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level2.2 / 10 points
Protein is 33.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
7.7 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 36.8% 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?
9.6 / 15 points- How the meat is listed9.6 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as dried and fresh, which earns 80% 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 37% to 23% by dry weight, and protein is about 44%.
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 26 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
26 ingredients with nothing flagged
Antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicken, chondroitin, egg, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, l-carnitine, maize (corn), minerals, oats, poultry fat, sorghum, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey, 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), minerals, oats, poultry fat, sorghum, turkey, wheat
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Antioxidants, barley, chondroitin, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, l-carnitine, poultry fat, sorghum, taurine, 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
Betacarotene
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 Home3kg · £16.49 up 11% since 10 Aug | 3kg | £16.49 | £5.50/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 | 3kg | £16.49 | £5.50/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 3kg | £14.84 | £4.95/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 3kg | £14.84 | £4.95/kg |
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Alternatives
4 dry foods score 17 to 20 points higher and cost up to 23% more.

- Meat
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- Carbs
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- Carbs
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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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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