Eukanuba Special Care Adult Large Weight Control

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Eukanuba Special Care Adult Large Weight Control

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
24/ 100
WeakTied 797th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • About 58% carbs (dry weight)
  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Maize, dried chicken and -turkey (15%, including 11% chicken, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin and taurine)… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
25%
Protein, dry weight
23%
Carbs, dry weight
~58%
kcal/100 g
327

Ingredients

Listed first: Maize. 25% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 25%
  • Plants 3.1%
  • Other 0.7%
  • No amount given 71.2%

Maize, dried chicken and -turkey (15%, including 11% chicken, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin and taurine), fresh chicken (10%), barley, millet, wheat, dried sugar beet pulp (3.1%), fish meal, chicken gravy, poultry fat, minerals (including 0.36% sodium hexametaphosphate), dried whole egg, linseeds, dried brewer's yeast [a natural source of B-vitamins and selenium], fructo-oligosacharides (0.26%, a natural prebiotic), glucosamine [from animal tissue] (0.04%)

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 [ferrous(II)-amino acids chelate hydrate] (50mg), copper [cupric(II)-amino acids chelate hydrate] (5mg), zinc [amino acids zinc chelate hydrate] (62.5mg), manganese [amino acids manganous chelate hydrate] (10mg), iodine [calcium iodate anhydrous] (1.5mg), selenium [sodium selenite] (0.1mg). Technological additives: Antioxidants [tocopherol-rich extracts from vegetable oil] (5mg). Sensory additives: Flavourings [rosemary extract].

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Maize”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
MaizeGrainNot given
dried chicken and -turkey (15%, including 11% chicken, a na…Named meat15%
fresh chicken (10%)Named meat10%
barleyGrainNot given
milletGrainNot given
wheatGrainNot given
dried sugar beet pulp (3.1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3.1%
fish mealMeat, animal not namedNot given
chicken gravyFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
poultry fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
minerals (including 0.36% sodium hexametaphosphate)Other0.4%
dried whole eggOtherNot given
linseedsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried brewer's yeast [a natural source of B-vitamins and se…OtherNot given
fructo-oligosacharides (0.26%, a natural prebiotic)Other0.3%
glucosamine [from animal tissue] (0.04%).Other0.04%

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Nutrition

Protein 23% and carbs about 58%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein21%23%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat8.5%9.4%
Carbohydrate~52%~58%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.7%3%
Ash6%6.7%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%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.

Energy327 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 24

The kind of meat scored best (9.4 of 15). Starch scored lowest (0.8 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    9.4 / 45
    • Meat on the label8.8 / 35

      25% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.6 / 10

      Protein is 23.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    0.8 / 20

    About 57.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.4 / 15
    • How the meat is listed9.4 / 12

      The label lists the meat as dried, fresh and unnamed meal, which earns 79% 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

      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

Tied 797th of 1,171 dry foods. 50 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 58% to 37% by dry weight, and protein is about 37%.

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

Antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, fish, flavourings (unspecified), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), millet, minerals, poultry fat, tocopherols (vitamin E), wheat

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients

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.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

ShopPackPricePer kg
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg · £90.89Economy Pack: 2 x 15kg£90.89£3.03/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK15kg · £46.2915kg£46.29£3.09/kgVisit

Price has moved by less than 1% since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK15kg£46.29£3.09/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£90.89£3.03/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK15kg£46.29£3.09/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£90.89£3.03/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK15kg£46.69£3.11/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£91.69£3.06/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

3 dry foods score 24 to 33 points higher and cost up to 23% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
73% this food 25%
Carbs
about 24% this food about 58%
To feed
11% more per 1,000 kcal

+33 pointsCompare

Meat
59% this food 25%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 58%
To feed
53% less per 1,000 kcal

+25 pointsCompare

Meat
50% this food 25%
Carbs
about 36% this food about 58%
To feed
23% more per 1,000 kcal

+24 pointsCompare

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.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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