Eukanuba Special Care Adult Working & Endurance

2 prices from Zooplus UK

Eukanuba Special Care Adult Working & Endurance

DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil
41/ 100
WeakTop 18% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Dried chicken and -turkey (26%, including 18% chicken, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin and taurine)… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
47%
Protein, dry weight
33%
Carbs, dry weight
~35%
kcal/100 g
386

Ingredients

Listed first: Dried chicken and -turkey. 47% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 47%
  • Plants 2.9%
  • Other 0.6%
  • No amount given 49.5%

Dried chicken and -turkey (26%, including 18% chicken, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin and taurine), fresh chicken (21%), maize, pork fat, wheat, rice, milet, dried sugar beet pulp (2.9%), chicken gravy, fish meal, linseeds, minerals (including 0.3% sodium hexametaphosphate), fish oil [a natural source of omega-3 fatty acids], dried whole egg, dried brewer's yeast [a natural source of B-vitamins and selenium], fructo-oligosaccharides (0.3%, a natural prebiotic)

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 manganese chelate hydrate] (10mg), iodine [calcium iodate anhydrous] (1.5mg). Antioxidants: Tocopherol-rich extracts from vegetable oil (26mg). Flavourings: Rosemary extract.

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 labelWe read it asShare on the label
Dried chicken and -turkey (26%, including 18% chicken, a na…Named meat26%
fresh chicken (21%)Named meat21%
maizeGrainNot given
pork fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
wheatGrainNot given
riceGrainNot given
miletOtherNot given
dried sugar beet pulp (2.9%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2.9%
chicken gravyFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
fish mealMeat, animal not namedNot given
linseedsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
minerals (including 0.3% sodium hexametaphosphate)Other0.3%
fish oil [a natural source of omega-3 fatty acids]Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried whole eggOtherNot given
dried brewer's yeast [a natural source of B-vitamins and se…OtherNot given
fructo-oligosaccharides (0.3%, a natural prebiotic).Other0.3%

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Nutrition

Protein 33% and carbs about 35%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein30%33%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat20%22%
Carbohydrate~32%~35%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre1.9%2.1%
Ash6.5%7.2%
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.

Energy386 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 41

The kind of meat scored best (9.8 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    18.7 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label16.5 / 35 points

      47% 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%.

  2. How much starch?

    8.3 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 35.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.8 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.8 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as dried, fresh and unnamed meal, which earns 82% 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

Top 18% of dry foods. 25 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 35% to 22% 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.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 25 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.

25 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, antioxidants, beet pulp, beta-carotene (provitamin A), broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, fish, flavourings (unspecified), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), minerals, rice, 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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Milet

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: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg · £86.49Economy Pack: 2 x 15kg£86.49£2.88/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK15kg · £44.0915kg£44.09£2.94/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK15kg£44.09£2.94/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£86.49£2.88/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK15kg£44.09£2.94/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£86.49£2.88/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK15kg£43.99£2.93/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£86.29£2.88/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 8 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
59% this food 47%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 35%
To feed
42% less per 1,000 kcal

+8 points

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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