Forthglade Lightly Baked Chicken Dry Dog Food

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Forthglade Lightly Baked Chicken Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-free
47/ 100
FairTop 8% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • 50% meat
  • One animal protein: chicken
  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: Chicken (50%)* (Dried Chicken 25%*, Fresh Chicken 25%*), Dried Sweet Potato (26%)*, Dried Peas*, Dried Beet Pulp*, Chicken Gravy… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
50%
Protein, dry weight
37%
Carbs, dry weight
~39%
kcal/100 g
332

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 50% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 50%
  • Plants 26%
  • Other 0.5%
  • No amount given 23.5%

Chicken (50%)* (Dried Chicken 25%*, Fresh Chicken 25%*), Dried Sweet Potato (26%)*, Dried Peas*, Dried Beet Pulp*, Chicken Gravy, Dried Alfalfa*, Minerals, Chicory Root Extract (0.5%)*, Dried Brewer's Yeast*, Chicken Fat*, Dried Botanicals (Dandelion Leaf, Marigold)*, Yucca Extract (0.02%)*. Natural Ingredient

Meat named animal protein

From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.

Additives

Nutritional additives (per Kg): Vitamins: Vitamin A 15000IU, Vitamin D3 1500IU, Vitamin E 100mg. Trace elements: Zinc (as zinc sulphate monohydrate) 62.5mg, Iron (as iron (II) sulphate monohydrate) 50mg, Manganese (as manganous sulphate monohydrate) 10mg, Copper (as copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate) 10mg, Iodine (as calcium iodate anhydrous) 1.5mg, Selenium (as sodium selenite) 0.2mg.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken (50%)* (Dried Chicken 25%*, Fresh Chicken 25%*)Named meat50%
Dried Sweet Potato (26%)*Vegetable, fruit or plant26%
Dried Peas*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dried Beet Pulp*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Chicken GravyFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Dried Alfalfa*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
Chicory Root Extract (0.5%)*Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.5%
Dried Brewer's Yeast*OtherNot given
Chicken Fat*Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Dried Botanicals (Dandelion Leaf, Marigold)*OtherNot given
Yucca Extract (0.02%)*. Natural IngredientFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.02%

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Nutrition

Protein 37% and carbs about 39%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein33%37%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11%12%
Carbohydrate~35%~39%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.5%3.9%
Ash7.5%8.3%
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.

Energy332 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 47

The kind of meat scored best (10.2 of 15). Starch scored lowest (7 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    20.3 / 45
    • Meat on the label17.5 / 35

      50% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.8 / 10

      Protein is 36.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    7 / 20

    About 38.9% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    10 / 20

    Baked: 10 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    10.2 / 15
    • How the meat is listed10.2 / 12

      The label lists the meat as dried and fresh, which earns 85% 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

Top 8% of dry foods. 13 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 39% to 25% by dry weight, and protein is about 45%.

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

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 19 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 19 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
19 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicken, chicory root extract, minerals, peas, poultry fat, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), yeast

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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Dried botanicals

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: Forthglade. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Forthglade18kg · £67.8918kg£67.89£3.77/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Forthglade12kg · £48.9912kg£48.99£4.08/kgVisit
Forthglade6kg · £27.296kg£27.29£4.55/kgVisit
Forthglade2kg · £9.792kg£9.79£4.89/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Forthglade12kg£48.99£4.08/kg
4 Oct 2026Forthglade18kg£67.89£3.77/kg
4 Oct 2026Forthglade2kg£9.79£4.89/kg
4 Oct 2026Forthglade6kg£27.29£4.55/kg
28 Sep 2026Forthglade12kg£48.99£4.08/kg
28 Sep 2026Forthglade18kg£67.89£3.77/kg
28 Sep 2026Forthglade2kg£9.79£4.89/kg
28 Sep 2026Forthglade6kg£27.29£4.55/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

3 dry foods score 10 to 13 points higher and cost up to 12% more.

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Meat
78% this food 50%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 39%
To feed
9% more per 1,000 kcal

+13 pointsCompare

Meat
73% this food 50%
Carbs
about 24% this food about 39%
To feed
10% less per 1,000 kcal

+10 pointsCompare

Meat
74% this food 50%
Carbs
about 27% this food about 39%
To feed
12% more per 1,000 kcal

+10 pointsCompare

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Forthglade (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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