

1 price from Gentle Dog Food
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not declared
- About 51% carbs (dry weight)
First ingredients: Full egg dried 30%, Potato flakes 30%, Carrots dried and ground, Beet Root dried and ground, Pumpkin dried and ground… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 26%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~51%
- kcal/100 g
- 318
Ingredients
Listed first: Full egg dried. The label gives no meat figure.
Full egg dried 30%, Potato flakes 30%, Carrots dried and ground, Beet Root dried and ground, Pumpkin dried and ground, Beta vulgaris, Sea Algae dried and ground (Ascophyllum nodosum), Herb mixture, dried and ground (Stinging nettle, horsetail, dandelion) 3%, Apple dried and ground, Red currant dried and ground 1.5%, Blackcurrant dried and ground 1.5%, Acerola cherry powder, Yucca Schidigera (Mohave-Palm lily) dried and ground
From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Additives
Vitamins, Pro-Vitamins & Similar Effective Substances: /kg Vitamin A 10,000IU, Vitamin D3 1000IU, Vitamin E 200mg, Vitamin B1 3.5mg, Vitamin B2 (as Riboflavin) 7.0mg, Vitamin B6 (as Pyridoxin Hydrochloride) 4.2mg, Vitamin B12 42 µg, Biotin 210 µg, Folic Acid 0.35mg, Niacin 21mg, Vitamin C 140mg, Calcium-D-Pantothenate 7.0mg, Choline Chloride 2000mg, Copper (as Copper (II) chelate of glycine hydrate) 16mg, Manganese (as glycine manganese chelate hydrate) 52mg, Zinc (as glycine zinc chelate hydrate) 62.5mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 0.3mg, Selenium (as Sodium selenite) 150mcg
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Full egg dried 30%”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Full egg dried 30% | Other | 30% |
| Potato flakes 30% | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 30% |
| Carrots dried and ground | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Beet Root dried and ground | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Pumpkin dried and ground | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Beta vulgaris | Other | Not given |
| Sea Algae dried and ground (Ascophyllum nodosum) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Herb mixture | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| dried and ground (Stinging nettle, horsetail, dandelion) 3% | Other | 3% |
| Apple dried and ground | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Red currant dried and ground 1.5% | Other | 1.5% |
| Blackcurrant dried and ground 1.5% | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 1.5% |
| Acerola cherry powder | Other | Not given |
| Yucca Schidigera (Mohave-Palm lily) dried and ground | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 26% and carbs about 51%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 23% | 26% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 9% | 10% |
| Carbohydrate | ~46% | ~51% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 4.8% | 5.3% |
| Ash | 7.2% | 8% |
| 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 9
How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (0 of 15).
How much meat?
0.9 / 45 points- Meat on the label0 / 35 points
No meat declared.
- Protein level0.9 / 10 points
Protein is 25.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
3 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 51.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
6 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.
What kind of meat?
0 / 15 points- How the meat is listed0 / 12 points
No meat on the label.
- 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 51% to 33% by dry weight, and protein is about 38%.
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. 26 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 26 nothing flagged
- 6 not in our ingredient database yet
- Yucca extractNoted, no points takenFeed material (flavouring)
Why it’s noted and sources
Added to reduce stool odour. The ASPCA lists the yucca plant as toxic to dogs, and in a dog study the extract raised a liver enzyme at 750 mg/kg of food, though not at 500. Labels rarely give the amount. We note it, but take no points off.
26 ingredients with nothing flagged
Algae, apples, beetroot, biotin (vitamin H/B7), blackcurrant, carrot, choline chloride, folic acid (folate), herbs, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), potato, pumpkin, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamins
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, manganese, selenium, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Algae, apples, beetroot, biotin (vitamin H/B7), blackcurrant, choline chloride, folic acid (folate), herbs, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pumpkin, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamins, manganese, selenium, zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Algae, apples, beetroot, blackcurrant, carrot, herbs, potato, pumpkin
- 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
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- 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
6 not in our ingredient database yet
Acerola cherry powder, beta vulgaris, dried and ground, full egg dried, pro-vitamins & similar effective substances:, red currant dried and ground
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
No shop we track confirms it is in stock. Last price £8.80/kg at Gentle Dog Food.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gentle Dog Food5kg · £44.00Stock not confirmed | 5kg | £44.00 | £8.80/kg | Visit |
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Cost per day and grams for your dog
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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: Gentle Dog Food (the maker).
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