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Good points
- One main animal protein: pork
- No ingredient deductions
- Fresh meat, named by animal
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not given
- About 51% carbs (dry weight)
First ingredients: Iberico pig meat, dried and ground 30%, Potato flakes… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 27%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~51%
- kcal/100 g
- 326
Ingredients
Listed first: Iberico pig meat. The label gives no meat figure.
Iberico pig meat, dried and ground 30%, Potato flakes, Vegetable mixture - dried and ground (peas, beet root, carrots, chicory) 20%, Beta vulgaris, Rapeseed oil, Hemp oil, Apple dried and ground, Redcurrant dried and ground, Sea algae (Ascophyllum nodosum), Cod oil, Herbs - dried and ground (stinging nettles, horsetail, dandelion) 2%, Linseeds, Moor (mineral clay)
Meat named animal protein
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 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: “Iberico pig meat”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Iberico pig meat | Named meat | Not given |
| dried and ground 30% | Other | 30% |
| Potato flakes | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Vegetable mixture - dried and ground (peas, beet root, carr… | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 20% |
| Beta vulgaris | Other | Not given |
| Rapeseed oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Hemp oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Apple dried and ground | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Redcurrant dried and ground | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Sea algae (Ascophyllum nodosum) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Cod oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Herbs - dried and ground (stinging nettles, horsetail, dand… | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2% |
| Linseeds | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Moor (mineral clay) | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 27% and carbs about 51%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 24% | 27% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 9.6% | 11% |
| Carbohydrate | ~46% | ~51% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 3.3% | 3.7% |
| 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 30
The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3 of 20).
How much meat?
9.9 / 45 points- Meat on the label8.8 / 35 points
Meat is named but the label doesn’t say how much, so a quarter of the points.
- Protein level1.1 / 10 points
Protein is 26.7% 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% 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?
12 / 15 points- How the meat is listed12 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% 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 51% to 33% by dry weight, and protein is about 39%.
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 25 ingredients. 8 are not in our ingredient database yet.
25 ingredients with nothing flagged
Algae, apples, biotin (vitamin H/B7), choline chloride, folic acid (folate), hemp seed oil, herbs, linseed (flaxseed), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), potato, rapeseed oil, 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, biotin (vitamin H/B7), choline chloride, folic acid (folate), herbs, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), rapeseed oil, 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, herbs, linseed (flaxseed), potato, rapeseed oil
- 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
- PMC13308462Hemp seed oil
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Hemp seed oil
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
8 not in our ingredient database yet
Beta vulgaris, cod oil, dried and ground, iberico pig meat, moor, pro-vitamins & similar effective substances:, redcurrant dried and ground, vegetable mixture - 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 |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 29 to 33 points higher at the same price or less.

- Carbs
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- To feed
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- about 33% this food about 51%
- To feed
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- about 26% this food about 51%
- To feed
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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).
Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0
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