Gentle Original

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Gentle Original

DryCompleteAll agesContains grainFish oil
33/ 100
WeakTop 42% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • About 47% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Dried Ground Chicken Meat (28%), Brown Rice (thermally pre-treated)(28%), Dried Ground Duck Meat (9%), Herring Oil (6.5%)… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
37.5%
Protein, dry weight
30%
Carbs, dry weight
~47%
kcal/100 g
335

Ingredients

Listed first: Dried Ground Chicken Meat. 37.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 37.5%
  • Grain 38%
  • Plants 7.5%
  • Other 16.4%
  • No amount given 1.1%

Dried Ground Chicken Meat (28%), Brown Rice (thermally pre-treated)(28%), Dried Ground Duck Meat (9%), Herring Oil (6.5%), Maize Germ (5%), Rice Germ (5%), Rapeseed Oil (3%), Linseed Oil (3%), Beet Vulgaris (3%), Sea Algae (2%), Dried Vegetable Mixture (parsnip, chard, celery, chicory, parsley roots) (1.5%), Dried Herb Mixture (stinging nettle, fennel, caraway, chamomile) (1%), Dried Egg Yolk (1%), Yucca Schidigera (dried and ground) (1%), Silica (0.8%), Green Mineral Clay (0.6%), Green Lipped Mussel Meat (0.5%)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

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

Additives

Vitamins, Pro-Vitamins & Similar: /kg Vitamin A 10.000IU, Vitamin D3 1.000IU, Vitamin E 210mg, Vitamin B1 3.5mg, Vitamin B2 (as Riboflavin) 7.0mg, Vitamin B6 (as Pyridoxin Hydrochloride) 4.2mg, Vitamin B12 (as Cyanocobalamin) 42 µg, Biotin 210 µg, Folic Acid 0.35mg, Niacin 21mg, Vitamin C 140mg, Calcium-D-Pantothenate 7mg, 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) 0.3mg, Selenium (as Sodium senenite) 150mcg

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Dried Ground Chicken Meat”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Dried Ground Chicken Meat (28%)Named meat28%
Brown Rice (thermally pre-treated)(28%)Grain28%
Dried Ground Duck Meat (9%)Named meat9%
Herring Oil (6.5%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient6.5%
Maize Germ (5%)Grain5%
Rice Germ (5%)Grain5%
Rapeseed Oil (3%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient3%
Linseed Oil (3%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient3%
Beet Vulgaris (3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
Sea Algae (2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2%
Dried Vegetable Mixture (parsnip, chard, celery, chicory, p…Vegetable, fruit or plant1.5%
Dried Herb Mixture (stinging nettle, fennel, caraway, chamo…Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Dried Egg Yolk (1%)Other1%
Yucca Schidigera (dried and ground) (1%)Other1%
Silica (0.8%)Other0.8%
Green Mineral Clay (0.6%)Other0.6%
Green Lipped Mussel Meat (0.5%)Named meat0.5%

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Nutrition

Protein 30% and carbs about 47%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein26.8%30%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat10.8%12%
Carbohydrate~43%~47%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash6.8%7.6%
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.

Energy335 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 33

The kind of meat scored best (8.4 of 15). Starch scored lowest (4.2 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    14.7 / 45
    • Meat on the label13.1 / 35

      37.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.6 / 10

      Protein is 29.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    4.2 / 20

    About 47.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.4 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8.4 / 12

      The label lists the meat as dried and fresh, which earns 70% 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 42% of dry foods. 36 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 47% to 30% by dry weight, and protein is about 41%.

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

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 30 flagged nothing.

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

Algae, beetroot, biotin (vitamin H/B7), chicken, choline chloride, duck, egg, fish oil, folic acid (folate), green-lipped mussel, herbs, linseed oil, maize (corn), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), rapeseed oil, rice, 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
4 not in our ingredient database yet

Dried vegetable mixture, green mineral clay, pro-vitamins & similar:, silica

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 £7.10/kg at Gentle Dog Food.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Gentle Dog Food5kg · £35.50Stock not confirmed5kg£35.50£7.10/kgVisit

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 26 to 30 points higher and cost up to 20% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
about 26% this food about 47%
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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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