Growing Paws Premium Salmon & Potato (Grain Free) Dog Food

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Growing Paws Premium Salmon & Potato (Grain Free) Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil
31/ 100
WeakTop 49% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • One animal protein: fish
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • About 45% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Salmon (13% freshly prepared salmon, 13% salmon meal), Potato (26%), Peas (20%), Salmon Oil, Unmolassed Beet Pulp… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
26%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~45%
kcal/100 g
353

Ingredients

Listed first: Salmon. 26% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 26%
  • Plants 46%
  • No amount given 28%

Salmon (13% freshly prepared salmon, 13% salmon meal), Potato (26%), Peas (20%), Salmon Oil, Unmolassed Beet Pulp, Full Fat Linseed, Alfalfa, Seaweed, Carrot, Yeast, Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Mannan Oligosaccharides, Glucosamine, Green Lipped Mussel, Blackcurrant, Yucca Schidigera, Rosemary

Meat named animal protein

From the maker’s website, checked 4 Oct 2026.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Salmon”. 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
Salmon (13% freshly prepared salmon, 13% salmon meal)Named meat26%
Potato (26%)Vegetable, fruit or plant26%
Peas (20%)Vegetable, fruit or plant20%
Salmon OilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Unmolassed Beet PulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Full Fat LinseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
AlfalfaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
SeaweedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
CarrotVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
YeastOtherNot given
Dicalcium PhosphateOtherNot given
Sodium ChlorideOtherNot given
Mannan OligosaccharidesOtherNot given
GlucosamineOtherNot given
Green Lipped MusselNamed meatNot given
BlackcurrantVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Yucca SchidigeraOtherNot given
RosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 45%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein24%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat15%17%
Carbohydrate~41%~45%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.5%3.9%
Ash7%7.8%
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.

Energy353 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 31

The kind of meat scored best (9.8 of 15). Meat scored lowest (10.2 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    10.2 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label9.1 / 35 points

      26% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • 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%.

  2. How much starch?

    5 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 45% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

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

      The label lists the meat as fresh and 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 49% of dry foods. 48 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 45% to 28% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.

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. 16 flagged nothing.

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

Alfalfa, beet pulp, blackcurrant, carrot, glucosamine, green-lipped mussel, linseed (flaxseed), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), peas, potato, rosemary, salmon, salmon oil, salt (sodium chloride), seaweed, yeast

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Dicalcium phosphate

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: Growing Paws. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

One shop doesn’t say the pack weight, so we can’t compare its price.

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Growing PawsSingle pack · £47.00Single pack£47.00Not givenVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Growing PawsSingle pack£47.00Not given
28 Sep 2026Growing PawsSingle pack£47.00Not given

Your dog

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 28 to 47 points higher.

Compare side by side →
Meat
100% this food 26%

+47 pointsCompare

Meat
78.5% this food 26%
Carbs
about 22% this food about 45%

+32 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 26%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 45%

+29 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 26%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 45%

+28 pointsCompare

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

Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 4 Oct 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 4 Oct 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

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

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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