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Growing Paws Premium Turkey & Veg (Grain Free) Dog Food
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
- Fresh meat, named by animal
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not given
First ingredients: Thistle, Green- Lipped Mussel, Yucca Schidigera, Rosemary, Blackcurrant… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 28%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~44%
- kcal/100 g
- 347
Ingredients
Listed first: Thistle. The label gives no meat figure.
Thistle, Green- Lipped Mussel, Yucca Schidigera, Rosemary, Blackcurrant, Pomegranate
From the maker’s website, checked 4 Oct 2026.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Thistle”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Thistle | Other | Not given |
| Green- Lipped Mussel | Named meat | Not given |
| Yucca Schidigera | Other | Not given |
| Rosemary | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Blackcurrant | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Pomegranate | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 28% and carbs about 44%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 25% | 28% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 14% | 16% |
| Carbohydrate | ~40% | ~44% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 3% | 3.3% |
| Ash | 8% | 8.9% |
| 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 33
The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). Meat scored lowest (10.1 of 45).
How much meat?
10.1 / 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 level1.3 / 10 points
Protein is 27.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.2 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 44.4% 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 44% 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. 3 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 3 nothing flagged
- 2 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.
3 ingredients with nothing flagged
Blackcurrant, pomegranate extract, rosemary
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Blackcurrant, pomegranate extract, rosemary
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Blackcurrant, pomegranate extract
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlRosemary
- FSA register of feed additives (GB)Rosemary
2 not in our ingredient database yet
Green- lipped mussel, thistle
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.
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Growing PawsSingle pack · £47.00 | Single pack | £47.00 | Not given | Visit |
Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Growing Paws | Single pack | £47.00 | Not given |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Growing Paws | Single pack | £47.00 | Not given |
Your dog
Grams a day for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 26 to 45 points higher.

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- about 8% this food about 44%
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- about 33% this food about 44%
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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 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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