Growing Paws Premium Turkey & Veg (Grain Free) Dog Food

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Growing Paws Premium Turkey & Veg (Grain Free) Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-free
33/ 100
WeakTop 42% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

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.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
ThistleOtherNot given
Green- Lipped MusselNamed meatNot given
Yucca SchidigeraOtherNot given
RosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
BlackcurrantVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
PomegranateOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 44%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein25%28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat14%16%
Carbohydrate~40%~44%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash8%8.9%
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.

Energy347 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 33

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). Meat scored lowest (10.1 of 45).

  1. 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%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.2 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 44.4% 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?

    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

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 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
3 ingredients with nothing flagged

Blackcurrant, pomegranate extract, rosemary

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

Sources for these ingredients
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.

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 26 to 45 points higher.

Compare side by side →

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Carbs
about 22% this food about 44%

+30 pointsCompare

Carbs
about 8% this food about 44%

+27 pointsCompare

Carbs
about 33% this food about 44%

+26 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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