Happy Dog Active Dog Dry Food (Sport Adult)

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Happy Dog Active Dog Dry Food (Sport Adult)

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
31/ 100
WeakTop 49% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Animal proteins * (17.5% poultry, 4% lamb), maize flour, maize, poultry fat, rice flour… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
25.5%
Protein, dry weight
31%
Carbs, dry weight
~41%
kcal/100 g
387

Ingredients

Listed first: Animal proteins. 25.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 25.5%
  • Other 0.3%
  • No amount given 74.3%

Animal proteins * (17.5% poultry, 4% lamb), maize flour, maize, poultry fat, rice flour, barley, hemoglobin *, fish meal (4%, of which 50% salmon meal), greaves, liver hydrolysate, sunflower oil, beet molasses pulp * (desugared) , Apple pomace *, rapeseed oil, potassium chloride, yeast *, sodium chloride, seaweed *, flaxseed (0.15%), dried whole egg (0.1%), mussel meat * (0.02%), yeast * (extracted), milk thistle, artichoke , Dandelion, ginger (0.012%), birch leaves, nettle, chamomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, licorice root, thyme, (total dry herbs: 0.15%); *) dried

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

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

Additives

Vitamins / kg: vitamin A (3a672a) 12000 IU, vitamin D3 (3a671) 1000 IU, vitamin E (3a700) 75 mg, vitamin B1 (3a821) 4 mg, vitamin B2 (3a825ii) 6 mg, vitamin B6 (3a831) 4 mg, biotin (3a880) 575 mcg, calcium D-pantothenate (3a841) 10 mg, niacin (3a314) 40 mg, vitamin B12 70 mcg, choline chloride (3a890) 60 mg, L - carnitine (3a910) 200 mg. Trace elements / kg: iron (as 3b103, 3b106) 105 mg, copper (as 3b405, 3b406) 10 mg, zinc (as 3b603, 3b606, 3b607) 105 mg, manganese (as 3b502, 3b504) 25 mg, iodine (as 3b202) 2 mg, selenium (as 3b801, 3b8.12) 0.15 mg. Antioxidants, tocopherol extracts from vegetable oils 1b306 (i).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Animal proteins *”. 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
Animal proteins * (17.5% poultry, 4% lamb)Named meat21.5%
maize flourGrainNot given
maizeGrainNot given
poultry fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
rice flourGrainNot given
barleyGrainNot given
hemoglobin *OtherNot given
fish meal (4%, of which 50% salmon meal)Named meat4%
greavesOtherNot given
liver hydrolysateFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
sunflower oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
beet molasses pulp * (desugared)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Apple pomace *Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
rapeseed oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
potassium chlorideOtherNot given
yeast *OtherNot given
sodium chlorideOtherNot given
seaweed *Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
flaxseed (0.15%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%
dried whole egg (0.1%)Other0.1%

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Nutrition

Protein 31% and carbs about 41%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein28%31%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat16%18%
Carbohydrate~37%~41%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.5%2.8%
Ash6.5%7.2%
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.

Energy387 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 31

The kind of meat scored best (9 of 15). Meat scored lowest (10.8 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    10.8 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label8.9 / 35 points

      25.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.9 / 10 points

      Protein is 31.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    6.3 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 41.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 75% 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 41% to 25% by dry weight, and protein is about 43%.

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

2 noted: liver and chamomile. 43 flagged nothing.

  • 2 noted
  • 43 nothing flagged
  • 7 not in our ingredient database yet
43 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, antioxidants, apples, barley, beet pulp, biotin (vitamin H/B7), choline chloride, dandelion root, egg, fish, ginger, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), milk thistle, nettle, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), potassium chloride, poultry fat, processed animal protein, rapeseed oil, rice, rosemary, sage, salt (sodium chloride), seaweed, sunflower oil, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamins, yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

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

Sources for these ingredients
7 not in our ingredient database yet

Artichoke, birch leaves, coriander, hemoglobin, L carnitine, licorice root, mussel meat

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: Happy Dog UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Happy Dog UK14kg · £41.8614kg£41.86£2.99/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Happy Dog UK14kg x 2 · £102.2914kg x 2£102.29£3.65/kgVisit
Happy Dog UK14kg · £53.9914kg£53.99£3.86/kgVisit
Happy Dog UK1kg · £8.991kg£8.99£8.99/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK14kg£41.86£2.99/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK14kg x 2£102.29£3.65/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK1kg£8.99£8.99/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK14kg£41.86£2.99/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK14kg x 2£102.29£3.65/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK1kg£8.99 (out of stock)£8.99/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 18 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
59% this food 25.5%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 41%
To feed
43% less per 1,000 kcal

+18 points

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: Happy Dog UK (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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