Happy Dog Chicken & Trout XS Breed Food (Mini Japan)

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Happy Dog Chicken & Trout XS Breed Food (Mini Japan)

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
36/ 100
WeakTop 32% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Includes organ meat
  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Chicken meat* (22%), rice, rice flour, trout meal (7%), poultry fat… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
29%
Protein, dry weight
30%
Carbs, dry weight
~39%
kcal/100 g
353

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken meat. 29% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 29%
  • Plants 3.9%
  • Other 0.3%
  • No amount given 66.8%

Chicken meat* (22%), rice, rice flour, trout meal (7%), poultry fat, rice protein*, beet pulp* (desugared), linseed (2.6%), sunflower oil, apple pomace* (1.3%), hydrolysed liver, cellulose, fish hydrolysate*, potassium chloride, canola oil, maize, yeasts*, sodium chloride, seaweed* (0.27%), chicory powder, yeasts* (extract), yucca schidigera* (0.1%), mussel meat*, turmeric, milk thistle, artichoke, dandelion, ginger, birch leaves, stinging nettle, camomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, liquorice root, thyme, (total dried herbs: 0.16%); *) dried

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

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

Additives

Vitamins / kg: vitamin A (3a672a), vitamin D3 (3a671), Trace elements / kg: iron (iron(II) sulphate monohydrate 3b103), copper (copper(II) sulphate pentahydrate 3b405), zinc (zinc oxide 3b603, zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate 3b606,), manganese (manganese(II) oxide 3b502), iodine (calcium iodate, anhydrous 3b202), selenium (sodium selenite 3b801), Antioxidant; tocopherol-rich extracts from plant oils 1b306(i).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken meat*”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken meat* (22%)Named meat22%
riceGrainNot given
rice flourGrainNot given
trout meal (7%)Named meat7%
poultry fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
rice protein*GrainNot given
beet pulp* (desugared)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseed (2.6%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2.6%
sunflower oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
apple pomace* (1.3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1.3%
hydrolysed liverOrgan meatNot given
celluloseVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
fish hydrolysate*Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
potassium chlorideOtherNot given
canola oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
maizeGrainNot given
yeasts*OtherNot given
sodium chlorideOtherNot given
seaweed* (0.27%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.3%
chicory powderVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 30% and carbs about 39%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein27%30%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat16%18%
Carbohydrate~35%~39%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.5%3.9%
Ash8.5%9.4%
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 36

The kind of meat scored best (13.4 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    11.9 / 45
    • Meat on the label10.2 / 35

      29% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.7 / 10

      Protein is 30% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    7 / 20

    About 38.9% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    13.4 / 15
    • How the meat is listed10.4 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh, meal and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 86% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat3 / 3

      Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is 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 32% of dry foods. 53 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 39% to 25% by dry weight, and protein is about 42%.

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

3 noted: liver, chamomile and yucca extract. 36 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 36 nothing flagged
  • 5 not in our ingredient database yet
36 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, apples, beet pulp, cellulose, chicken, chicory root extract, dandelion root, fish, ginger, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), milk thistle, nettle, potassium chloride, poultry fat, rapeseed oil, rice, rosemary, sage, salt (sodium chloride), seaweed, sunflower oil, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), turmeric, vegetable protein extracts, vitamins, yeast

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: 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
5 not in our ingredient database yet

Artichoke, birch leaves, coriander, liquorice 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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Happy Dog UK1.3kg · £15.991.3kg£15.99£12.30/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK1.3kg£15.99£12.30/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK1.3kg£15.99£12.30/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 23 to 27 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78.5% this food 29%
Carbs
about 22% this food about 39%
To feed
27% less per 1,000 kcal

+27 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 29%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 39%
To feed
64% less per 1,000 kcal

+24 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 29%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 39%
To feed
42% less per 1,000 kcal

+23 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 29%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 39%
To feed
51% less per 1,000 kcal

+23 pointsCompare

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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