Happy Dog Junior Puppy Dry Food (Fit & Vital)

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Happy Dog Junior Puppy Dry Food (Fit & Vital)

DryCompletePuppyContains grain
26/ 100
WeakTied 699th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Includes organ meat
  • About 45% carbs (dry weight)
  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Poultry protein* (17%), rice flour, corn flour, lamb protein* (5%), poultry fat… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
27.1%
Protein, dry weight
29%
Carbs, dry weight
~45%
kcal/100 g
343

Ingredients

Listed first: Poultry protein. 27.1% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 27.1%
  • Other 0.4%
  • No amount given 72.6%

Poultry protein* (17%), rice flour, corn flour, lamb protein* (5%), poultry fat, greaves, fish meal (5%, of which 50% salmon meal), sunflower oil, beet molasses pulp* (desugared), hydrolysed liver, apple pomace*, cellulose, rapeseed oil, Potassium chloride, yeast*, sodium chloride, dried whole egg (0.2%), seaweed*, linseed (0.16%), psyllium husk, mussel meat* (0.05%), yucca schidigera*, yeast* (extracted), milk thistle, artichoke , dandelion, ginger (0.013%), birch leaves, nettle, chamomile, coriander, rosemary, sage, licorice 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) 17000 IU, vitamin D3 (3a671) 1000 IU, vitamin E (all rac-alpha-tocopheryl acetate 3a700) 125 mg, vitamin B1 (thiamine mononitrate 3a821) 4 mg, vitamin B2 (riboflavin 3a825ii) 4 mg, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride 3a831) 4 mg, biotin (3a880) 495 mcg, calcium D-pantothenate (3a841) 10 mg, niacin (3a314) 50 mg, vitamin B12 70 mcg, vitamin C (sodium calcium ascorbyl phosphate 3a312) 30 mg, choline chloride (3a890) 55 mg. Trace elements/kg: Iron (ferrous sulfate, monohydrate 3b103) 65 mg, copper (copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate 3b405) 14 mg, zinc (zinc oxide 3b603 100 mg, amino acid zinc chelate, hydrate 3b606 25mg) 125 mg, manganese (manganese (II) oxide 3b502) 30 mg, iodine (calcium iodate, anhydrous 3b202) 2.5 mg, selenium (sodium selenite 3b801) 0.2 mg. Antioxidants, tocopherol extracts from vegetable oils 1b306(i)

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Poultry protein*”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Poultry protein* (17%)Meat, animal not named17%
rice flourGrainNot given
corn flourGrainNot given
lamb protein* (5%)Named meat5%
poultry fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
greavesOtherNot given
fish meal (5%, of which 50% salmon meal)Named meat5%
sunflower oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
beet molasses pulp* (desugared)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
hydrolysed liverOrgan meatNot given
apple pomace*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
celluloseVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
rapeseed oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Potassium chlorideOtherNot given
yeast*OtherNot given
sodium chlorideOtherNot given
dried whole egg (0.2%)Other0.2%
seaweed*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseed (0.16%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%
psyllium huskVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 29% and carbs about 45%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein26%29%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat13%14%
Carbohydrate~41%~45%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash7.5%8.3%
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.

Energy343 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 26

The kind of meat scored best (6.9 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    11 / 45
    • Meat on the label9.5 / 35

      27.1% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.5 / 10

      Protein is 28.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    5 / 20

    About 45% 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?

    6.9 / 15
    • How the meat is listed3.9 / 12

      The label lists the meat as unnamed meal, meal, unnamed hydrolysed and fresh, which earns 33% 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

Tied 699th of 1,171 dry foods. 51 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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 45% to 25% by dry weight, and protein is about 36%.

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

3 noted: liver, chamomile and yucca extract. 45 flagged nothing.

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

Animal fats, antioxidants, apples, beet pulp, biotin (vitamin H/B7), cellulose, 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, psyllium, 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), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), 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
5 not in our ingredient database yet

Artichoke, birch leaves, coriander, 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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Happy Dog UK18kg · £51.9918kg£51.99£2.89/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Happy Dog UK10kg · £42.9910kg£42.99£4.30/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 UK10kg£42.99£4.30/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK18kg£51.99£2.89/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK1kg£8.99£8.99/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK10kg£42.99£4.30/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK18kg£51.99£2.89/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK1kg£8.99£8.99/kg

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 15 to 21 points higher and cost up to 24% more.

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Carbs
about 36% this food about 45%
To feed
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Carbs
about 43% this food about 45%
To feed
20% more per 1,000 kcal

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Carbs
about 42% this food about 45%
To feed
24% more per 1,000 kcal

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Price
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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 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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