Happy Dog Ostrich Small Breed Dog Food (Mini Africa)

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Happy Dog Ostrich Small Breed Dog Food (Mini Africa)

DryCompleteAdultGrain-free
20/ 100
WeakTied 964th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • 16% meat
  • About 48% carbs (dry weight)
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Potatoes*, ostrich protein* (16 %), potato protein*, oils and fats, hydrolysed protein… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
16%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~48%
kcal/100 g
359

Ingredients

Listed first: Potatoes. 16% of the recipe is declared meat.

Potatoes*, ostrich protein* (16 %), potato protein*, oils and fats, hydrolysed protein, beet pulp* (desugared), apple pomace*, sodium chloride, yeasts* (extract) *dried

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

Additives

Vitamins / kg: vitamin A (3a672a) 12000 IU, vitamin D3 (3a671) 1200 IU, vitamin E (all rac-alpha-tocopheryl acetate 3a700) 75 mg, vitamin B1 (thiamine mononitrate 3a821) 4 mg, vitamin B2 (riboflavin) 6 mg, Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride 3a831) 4 mg, biotin (D (+) - biotin 3a880) 575 mcg, pantothenic acid (calcium D-pantothenate 3a841) 10 mg, niacin (3a314) 40 mg, vitamin B12 70 mcg, choline chloride (3a890) 60 mg, taurine (3a370) 500 mg, antioxidants, tocopherol extracts from vegetable oils 1b306 (i). Trace elements / kg: iron (E1, iron (II) sulfate; monohydrate 3b103) 105 mg, copper (E4, copper (II) sulfate pentahydrate 3b405) 12 mg, zinc (zinc oxide 3b603, amino acid zinc chelate; hydrate 3b606) 125 mg, manganese (E5, manganese (II) oxide 3b502) 25 mg, iodine (calcium iodate, anhydrous 3b202) 2 mg, selenium (E8, sodium selenite) 0.15 mg, amino acids / kg

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Potatoes*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
ostrich protein* (16%)Named meat16%
potato protein*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
oils and fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
hydrolysed proteinOtherNot given
beet pulp* (desugared)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
apple pomace*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
sodium chlorideOtherNot given
yeasts* (extract) *driedOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 48%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein24%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12%13%
Carbohydrate~43%~48%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.5%2.8%
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.

Energy359 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 20

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Meat scored lowest (6.7 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    6.7 / 45
    • Meat on the label5.6 / 35

      16% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10

      Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    4.1 / 20

    About 47.8% 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 / 15
    • How the meat is listed6 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal, which earns 50% 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

      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

Tied 964th of 1,171 dry foods. 22 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 48% to 30% 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.

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Ingredient notes

1 noted: hydrolysed proteins. 27 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 27 nothing flagged
  • 2 not in our ingredient database yet
27 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, apples, beet pulp, biotin (vitamin H/B7), choline chloride, niacin (vitamin B3), oils and fats, pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), potato, salt (sodium chloride), taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, 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
2 not in our ingredient database yet

Amino acids, ostrich protein

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 UK4kg x 2 · £59.034kg x 2£59.03£7.38/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Happy Dog UK4kg · £32.994kg£32.99£8.25/kgVisit
Happy Dog UK800g · £8.99800g£8.99£11.24/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK4kg£32.99£8.25/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK4kg x 2£59.03£7.38/kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK800g£8.99£11.24/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK4kg£32.99£8.25/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK4kg x 2£59.03£7.38/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK800g£8.99 (out of stock)£11.24/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 39 to 43 points higher and cost up to 24% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78.5% this food 16%
Carbs
about 22% this food about 48%
To feed
24% more per 1,000 kcal

+43 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 16%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 48%
To feed
40% less per 1,000 kcal

+40 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 16%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 48%
To feed
17% less per 1,000 kcal

+39 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 16%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 48%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+39 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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