Happy Dog Professional Light Calorie Control

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Happy Dog Professional Light Calorie Control

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
28/ 100
WeakTied 640th 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 50% carbs (dry weight)
  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Animal proteins * (16% poultry, 4% lamb), maize, maize flour, rice flour, barley… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
25%
Protein, dry weight
28%
Carbs, dry weight
~50%
kcal/100 g
321

Ingredients

Listed first: Animal proteins. 25% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 25%
  • Other 0.3%
  • No amount given 74.8%

Animal proteins * (16% poultry, 4% lamb), maize, maize flour, rice flour, barley, lignocellulose, fish meal (5%, of which 50% salmon meal), greaves, liver hydrolyzate, beet molasses escalope * (sugar removed), poultry fat, apple pomace *, potassium chloride , Sunflower oil, yeast *, sodium chloride, sea algae *, linseed (0.15%), dried whole egg (0.1%), rapeseed oil, mussel meat * (0.02%), yeast * (extracted), milk thistle, artichoke, dandelion, Ginger (0.013%), 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.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Animal proteins * (16% poultry, 4% lamb)Named meat20%
maizeGrainNot given
maize flourGrainNot given
rice flourGrainNot given
barleyGrainNot given
lignocelluloseOtherNot given
fish meal (5%, of which 50% salmon meal)Named meat5%
greavesOtherNot given
liver hydrolyzateOrgan meatNot given
beet molasses escalope * (sugar removed)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
poultry fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
apple pomace *Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
potassium chlorideOtherNot given
Sunflower oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
yeast *OtherNot given
sodium chlorideOtherNot given
sea algae *Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseed (0.15%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%
dried whole egg (0.1%)Other0.1%
rapeseed oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 50%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein25.5%28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat7%7.8%
Carbohydrate~45%~50%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre6%6.7%
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.

Energy321 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 28

The kind of meat scored best (10.1 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3.3 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    10.2 / 45
    • Meat on the label8.8 / 35

      25% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.4 / 10

      Protein is 28.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    3.3 / 20

    About 50% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.

  4. What kind of meat?

    10.1 / 15
    • How the meat is listed7.1 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh, meal and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 59% 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 640th of 1,171 dry foods. 29 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 50% to 32% 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: chamomile. 45 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 45 nothing flagged
  • 6 not in our ingredient database yet
  • ChamomileNoted, no points taken
    Botanical / flavouring

    Plant extras like this are usually added in tiny amounts, so points are taken only when the label declares 1% or more.

    Why it’s noted and sources

    The ASPCA lists chamomile as toxic to dogs, with stomach upset and allergic reactions, and warns that long-term use can cause bleeding problems. The amounts in dog food are small; we flag it as a caution.

    Sources
45 ingredients with nothing flagged

Algae, animal fats, antioxidants, apples, barley, beet pulp, biotin (vitamin H/B7), choline chloride, dandelion root, egg, fish, ginger, lignocellulose, linseed (flaxseed), liver (animal organ), 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), 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
6 not in our ingredient database yet

Artichoke, birch leaves, coriander, 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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Happy Dog UK12kg · £40.9912kg£40.99£3.42/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK12kg£40.99£3.42/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK12kg£40.99£3.42/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 21 to 32 points higher and cost up to 20% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78% this food 25%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 50%
To feed
17% more per 1,000 kcal

+32 pointsCompare

Meat
74% this food 25%
Carbs
about 27% this food about 50%
To feed
20% more per 1,000 kcal

+29 pointsCompare

Meat
73% this food 25%
Carbs
about 24% this food about 50%
To feed
3% less per 1,000 kcal

+29 pointsCompare

Meat
59% this food 25%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 50%
To feed
59% less per 1,000 kcal

+21 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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