Happy Dog Professional Sensitive Grainfree 24 / 14

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Happy Dog Professional Sensitive Grainfree 24 / 14

DryCompleteAdultGrain-free
11/ 100
WeakTied 1,134th of 1,171 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

  • Meat amount not declared
  • About 48% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: derivatives of vegetable origin* (including potato flakes* (27 %), (apple pomace*), vegetables (potatoes* (29 %)), meat and… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
Not on label
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~48%
kcal/100 g
374

Ingredients

Listed first: “Derivatives of vegetable origin”. The label gives no meat figure.

derivatives of vegetable origin* (including potato flakes* (27 %), (apple pomace*), vegetables (potatoes* (29 %)), meat and animal derivatives* (including animal protein from poultry* (20 %)), oils and fats, fish and fish derivatives*, minerals, molluscs and crustaceans* (including mussel powder); *) dried

Meat animal not named

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

Additives

vitamins/kg: vitamin A 14000 IU, vitamin D3 810 IU. L-carnitine (3a910) 200 mg, taurine (3a370) 400 mg. Trace elements / kg: iron (3b103) 55 mg, copper (3b405) 12 mg, zinc (3b603) 70 mg, manganese (3b502) 14 mg, iodine (3b202) 1.5 mg, selenium (3b801) 0.2 mg. Amino acids / kg: methionine (3c301) 900 mg. Antioxidant, tocopherol-rich extracts from plant oils 1b306(i).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “derivatives of vegetable origin*”. 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
derivatives of vegetable origin* (including potato flakes* …A group name, not one ingredient27%

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Nutrition

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

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein24%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat14%16%
Carbohydrate~43%~48%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash6%6.7%
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.

Energy374 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 11

How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (0 of 15).

  1. How much meat?

    1.1 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label0 / 35 points

      No meat declared.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10 points

      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 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 47.8% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    0 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed0 / 12 points

      No meat on the label.

    • 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

Tied 1,134th of 1,171 dry foods. 12 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 29% 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: meat and animal derivatives. 16 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 16 nothing flagged
  • 3 not in our ingredient database yet
16 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, DL-methionine, minerals, oils and fats, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetables, vitamins

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

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: selenium

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

Sources for these ingredients
3 not in our ingredient database yet

Amino acids, fish and fish derivatives, molluscs and crustaceans

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 UK20 kg · £58.9920 kg£58.99£2.95/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Happy Dog UK20 kg£58.99£2.95/kg
28 Sep 2026Happy Dog UK20 kg£58.99£2.95/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 38 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Carbs
about 33% this food about 48%
To feed
45% less per 1,000 kcal

+38 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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