IAMS Advanced Nutrition Puppy & Junior Small & Medium Dog - Chicken

4 prices from Zooplus UK

IAMS Advanced Nutrition Puppy & Junior Small & Medium Dog - Chicken

DryCompletePuppyContains grainFish oil
37/ 100
WeakTop 28% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: Dried chicken and turkey (30%, of which 18% chicken), barley, maize, fresh chicken (10%), pork fat… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
40%
Protein, dry weight
31%
Carbs, dry weight
~40%
kcal/100 g
369

Ingredients

Listed first: Dried chicken and turkey. 40% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 40%
  • Plants 2.5%
  • Other 0.2%
  • No amount given 57.3%

Dried chicken and turkey (30%, of which 18% chicken), barley, maize, fresh chicken (10%), pork fat, rice, dried sugar beet pulp (2.5%), chicken sauce, fish oil, sunflower oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (0.2%), dried brewer's yeast, minerals

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (23,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1100 IU), vitamin E (135mg), copper [as copper sulphate pentahydrate] (13mg), iodine [as potassium iodide] (2.6mg), iron [as iron(II) sulphate monohydrate] (69mg), manganese [as manganese sulphate monohydrate] (40mg), zinc [as zinc oxide] (115mg), selenium [as sodium selenite] (0.08mg).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Dried chicken and turkey”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Dried chicken and turkey (30%, of which 18% chicken)Named meat30%
barleyGrainNot given
maizeGrainNot given
fresh chicken (10%)Named meat10%
pork fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
riceGrainNot given
dried sugar beet pulp (2.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2.5%
chicken sauceFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
fish oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
sunflower oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
fructo-oligosaccharides (0.2%)Other0.2%
dried brewer's yeastOtherNot given
minerals.OtherNot given

Read automatically from the label. Spotted a misreading? Tell us

Nutrition

Protein 31% and carbs about 40%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein28%31%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat17%19%
Carbohydrate~36%~40%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.3%2.6%
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.

Energy369 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 37

The kind of meat scored best (9.3 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    15.9 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label14 / 35 points

      40% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.9 / 10 points

      Protein is 31.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    6.6 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 40.2% 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?

    9.3 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.3 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as dried and fresh, which earns 78% 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 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

Top 28% of dry foods. 37 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 40% to 22% by dry weight, and protein is about 37%.

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

Nothing flagged in 21 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.

21 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, chicken, fish oil, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), maize (corn), minerals, poultry, rice, sunflower oil, tocopherols (vitamin E), 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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Chicken sauce

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: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg · £56.99 up 1% since 10 AugEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£56.99£2.37/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK12kg · £29.29 up 1% since 10 Aug12kg£29.29£2.44/kgVisit
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 3kg · £18.59 up 5% since 10 AugEconomy Pack: 2 x 3kg£18.59£3.10/kgVisit
Zooplus UK3kg · £9.39 up 4% since 10 Aug3kg£9.39£3.13/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Zooplus UK up 5%.

Show the chart
View the readings as a table
Every reading we have, newest first
DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK12kg£29.29£2.44/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK3kg£9.39£3.13/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£56.99£2.37/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 3kg£18.59£3.10/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK12kg£29.19£2.43/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK3kg£9.19£3.06/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£56.79£2.37/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 3kg£18.19£3.03/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK12kg£28.99£2.42/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK3kg£8.99£3.00/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£56.39£2.35/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 3kg£17.69£2.95/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 10 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
57% this food 40%
Carbs
about 36% this food about 40%
To feed
29% less per 1,000 kcal

+10 points

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Matches the maker’s own page.

Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

Report a mistake

Tell us about your dog

Saved only in this browser. Your dog’s details are never sent to us or to any retailer.

Picking a breed suggests a typical adult weight; you can still adjust it below.
What do they eat?Pick the types to look at. Leave blank to see every type.
Anything to leave out?Checked against the whole ingredient list.
What matters most?Foods the maker made for it come first.