IAMS Small & Medium Breed Adult Dry Dog Food Lamb

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IAMS Small & Medium Breed Adult Dry Dog Food Lamb

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
33/ 100
WeakTop 42% 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% (including chicken 18%), maize, maize grits, barley, animal fat… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
34.1%
Protein, dry weight
29%
Carbs, dry weight
~45%
kcal/100 g
379

Ingredients

Listed first: Dried chicken and turkey. 34.1% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 34.1%
  • Plants 2.9%
  • Other 0.6%
  • No amount given 62.4%

Dried chicken and turkey 30% (including chicken 18%), maize, maize grits, barley, animal fat, lamb (4.1%), sorghum, dried beet pulp (2.9%), chicken gravy, minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate (0.38%)), fructooligosaccharides (0.21%), brewer's dried yeast

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Vitamins/KG: vitamin A: 49050IU, vitamin C: 61mg, vitamin D3: 1828IU, vitamin E: 151mg. Trace Elements: cupric sulphate pentahydrate (copper): 13mg, potassium iodide (iodine): 2.6mg, ferrous sulphate monohydrate (iron): 70mg, manganous sulphate monohydrate (manganese): 40mg, zinc oxide (zinc): 145mg, sodium selenite (selenium): 0.08mg. Supplemented levels added at time of manufacture

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Dried chicken and turkey 30%”. 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% (including chicken 18%)Named meat30%
maizeGrainNot given
maize gritsGrainNot given
barleyGrainNot given
animal fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
lamb (4.1%)Named meat4.1%
sorghumGrainNot given
dried beet pulp (2.9%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2.9%
chicken gravyFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate (0.38%))Other0.4%
fructooligosaccharides (0.21%)Other0.2%
brewer's dried yeastOtherNot given

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Nutrition

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

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein26%29%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat15%17%
Carbohydrate~40%~45%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.1%2.3%
Ash6.7%7.4%
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.

Energy379 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 33

The kind of meat scored best (8.8 of 15). Starch scored lowest (5.1 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    13.4 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label11.9 / 35 points

      34.1% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.5 / 10 points

      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?

    5.1 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 44.7% 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?

    8.8 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed8.8 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as dried and fresh, which earns 74% 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 42% of dry foods. 36 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 45% to 27% by dry weight, and protein is about 41%.

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 22 ingredients.

22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Animal fats, barley, beet pulp, broth (meat stock), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), lamb, maize (corn), minerals, poultry, sorghum, tocopherols (vitamin E), 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

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home2kg · £7.69 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£7.69£3.85/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£7.69£3.85/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£6.92£3.46/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£6.92£3.46/kg

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 16 to 27 points higher and cost up to 22% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78% this food 34.1%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 45%
To feed
22% more per 1,000 kcal

+27 pointsCompare

Meat
73% this food 34.1%
Carbs
about 24% this food about 45%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+24 pointsCompare

Meat
59% this food 34.1%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 45%
To feed
57% less per 1,000 kcal

+16 pointsCompare

Meat
68% this food 34.1%
Carbs
about 43% this food about 45%
To feed
21% more per 1,000 kcal

+16 pointsCompare

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: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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