K9 Optimum K9 Adult Grain Free Chicken Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil
37/ 100
WeakTop 28% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Chicken freshly prepared (20%), Chicken dried (19%), sweet potato, potato, Chicken fat… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
43%
Protein, dry weight
29%
Carbs, dry weight
~43%
kcal/100 g
352

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken freshly prepared. 43% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 43%
  • Other 1%
  • No amount given 56%

Chicken freshly prepared (20%), Chicken dried (19%), sweet potato, potato, Chicken fat, chicken gravy, salmon freshly prepared (4%), beet pulp, egg powder, brewer's yeast, Full fat linseed, potato protein, lucerne, salmon oil (1%), turmeric (1500mg/kg), marigold (source of lutein), mannan oligosaccharides (1650mg/kg), fructose oligosaccharides (400mg/kg), glucosamine (200mg/kg), methylsulphonylmethane (200mg/kg), yucca schidgera (200mg/kg), blackcurrant, NZ green lipped mussel (150mg/kg), rosemary, pomegranete

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamin A (retinyl acetate, 3a672a), vitamin D (cholecalciferol 38671), Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol, 38700), Camitine (3a910), Taurine (3a370), Iron (iron (II) sulphate monohydrate, 3b103), lodine (calcium iodate anhydrous, 3b202), Copper (copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate, 3b405), Manganese (manganese (II) oxide, 3b502), Zinc (zinc sulphate monohydrate, 3b605), Zinc (zinc chelate of glycine hydrate, 3b607), Selenium (sodium selenite, 3b801), Turmeric, Mannan oligosaccharides, Fructose oligosaccharides, Glucosamine, Methylsulphonylmethane, Yucca schidigera, NZ green lipped mussel

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken freshly prepared”. 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
Chicken freshly prepared (20%)Named meat20%
Chicken dried (19%)Named meat19%
sweet potatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
potatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Chicken fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
chicken gravyFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
salmon freshly prepared (4%)Named meat4%
beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
egg powderOtherNot given
brewer's yeastOtherNot given
Full fat linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
potato proteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
lucerneOtherNot given
salmon oil (1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
turmeric (1500mg/kg)Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
marigold (source of lutein)OtherNot given
mannan oligosaccharides (1650mg/kg)OtherNot given
fructose oligosaccharides (400mg/kg)OtherNot given
glucosamine (200mg/kg)OtherNot given
methylsulphonylmethane (200mg/kg)OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 29% and carbs about 43%, 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~38%~43%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.8%4.2%
Ash7%7.8%
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.

Energy352 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 37

The kind of meat scored best (10.4 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    16.6 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label15.1 / 35 points

      43% 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?

    5.8 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 42.5% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.

  4. What kind of meat?

    10.4 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed10.4 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 87% 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 Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 43% 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

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 32 flagged nothing.

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

Alfalfa, beet pulp, blackcurrant, broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, green-lipped mussel, linseed (flaxseed), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), marigold meal, MSM (methylsulfonylmethane), potato, poultry fat, rosemary, salmon, salmon oil, sweet potato, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), turmeric, vegetable protein extracts, yeast

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: 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
3 not in our ingredient database yet

Camitine (3a910), lodine (calcium iodate anhydrous, 3b202), pomegranete

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

Your dog

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 22 to 41 points higher.

Compare side by side →
Meat
100% this food 43%

+41 pointsCompare

Meat
78.5% this food 43%
Carbs
about 22% this food about 43%

+26 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 43%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 43%

+23 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 43%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 43%

+22 pointsCompare

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

Sources

Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.

Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.

Page we read, saved 10 Aug 2026: Jollyes.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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