K9 Optimum K9 Puppy Dry Food, Maxi, Chicken

1 price from Jollyes

K9 Optimum K9 Puppy Dry Food, Maxi, 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: Chicken dried (18.5%), Chicken (18%), Rice, Maize, Chicken gravy… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
40.7%
Protein, dry weight
31%
Carbs, dry weight
~43%
kcal/100 g
349

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken dried. 40.7% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 40.7%
  • Plants 1%
  • Other 1%
  • No amount given 57.3%

Chicken dried (18.5%), Chicken (18%), Rice, Maize, Chicken gravy, Salmon (4.2%), Chicken fat, Whole oats, Prairie meal, Salmon meal, Brewer’s yeast, Beet pulp, Full fat linseed (1%), Salmon oil (1%), Egg powder, Marine algae (source of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)), Minerals, Marigold (source of lutein), Rosemary, Pomegranate, Mannan oligosaccharides, Glucosamine, Nucleotides, Turmeric, Blackcurrant, Yucca schidigera, NZ green lipped mussel, Methylsulphonylmethane

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A (retinyl acetate, 3a672a) (22,000 IU/Kg), Vitamin D (cholecalciferol, 3a671) (1,700 IU/Kg), Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol, 3a700) (340mg/Kg), Taurine (3a370) (250mg/Kg), Iron (iron (II) sulphate monohydrate, 3b103) (22mg/Kg), Iodine (calcium iodate anhydrous, 3b202) (1.75mg/Kg), Copper (copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate, 3b405) (8mg/Kg), Manganese (manganese (II) oxide, 3b502) (47mg/Kg), Zinc (zinc sulphate monohydrate, 3b605) (115mg/Kg), Zinc (zinc chelate of glycine hydrate, 3b607) (33mg/Kg), Selenium (sodium selenite, 3b801) (0.1mg/Kg)

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken dried”. 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 dried (18.5%)Named meat18.5%
Chicken (18%)Named meat18%
RiceGrainNot given
MaizeGrainNot given
Chicken gravyFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Salmon (4.2%)Named meat4.2%
Chicken fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
Whole oatsGrainNot given
Prairie mealOtherNot given
Salmon mealNamed meatNot given
Brewer’s yeastOtherNot given
Beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Full fat linseed (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Salmon oil (1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
Egg powderOtherNot given
Marine algae (source of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA))Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
Marigold (source of lutein)OtherNot given
RosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
PomegranateOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 31% and carbs about 43%, 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
Fat13.5%15%
Carbohydrate~39%~43%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.6%2.9%
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.

Energy349 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 37

The kind of meat scored best (10.2 of 15). Starch scored lowest (5.6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    16.1 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label14.2 / 35 points

      40.7% 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?

    5.6 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 43.2% 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?

    10.2 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed10.2 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as dried, fresh and meal, which earns 85% 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 43% to 24% 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.

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Ingredient notes

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 35 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 35 nothing flagged
35 ingredients with nothing flagged

Algae, beet pulp, blackcurrant, broth (meat stock), chicken, egg, glucosamine, green-lipped mussel, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), marigold meal, minerals, MSM (methylsulfonylmethane), nucleotides, oats, pomegranate extract, poultry, poultry fat, rice, rosemary, salmon, salmon oil, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), turmeric, yeast

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

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)

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: Jollyes. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
JollyesK9 Puppy Maxi Dry Food Chicken 12kg · £19.00K9 Puppy Maxi Dry Food Chicken 12kg£19.00£1.58/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026JollyesK9 Puppy Maxi Dry Food Chicken 12kg£19.00£1.58/kg
27 Sep 2026JollyesK9 Puppy Maxi Dry Food Chicken 12kg£19.00£1.58/kg
10 Aug 2026JollyesK9 Puppy Maxi Dry Food Chicken 12kg£19.00 (out of stock)£1.58/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 40.7%
Carbs
about 36% this food about 43%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+10 points

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 4 Oct 2026: Jollyes.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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