

2 prices from Zooplus UK
Good points
- 50% meat
- Low starch, about 7% carbs
- No ingredient deductions
First ingredients: 50% beef (hearts, meat, liver, lung, tripe), 33.2% broth, 5% broccoli, 5% potatoes, 5% papaya… All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 50%
- Protein, dry weight
- 43%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~7%
- kcal/100 g
- 106
Ingredients
Listed first: Beef. 50% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 50%
- Plants 10%
- Other 40%
50% beef (hearts, meat, liver, lung, tripe), 33.2% broth, 5% broccoli, 5% potatoes, 5% papaya, 1% minerals, 0.6% salmon oil, 0.1% parsley, 0.1% green-lipped mussel extract
Meat named animal protein
Additives
per kg: Nutritional additives: vitamin D3 200 IU, zinc (zinc sulphate monohydrate) 25mg, manganese (manganous sulphate monohydrate) 1.4mg.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “50% beef”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| 50% beef (hearts, meat, liver, lung, tripe) | Named meat | 50% |
| 33.2% broth | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 33.2% |
| 5% broccoli | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 5% |
| 5% potatoes | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 5% |
| 5% papaya | Other | 5% |
| 1% minerals | Other | 1% |
| 0.6% salmon oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 0.6% |
| 0.1% parsley | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.1% |
| 0.1% green-lipped mussel extract | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 0.1% |
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Nutrition
Protein 43% and carbs about 7%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 9% | 43% |
| within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 7.8% | 37% |
| Carbohydrate | ~1.5% | ~7.1% |
| below the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.7% | 3.3% |
| Ash | 2% | 9.5% |
| Moisture | 79% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.
Why it scores 61
The kind of meat scored best (15 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).
How much meat?
21.3 / 45 points- Meat on the label17.5 / 35 points
50% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level3.8 / 10 points
Protein is 42.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
17.6 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 7.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
8 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.
What kind of meat?
15 / 15 points- How the meat is listed12 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.
- Organ meat3 / 3 points
Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.
No ingredient deductions.
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other wet foods
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 →Ingredient notes
1 noted, no points taken: parsley. 9 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 9 nothing flagged
- 1 not in our ingredient database yet
- ParsleyNoted, no points takenFeed material (vegetable)
Why it’s noted and sources
Only large amounts cause problems (sun sensitivity); the small amounts used in food aren't a concern.
9 ingredients with nothing flagged
Beef, broccoli, broth (meat stock), minerals, potato, salmon oil
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: manganese, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Beef, broccoli, broth (meat stock), minerals, potato, salmon oil
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Broccoli, manganese, zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Papaya
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
Sold in multipacks. Prices are for the whole pack.
Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Zooplus UK | 6 x 400g | £8.49 | £3.54/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Zooplus UK | 6 x 800g | £13.49 | £2.81/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Zooplus UK | 6 x 400g | £8.49 | £3.54/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Zooplus UK | 6 x 800g | £13.49 | £2.81/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Zooplus UK | 6 x 400g | £8.49 | £3.54/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Zooplus UK | 6 x 800g | £13.49 | £2.81/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
3 wet foods score 5 to 10 points higher and cost up to 15% more.

- Meat
- 70% this food 50%
- Carbs
- about 2% this food about 7%
- To feed
- 10% less per 1,000 kcal
+10 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 80% this food 50%
- Carbs
- about 11% this food about 7%
- To feed
- 15% more per 1,000 kcal
+7 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 68% this food 50%
- Carbs
- about 10% this food about 7%
- To feed
- 14% more per 1,000 kcal
+5 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 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.
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