Markus Mühle Grass-fed Lamb (cold-pressed)

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Markus Mühle Grass-fed Lamb (cold-pressed)

DryCompleteAdultContains grainGrass-fedFish oil
30/ 100
WeakTied 569th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Cold-pressed, not extruded
  • About 49% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Ground dried lamb (20%), ground brown wholegrain rice, mixed vegetables [peas, beetroot, parsnips, beet pulp] (18%)… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
20%
Protein, dry weight
28%
Carbs, dry weight
~49%
kcal/100 g
328

Ingredients

Listed first: Ground dried lamb. 20% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 20%
  • Grain 15%
  • Plants 18%
  • Other 4.5%
  • No amount given 42.5%

Ground dried lamb (20%), ground brown wholegrain rice, mixed vegetables [peas, beetroot, parsnips, beet pulp] (18%), ground millet (15%), rice germ, dried and ground herb mixture, linseed, algae, white fish oil, milk thistle seed, cold-pressed hemp oil (4.5%), gelatine, fennel seeds, dried and ground blueberries, powdered egg yolk, sicileous earth, mussel meat extract from Perna canaliculus, green mineral earth, dried and ground Yucca schidigera

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (10,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1000 IU), vitamin E (200mg), vitamin B1 [thiamine mono-nitrate] (3.5mg), vitamin B2 [riboflavin] (7mg), vitamin B6 [pyridoxine hydrochloride] (4.2mg), vitamin B12 (42µg), biotin (210µg), folic acid (0.25mg), niacin (21mg), vitamin C [L-ascorbic acid] (140mg), pantothenic acid [calcium-D-pantothenate] (8mg), choline chloride (1500mg), manganese (48mg), copper (10mg), zinc (120mg), iron (200mg).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Ground dried lamb”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Ground dried lamb (20%)Named meat20%
ground brown wholegrain riceGrainNot given
mixed vegetables [peas, beetroot, parsnips, beet pulp] (18%)Vegetable, fruit or plant18%
ground millet (15%)Grain15%
rice germGrainNot given
dried and ground herb mixtureVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
algaeVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
white fish oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
milk thistle seedOtherNot given
cold-pressed hemp oil (4.5%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient4.5%
gelatineOtherNot given
fennel seedsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried and ground blueberriesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
powdered egg yolkOtherNot given
sicileous earthOtherNot given
mussel meat extract from Perna canaliculusNamed meatNot given
green mineral earthOtherNot given
dried and ground Yucca schidigera.OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 49%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein25.2%28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat10.1%11%
Carbohydrate~44%~49%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.2%3.6%
Ash7.5%8.3%
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.

Energy328 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 30

The kind of meat scored best (8.8 of 15). Meat scored lowest (8.3 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    8.3 / 45
    • Meat on the label7 / 35

      20% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.3 / 10

      Protein is 28% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    3.7 / 20

    About 48.9% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    10 / 20

    Cold-pressed: 10 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

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

      The label lists the meat as dried and fresh, which earns 73% 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

      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

Tied 569th of 1,171 dry foods. 43 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 49% to 31% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.

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. 34 flagged nothing.

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

Algae, beet pulp, beetroot, biotin (vitamin H/B7), blueberries, choline chloride, egg, fennel, fish oil, folic acid (folate), gelatine (hydrolysed), hemp seed oil, herbs, lamb, linseed (flaxseed), milk thistle, millet, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), parsnip, rice, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetables, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iron, manganese, 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

Green mineral earth, mussel meat extract from perna canaliculus, sicileous earth

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. Down 5% since 10 Aug.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg · £121.99 down 5% since 10 AugEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£121.99£4.07/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK15kg · £61.89 down 4% since 10 Aug15kg£61.89£4.13/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK15kg£61.89£4.13/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£121.99£4.07/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK15kg£61.89£4.13/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£121.99£4.07/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK15kg£64.79£4.32/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 15kg£127.99£4.27/kg

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

Sources

Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.

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

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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