Nature's Variety Dog Food Meat Boost, Free Range Chicken

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFree-range
44/ 100
WeakTop 13% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

Good points

  • 53% meat
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Deboned Free Range Chicken Meat (28%), Dried Chicken Protein (21%), Dried Peas (11%), Dried Chickpeas (5%), Poultry Fat (5%)… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
53%
Protein, dry weight
34%
Carbs, dry weight
~31%
kcal/100 g
367

Ingredients

Listed first: Deboned Free Range Chicken Meat. 53% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 53%
  • Plants 28%
  • Other 10%
  • No amount given 9%

Deboned Free Range Chicken Meat (28%), Dried Chicken Protein (21%), Dried Peas (11%), Dried Chickpeas (5%), Poultry Fat (5%), Freeze Dried Free Range Chicken (4%), Deboned (2%), Dried Sweet Potato (4%), Protein Hydrolysate (3%), Pea Starch, Potato Starch, Pea Fibre, Dried Chicory Root, Dried Pumpkinseed, Minerals, Dried Carrot, Fresh Carrot (4%), Dried Broccoli, Fresh Broccoli (4%), Dried Apple, Fresh Apple (2%), Dried Kelp, Dried Rosemary

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamin A, Vitamin D3, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Iron(Ii) Sulphate Monohydrate, Potassium Iodide, Copper(Ii) Sulphate Pentahydrate, Manganous Sulphate Monohydrate, Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate, Sodium Selenite

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Deboned Free Range Chicken Meat”. 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
Deboned Free Range Chicken Meat (28%)Named meat28%
Dried Chicken Protein (21%)Named meat21%
Dried Peas (11%)Vegetable, fruit or plant11%
Dried Chickpeas (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
Poultry Fat (5%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient5%
Freeze Dried Free Range Chicken (4%)Named meat4%
Deboned (2%)Other2%
Dried Sweet Potato (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Protein Hydrolysate (3%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient3%
Pea StarchVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Potato StarchVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Pea FibreVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dried Chicory RootVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Dried PumpkinseedOtherNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
Dried CarrotVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Fresh Carrot (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Dried BroccoliVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Fresh Broccoli (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Dried AppleVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 34% and carbs about 31%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein31%34%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat19%21%
Carbohydrate~28%~31%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre4.4%4.9%
Ash8%8.9%
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.

Energy367 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 44

The kind of meat scored best (9.4 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    21 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label18.6 / 35 points

      53% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.4 / 10 points

      Protein is 34.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    9.8 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 30.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.4 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.4 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh, meal and dried, which earns 78% 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 13% of dry foods. 17 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 31% to 20% by dry weight, and protein is about 44%.

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: hydrolysed proteins. 24 flagged nothing.

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

Apples, broccoli, carrot, chicken, chickpeas, chicory root extract, minerals, pea fibre, peas, poultry fat, rosemary, seaweed, starch, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

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

Deboned, dried pumpkinseed, freeze dried free range chicken

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

Grams a day for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 15 to 34 points higher.

Compare side by side →
Meat
100% this food 53%

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Meat
78.5% this food 53%
Carbs
about 22% this food about 31%

+19 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 53%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 31%

+16 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 53%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 31%

+15 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.

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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