Orijen Large Breed Puppy Dry Food with Chicken Turkey & Fish

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Orijen Large Breed Puppy Dry Food with Chicken Turkey & Fish

DryCompletePuppyGrain-freeFish oil
62/ 100

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 77.5% meat
  • Low starch, about 23% carbs
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Fresh chicken (21%), raw turkey (11%), fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (10%), raw whole hake (5%), raw whole herring (5%)… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
77.5%
Protein, dry weight
43%
Carbs, dry weight
~23%
kcal/100 g
376

Ingredients

Listed first: Fresh chicken. 77.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 77.5%
  • Other 7%
  • No amount given 15.5%

Fresh chicken (21%), raw turkey (11%), fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (10%), raw whole hake (5%), raw whole herring (5%), fresh eggs (5%), raw turkey liver (5%), dehydrated chicken (5%), dehydrated mackerel (5%), dehydrated sardine (4.5%), dehydrated herring (4%), whole red lentils, whole green lentils, whole peas, lentil fibre, whole chickpeas, whole pinto beans, pea starch, dehydrated turkey (2%), chicken fat (2%), whole navy beans, pollock oil (0.5%), dried kelp, fresh whole pumpkin, fresh whole butternut squash, fresh whole zucchini, fresh whole carrots, fresh whole apples, fresh whole pears, dried chicory root, fresh kale, fresh spinach, fresh beet greens, fresh turnip greens, whole cranberries, whole blueberries, whole saskatoon berries, turmeric, milk thistle, burdock root, lavender, marshmallow root, rosehips.

Meat named animal protein

Additives

3a370 Taurine: 400mg, 3b606 (Zinc: 105mg), 3b406 (Copper: 11mg), 3a821 Vitamin B1: 9.8mg, 3a700 Vitamin E: 120IU. Zootechnical additives: 4b1707 Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 10415 1x10^9 CFU. Rosemary extract: 80mg. Tocopherol extract from vegetable oils: 121mg, citric acid: 40mg.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Fresh chicken”. 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
Fresh chicken (21%)Named meat21%
raw turkey (11%)Named meat11%
fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (10%)Named meat10%
raw whole hake (5%)Named meat5%
raw whole herring (5%)Named meat5%
fresh eggs (5%)Other5%
raw turkey liver (5%)Named meat5%
dehydrated chicken (5%)Named meat5%
dehydrated mackerel (5%)Named meat5%
dehydrated sardine (4.5%)Named meat4.5%
dehydrated herring (4%)Named meat4%
whole red lentilsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole green lentilsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole peasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
lentil fibreVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole chickpeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole pinto beansVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
pea starchVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dehydrated turkey (2%)Named meat2%
chicken fat (2%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient2%

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Nutrition

Protein 43% and carbs about 23%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein38%43%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat16%18%
Carbohydrate~20%~23%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre6%6.8%
Ash8%9.1%
Moisture12%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.

Energy376 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 62

The kind of meat scored best (14 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    31 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label27.1 / 35 points

      77.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level3.9 / 10 points

      Protein is 43.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    12.4 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 22.7% 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?

    14 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed11 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 92% 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 dry foods

Top 1% of dry foods. 6 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 23% to 12% 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.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 39 ingredients. 2 are not in our ingredient database yet.

39 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, beetroot, blueberries, burdock root, carrot, chicken, chickpeas, chicory root extract, citric acid (E330), courgette, cranberries, egg, fish, fish oil, kale, lavender, lentil fibre, lentils, liver (animal organ), marshmallow root, milk thistle, navy beans, pear, peas, pinto beans, poultry fat, probiotic cultures, pumpkin, rosehips, seaweed, spinach, starch, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey, turmeric, vitamin B1 (thiamine)

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

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients
2 not in our ingredient database yet

Fresh turnip greens, whole saskatoon berries

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: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home11.4kg · £95.29 up 11% since 10 Aug11.4kg£95.29£8.36/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home6kg · £54.99 up 18% since 10 Aug6kg£54.99£9.16/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 18%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home11.4kg£95.29£8.36/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home6kg£54.99£9.16/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home11.4kg£85.76£7.52/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home6kg£49.49£8.25/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home11.4kg£85.76£7.52/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home6kg£46.74£7.79/kg

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Sources

Matches the maker’s own page.

Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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