

2 prices from Jollyes
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
- High protein, 43% dry weight
- Includes organ meat
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not given
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: Beef, wild boar, lamb, pork, beef liver… All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 43%
- Carbs, dry weight
- Not on label
- kcal/100 g
- Not on label
Ingredients
Listed first: Beef. The label gives no meat figure.
Beef, wild boar, lamb, pork, beef liver, beef meal, lamb meal, mackerel meal, herring meal, pork meal, whole red lentils, whole pinto beans, whole navy beans, whole green lentils, whole chickpeas, rosemary extract, whole herring, citric acid (preservative), pork liver, althea root, rosehips, juniper berries, beef fat, sarsaparilla root, natural pork flavor, turmeric, dried apple pomace, dried chicory root, pollock oil, pork kidney, beef kidney, beef tripe, vitamin E supplement, dried kelp, whole pumpkin, whole butternut squash, collard greens, whole apples, whole pears, zinc proteinate, mixed tocopherols (preservative), niacin, thiamine mononitrate, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, dried Bacillus coagulans fermentation product
Meat named animal protein
Additives
Vitamin E (750 IU/kg), Glucosamine (400 mg/kg)
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Beef”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Beef | Named meat | Not given |
| wild boar | Named meat | Not given |
| lamb | Named meat | Not given |
| pork | Named meat | Not given |
| beef liver | Named meat | Not given |
| beef meal | Named meat | Not given |
| lamb meal | Named meat | Not given |
| mackerel meal | Named meat | Not given |
| herring meal | Named meat | Not given |
| pork meal | Named meat | Not given |
| whole red lentils | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| whole pinto beans | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| whole navy beans | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| whole green lentils | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| whole chickpeas | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| rosemary extract | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| whole herring | Named meat | Not given |
| citric acid (preservative) | Other | Not given |
| pork liver | Named meat | Not given |
| althea root | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 43% with the water taken out.
As sold
Why it scores 40
The kind of meat scored best (13 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).
How much meat?
12.7 / 45 points- Meat on the label8.8 / 35 points
Meat is named but the label doesn’t say how much, so a quarter of the points.
- 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%.
How much starch?
10 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: The label doesn’t give enough of its analysis to estimate the carbohydrate: half marks.
How processed?
5 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
13 / 15 points- How the meat is listed10 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 83% 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
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
Nothing flagged in 34 ingredients. 3 are not in our ingredient database yet.
34 ingredients with nothing flagged
Animal fats, apples, beef, chickpeas, chicory root extract, citric acid (E330), fish, fish oil, folic acid (folate), glucosamine, kidney (animal organ), lamb, lentils, liver (animal organ), marshmallow root, navy beans, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pear, pinto beans, pork, probiotic cultures, pumpkin, rosehips, rosemary, seaweed, tocopherols (vitamin E), tripe, turmeric, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: zinc
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Apples, chickpeas, chicory root extract, citric acid (E330), fish, folic acid (folate), glucosamine, kidney (animal organ), lentils, liver (animal organ), navy beans, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pear, pinto beans, pork, probiotic cultures, pumpkin, rosehips, seaweed, tripe, turmeric, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Animal fats, apples, beef, chickpeas, chicory root extract, citric acid (E330), fish, fish oil, kidney (animal organ), lamb, lentils, liver (animal organ), navy beans, pear, pinto beans, pork, pumpkin, rosehips, rosemary, seaweed, tripe, turmeric
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlRosemary
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- EFSA 2020 (PMC7448085)Turmeric
- FSA register of feed additives (GB)Marshmallow root
- FSA register of feed additives (GB)Rosemary
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Seaweed
3 not in our ingredient database yet
Collard greens, juniper berries, sarsaparilla root
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: Jollyes. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Jollyes | 11.4kg | £115.00 | £10.09/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Jollyes | 2kg | £29.00 | £14.50/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Jollyes | 11.4kg | £115.00 | £10.09/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Jollyes | 2kg | £29.00 | £14.50/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Jollyes | 11.4kg | £115.00 | £10.09/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Jollyes | 2kg | £29.00 | £14.50/kg |
Your dog
Daily calories for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 17 to 20 points higher at the same price or less.
Sources
Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Jollyes.
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