

1 price from Jollyes
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
- High protein, 43% dry weight
- Includes organ meat
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not given
- Added plant protein, starch or fibre
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: Chicken, turkey, salmon, whole herring, chicken 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: Chicken. The label gives no meat figure.
Chicken, turkey, salmon, whole herring, chicken liver, dehydrated chicken, dehydrated sardine, dehydrated chicken liver, dehydrated egg, whole red lentils, dried Bacillus coagulans fermentation product, whole pinto beans, dried chicory root, turmeric, whole navy beans, sarsaparilla root, althea root, whole green lentils, rosehips, juniper berries, whole chickpeas, citric acid (preservative), whole peas, rosemary extract, dried apple pomace, turkey giblets (liver, heart, gizzard), eggs, dehydrated turkey, natural chicken flavor, dehydrated pumpkin, pollock oil, chicken fat, lentil fiber, chicken heart, vitamin E supplement, whole pumpkin, whole butternut squash, collard greens, whole apples, whole pears, whole cranberries, dried kelp, zinc proteinate, mixed tocopherols (preservative), niacin, thiamine mononitrate, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, copper proteinate
Meat named animal protein
Additives
Vitamin E (min.) (750 IU/kg), Glucosamine* (min.) (600 mg/kg)
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Chicken”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken | Named meat | Not given |
| turkey | Named meat | Not given |
| salmon | Named meat | Not given |
| whole herring | Named meat | Not given |
| chicken liver | Named meat | Not given |
| dehydrated chicken | Named meat | Not given |
| dehydrated sardine | Named meat | Not given |
| dehydrated chicken liver | Named meat | Not given |
| dehydrated egg | Other | Not given |
| whole red lentils | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| dried Bacillus coagulans fermentation product | Other | Not given |
| whole pinto beans | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| dried chicory root | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| turmeric | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| whole navy beans | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| sarsaparilla root | Other | Not given |
| althea root | Other | Not given |
| whole green lentils | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| rosehips | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| juniper berries | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 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 (13.7 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 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?
4 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
13.7 / 15 points- How the meat is listed10.7 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 89% 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 38 ingredients. 3 are not in our ingredient database yet.
38 ingredients with nothing flagged
Apples, chicken, chickpeas, chicory root extract, citric acid (E330), cranberries, egg, fish, fish oil, folic acid (folate), glucosamine, heart (animal organ), lentil fibre, lentils, liver (animal organ), marshmallow root, navy beans, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pear, peas, pinto beans, poultry fat, probiotic cultures, pumpkin, rosehips, rosemary, salmon, seaweed, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey, turmeric, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
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
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Apples, chickpeas, chicory root extract, citric acid (E330), cranberries, fish, folic acid (folate), glucosamine, heart (animal organ), lentil fibre, lentils, liver (animal organ), navy beans, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pear, pinto beans, poultry fat, probiotic cultures, pumpkin, rosehips, seaweed, 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)Apples, chicken, chickpeas, chicory root extract, citric acid (E330), cranberries, egg, fish, fish oil, heart (animal organ), lentil fibre, lentils, liver (animal organ), navy beans, pear, peas, pinto beans, poultry fat, pumpkin, rosehips, rosemary, salmon, seaweed, turkey, 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
- EFSA FEEDAP (PMC13063795)Cranberries
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- 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
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
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
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jollyes2kg · £25.00 | 2kg | £25.00 | £12.50/kg | Visit |
Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Jollyes | 2kg | £25.00 | £12.50/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Jollyes | 2kg | £25.00 | £12.50/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Jollyes | 2kg | £25.00 | £12.50/kg |
Your dog
Daily calories for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 9 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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