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Orijen Small Breed Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil
41/ 100
WeakTop 18% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • High protein, 43% dry weight
  • Fresh meat, named by animal
  • Meat amount not given
  • Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Turkey, chicken, turkey giblets (liver, heart, gizzard), whole herring, salmon… 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: Turkey. The label gives no meat figure.

Turkey, chicken, turkey giblets (liver, heart, gizzard), whole herring, salmon, dehydrated turkey, dehydrated chicken, dehydrated sardine, dehydrated chicken liver, dehydrated egg, whole red lentils, whole pinto beans, whole navy beans, chicken fat, whole green lentils, whole chickpeas, dried apple pomace, whole peas, chicken liver, eggs, natural chicken flavor, pollock oil, chicken heart, New Zealand green mussels, vitamin E supplement, whole cranberries, whole pumpkin, whole butternut squash, collard greens, whole apples, whole pears, dried kelp, zinc proteinate, mixed tocopherols (preservative), salt, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, copper proteinate, dried Bacillus coagulans fermentation product, dried chicory root, turmeric, sarsaparilla root, althea root, rosehips, juniper berries, citric acid (preservative), rosemary extract.

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamin E, Glucosamine

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Turkey”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
TurkeyNamed meatNot given
chickenNamed meatNot given
turkey giblets (liver, heart, gizzard)Named meatNot given
whole herringNamed meatNot given
salmonNamed meatNot given
dehydrated turkeyNamed meatNot given
dehydrated chickenNamed meatNot given
dehydrated sardineNamed meatNot given
dehydrated chicken liverNamed meatNot given
dehydrated eggOtherNot given
whole red lentilsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole pinto beansVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole navy beansVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
chicken fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
whole green lentilsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole chickpeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried apple pomaceVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
whole peasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
chicken liverNamed meatNot given
eggsOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 43% with the water taken out.

As sold

Protein38%43% with the water taken out
Fat18%
Fibre4%
AshNot on label
Moisture12%
EnergyNot on label

Why it scores 41

The kind of meat scored best (13.8 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    12.7 / 45
    • Meat on the label8.8 / 35

      Meat is named but the label doesn’t say how much, so a quarter of the points.

    • Protein level3.9 / 10

      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?

    10 / 20

    The label doesn’t give enough of its analysis to estimate the carbohydrate: half marks.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.

  4. What kind of meat?

    13.8 / 15
    • How the meat is listed10.8 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 90% 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

      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 18% of dry foods. 25 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.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 39 ingredients. 3 are not in our ingredient database yet.

39 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, chicken, chickpeas, chicory root extract, citric acid (E330), cranberries, egg, fish, fish oil, folic acid (folate), glucosamine, green-lipped mussel, heart (animal organ), 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, salt (sodium chloride), 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
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

Your dog

Daily calories for your dog

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Sources

Read from 1 shop, saved 10 Aug 2026.

Page we read, saved 10 Aug 2026: Jollyes.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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