Orijen Small Breed Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil
62/ 100

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

Good points

  • 73% meat
  • Low starch, about 21% carbs
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Raw turkey (19%), Fresh chicken (18%), Raw quail (4%), Raw whole hake (4%), Raw whole herring (4%)… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
73%
Protein, dry weight
44%
Carbs, dry weight
~21%
kcal/100 g
353

Ingredients

Listed first: Raw turkey. 73% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 73%
  • Other 11%
  • No amount given 16%

Raw turkey (19%), Fresh chicken (18%), Raw quail (4%), Raw whole hake (4%), Raw whole herring (4%), Raw turkey liver (4%), fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (4%), fresh eggs (4%), dehydrated turkey (4%), dehydrated chicken (4%), dehydrated herring (4%), dehydrated chicken liver (4%), dehydrated egg (4%), chicken fat (3%), pollock oil, pea starch, dried kelp, New Zealand green mussels, fresh whole butternut squash, fresh whole pumpkin, salt, lavender, marshmallow root, rosehips, fresh whole apples, fresh whole carrots, fresh whole pears, fresh whole zucchini, milk thistle, burdock root, whole red lentils, whole pinto beans, whole green lentils, whole saskatoon berries, turmeric, whole navy beans, whole chickpeas, lentil fibre, whole peas, dried chicory root, fresh beet greens, fresh kale, fresh spinach, fresh turnip greens, whole cranberries, whole blueberries

Meat named animal protein

Additives

vegetable oils, citric acid, Rosemary extract, 3b606 (Zinc), 3b406 (Copper), 3a821 Vitamin B1, 3a841 Vitamin B5, 3a700 Vitamin E

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Raw turkey”. 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
Raw turkey (19%)Named meat19%
Fresh chicken (18%)Named meat18%
Raw quail (4%)Named meat4%
Raw whole hake (4%)Named meat4%
Raw whole herring (4%)Named meat4%
Raw turkey liver (4%)Named meat4%
fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (4%)Named meat4%
fresh eggs (4%)Other4%
dehydrated turkey (4%)Named meat4%
dehydrated chicken (4%)Named meat4%
dehydrated herring (4%)Named meat4%
dehydrated chicken liver (4%)Named meat4%
dehydrated egg (4%)Other4%
chicken fat (3%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient3%
pollock oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
pea starchVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
dried kelpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
New Zealand green musselsNamed meatNot given
fresh whole butternut squashVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
fresh whole pumpkinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 44% and carbs about 21%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein39%44%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat18%20%
Carbohydrate~18%~21%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre4%4.5%
Ash9%10%
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.

Energy353 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 62

The kind of meat scored best (14.2 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    29.7 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label25.6 / 35 points

      73% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level4.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 44.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    13.2 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 20.5% 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?

    14.2 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed11.2 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 94% 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 Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 21% to 14% by dry weight, and protein is about 50%.

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

Nothing flagged in 42 ingredients. 3 are not in our ingredient database yet.

42 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, beetroot, blueberries, burdock root, carrot, chicken, chickpeas, chicory root extract, citric acid (E330), courgette, cranberries, egg, fish, fish oil, green-lipped mussel, kale, lavender, lentil fibre, lentils, liver (animal organ), marshmallow root, milk thistle, navy beans, oils and fats, pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pear, peas, pinto beans, poultry fat, pumpkin, rosehips, rosemary, salt (sodium chloride), seaweed, spinach, starch, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey, turmeric, vitamin B1 (thiamine)

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper, zinc

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

Sources for these ingredients
3 not in our ingredient database yet

Fresh turnip greens, raw quail, 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

Your dog

Grams a day for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 16 points higher.

Compare side by side →
Meat
100% this food 73%

+16 points

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 10 Aug 2026: Jollyes.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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