Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Light 15% Less Fat Chicken & Veg Adult Dry Dog Food

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Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Light 15% Less Fat Chicken & Veg Adult Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
12/ 100
WeakTied 1,123rd of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • 4% meat
  • About 53% carbs (dry weight)
  • Some meat not named by animal

First ingredients: Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives (26% including 4% Chicken), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
4%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~53%
kcal/100 g
322

Ingredients

Listed first: Cereals. 4% of the recipe is declared meat.

Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives (26% including 4% Chicken), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin, Vegetables (1.3% Dried Peas, equivalent to 4% Peas), Oils and Fats, Minerals.

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamins: Vitamin A 17,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,500IU, Vitamin E 70mg. Amino Acids: Methionine 1,500mg. Trace Elements: Zinc (as Zinc Oxide) 100mg, Iron (as Iron (ll) Sulphate Monohydrate) 60mg, Manganese (as Manganese (ll) Oxide) 50mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 8mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate, Anhydrous) 2.5mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.10mg. Antioxidants

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Cereals”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
CerealsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Meat and Animal Derivatives (26% including 4% Chicken)Named meat4%
Derivatives of Vegetable OriginA group name, not one ingredientNot given
Vegetables (1.3% Dried Peas, equivalent to 4% Peas)Vegetable, fruit or plant1.3%
Oils and FatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Minerals.OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 53%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein24%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat5.5%6.1%
Carbohydrate~48%~53%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre4.5%5%
Ash8%8.9%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%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.

Energy322 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 12

How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). Meat scored lowest (2.5 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    2.5 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label1.4 / 35 points

      4% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    2.2 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 53.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    1.8 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed1.8 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as an unnamed category and fresh, which earns 15% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3 points

      No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Tied 1,123rd of 1,171 dry foods. 11 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 53% to 34% by dry weight, and protein is about 39%.

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

2 noted: meat and animal derivatives, and derivatives of vegetable origin.

  • 2 noted
  • 15 nothing flagged
15 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, cereals, DL-methionine, minerals, oils and fats, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetables

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

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

Sources for these ingredients

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 Home12kg · £12.19 up 11% since 10 Aug12kg£12.19£1.02/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home2kg · £2.39 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£2.39£1.20/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12kg£12.19£1.02/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£2.39£1.20/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£10.97£0.91/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£2.15£1.07/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£10.97£0.91/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£2.15£1.07/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Similar foods

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Sources

Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.

Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.

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

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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