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Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Pate with Chicken Adult Wet Dog Food
Good points
- Low starch, about 13% carbs
- High protein, 47% dry weight
Worth knowing
- Added sugar: −10 points
- 4% meat
- Some meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Meat and Animal Derivatives (60% including 4% Chicken), Minerals, Oils and Fats, Various Sugars, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 4%
- Protein, dry weight
- 47%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~13%
- kcal/100 g
- 82
Ingredients
Listed first: Meat and Animal Derivatives. 4% of the recipe is declared meat.
Meat and Animal Derivatives (60% including 4% Chicken), Minerals, Oils and Fats, Various Sugars, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin.
Meat named animal protein
Additives
Vitamin D3 140IU, Vitamin E 30mg. Trace Elements: Zinc (Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate) 12mg, Manganese (Manganese (II) Oxide) 1mg, Copper (Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 0.5mg, Iodine (Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 0.3mg.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Meat and Animal Derivatives”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Meat and Animal Derivatives (60% including 4% Chicken) | Named meat | 4% |
| Minerals | Other | Not given |
| Oils and Fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Various Sugars | Other | Not given |
| Derivatives of Vegetable Origin. | A group name, not one ingredient | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 47% and carbs about 13%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 9% | 47% |
| within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 5% | 26% |
| Carbohydrate | ~2.5% | ~13% |
| within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.5% | 2.6% |
| Ash | 2% | 11% |
| Moisture | 81% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.
Why it scores 20
Starch scored best (15.6 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (0.8 of 15).
How much meat?
6 / 45 points- Meat on the label1.4 / 35 points
4% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level4.6 / 10 points
Protein is 47.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
15.6 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 13.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
8 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.
What kind of meat?
0.8 / 15 points- How the meat is listed0.8 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as an unnamed category and fresh, which earns 7% 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.
Points lost for ingredients: Sugars (−10).
Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.
Against other wet 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
1 ingredient costs 10 points: sugars. 2 more noted. 8 flagged nothing.
- 1 costs points
- 2 noted
- 8 nothing flagged
- SugarsCosts 10 pointsFeed material (declared category)
Why it costs points and sources
Added sugar is there for taste. Dogs have no need for it, and it adds calories without nutrition.
- Meat and animal derivativesCounted in “What kind of meat?”Feed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which animal or plant parts are used. It costs points under “What kind of meat?” rather than as a deduction.
- Derivatives of vegetable originNoted, no points takenFeed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which plant parts are used.
8 ingredients with nothing flagged
Minerals, oils and fats, tocopherols (vitamin E)
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, manganese, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), 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)Manganese, zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Minerals, oils and fats
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
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
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 300g | £0.59 | £1.97/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 12 x 150g | £4.69 | £2.61/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 300g | £0.53 | £1.77/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 12 x 150g | £4.22 | £2.34/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 300g | £0.53 | £1.77/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 12 x 150g | £4.22 | £2.34/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
2 wet foods score 47 to 51 points higher and cost up to 25% more.

- Meat
- 70% this food 4%
- Carbs
- about 3% this food about 13%
- To feed
- 9% more per 1,000 kcal
+51 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 80% this food 4%
- Carbs
- about 11% this food about 13%
- To feed
- 25% more per 1,000 kcal
+47 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
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.
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