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Pets Love Fresh Freeze Dried Complete - Chicken, Sweet Potato, Peas and Apple
Freeze-dried rawCompleteAdultGrain-free
Good points
- 80% meat
- Low starch, about 12% carbs
- Freeze-dried, not extruded
First ingredients: Chicken 80%, Sweet Potato 10%, Peas 4%, Apple 4%… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 80%
- Protein, dry weight
- 51%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~12%
- kcal/100 g
- 393
Ingredients
Listed first: Chicken. 80% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 80%
- Plants 18%
- Other 3%
Chicken 80%, Sweet Potato 10%, Peas 4%, Apple 4%, Vitamin & Mineral Pack 3% (incl. Glucosamine, Chondroitin, Green Tea, Yucca, Seaweed, Chicory Root, Dried Dandelion Root, Dried Hawthorn Leaf)
Meat named animal protein
From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Chicken 80%”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken 80% | Named meat | 80% |
| Sweet Potato 10% | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 10% |
| Peas 4% | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 4% |
| Apple 4% | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 4% |
| Vitamin & Mineral Pack 3% (incl. Glucosamine, Chondroitin, … | Other | 3% |
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Nutrition
Protein 51% and carbs about 12%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 50% | 51% |
| above the usual 40 to 49% for freeze-dried and air-dried foods | ||
| Fat | 21% | 21% |
| Carbohydrate | ~11% | ~12% |
| within the usual 7 to 14% for freeze-dried and air-dried foods | ||
| Fibre | 1.9% | 1.9% |
| Ash | 14% | 14% |
| Moisture | 1.8% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the freeze-dried and air-dried foods we rate.
Energy393 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.
Why it scores 76
Starch scored best (16.2 of 20). Meat scored lowest (33.2 of 45).
How much meat?
33.2 / 45 points- Meat on the label28 / 35 points
80% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level5.2 / 10 points
Protein is 50.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
16.2 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 11.5% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
15 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Freeze-dried: 15 of 20.
What kind of meat?
12 / 15 points- How the meat is listed12 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% 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 freeze-dried and air-dried 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 5 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
5 ingredients with nothing flagged
Apples, chicken, minerals, peas, sweet potato
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Apples, chicken, minerals, peas, sweet potato
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Apples
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Vitamin
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: Pets Love Fresh. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets Love Fresh | 2 x 150g | £17.98 | £59.93/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Pets Love Fresh | 2 x 150g | £17.98 | £59.93/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
2 dry foods score 9 to 12 points higher and cost up to 3% more.
- Meat
- 96% this food 80%
- Carbs
- about 4% this food about 12%
- To feed
- 28% less per 1,000 kcal
+12 pointsCompare
Nulo Freeze-Dried Raw Dog Food Turkey with Salmon & Strawberries
85% meatFreeze-dried raw · All ages
Excellent£67.96/kg
- Meat
- 85% this food 80%
- Carbs
- about 0% this food about 12%
- To feed
- 3% more per 1,000 kcal
+9 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.
From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets Love Fresh (the maker).
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