Pooch & Mutt Joint Care Dry Dog Food

1 price from Pets at Home

Pooch & Mutt Joint Care Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAll agesGrain-freeFish oil
36/ 100
WeakTop 32% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • One animal protein: fish
  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Fresh Salmon (25 %), Sweet Potato (22 %), Salmon Protein (16 %), Potatoes, Peas… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
41%
Protein, dry weight
29%
Carbs, dry weight
~42%
kcal/100 g
355

Ingredients

Listed first: Fresh Salmon. 41% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 41%
  • Plants 30.5%
  • Other 5.2%
  • No amount given 23.3%

Fresh Salmon (25 %), Sweet Potato (22 %), Salmon Protein (16 %), Potatoes, Peas, Salmon Oil (3 %), Pea Protein (3 %), Dried Beet Pulp (2 %), Linseed (1.9 %), Alfalfa (1.6 %), Brewer´s Yeast (1 %), Salmon Gravy (1 %), Dried Cranberries (0.04 %), Dried Rosehips (0.04 %), Green Lipped Mussel (0.04 %), Glucosamine (0.026 %), Methyl Sulphonyl Methane (0.02 %), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.016 %), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.015 %), Dried Boswellia Serrata (0.013 %), Fructo-oligosaccharides (0.01 %), Mojave Yucca (0.01 %), Lactobacillus acidophilus HA–122 inactivated (15x10⁹ cells/kg).

Meat named animal protein

Additives

per kg: Vitamins: Vitamin A (3a672a) 18000 iu, vitamin D3 (3a671)1,800 iu, vitamin E (3a700) 400 mg, L-Carnitine (3a910) 450mg, vitamin B1 (3a820) 1.2mg, vitamin B2 1.0mg, niacinamide (3a315) 15mg, calcium-D-pantothenate (3a841)12 mg, vitamin B6 (3a831) 1.0mg, folic acid (3a316) 0.6mg, vitamin B12. 0.04mg, biotin (3a880) 0.72 mg, choline chloride (3a890) 720mg, zinc (3b606) 100mg, iron (3b106) 93mg, manganese (3b504) 43mg, copper (3b406) 17mg, iodine (3b201) 0.7 mg, selenium (3b810) 0.2mg. Trace Elements: None stated

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Fresh Salmon”. 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
Fresh Salmon (25%)Named meat25%
Sweet Potato (22%)Vegetable, fruit or plant22%
Salmon Protein (16%)Named meat16%
PotatoesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
PeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Salmon Oil (3%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient3%
Pea Protein (3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
Dried Beet Pulp (2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2%
Linseed (1.9%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1.9%
Alfalfa (1.6%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1.6%
Brewer´s Yeast (1%)Other1%
Salmon Gravy (1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
Dried Cranberries (0.04%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.04%
Dried Rosehips (0.04%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.04%
Green Lipped Mussel (0.04%)Named meat0.04%
Glucosamine (0.026%)Other0.026%
Methyl Sulphonyl Methane (0.02%)Other0.02%
Chondroitin Sulphate (0.016%)Other0.016%
Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.015%)Other0.015%
Dried Boswellia Serrata (0.013%)Other0.013%

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Nutrition

Protein 29% and carbs about 42%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein26%29%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat15%17%
Carbohydrate~38%~42%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.8%4.2%
Ash7%7.8%
Moisture10%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.

Energy355 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 36

The kind of meat scored best (9.7 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    15.9 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label14.4 / 35 points

      41% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.5 / 10 points

      Protein is 28.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.9 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 42.4% 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?

    9.7 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.7 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 81% 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

Top 32% of dry foods. 53 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 42% to 27% by dry weight, and protein is about 41%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 40 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 40 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
40 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, beet pulp, biotin (vitamin H/B7), broth (meat stock), choline chloride, chondroitin, cranberries, folic acid (folate), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, green-lipped mussel, l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), MSM (methylsulfonylmethane), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), peas, potato, probiotic cultures, processed animal protein, rosehips, salmon, salmon oil, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), yeast

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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Dried boswellia serrata

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 at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 33% since 10 Aug.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home2kg · £14.99 up 33% since 10 Aug2kg£14.99£7.50/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 33%.

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4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£14.99£7.50/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£13.49£6.75/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£11.24£5.62/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 23 to 27 points higher and cost up to 21% more.

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Carbs
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To feed
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Carbs
about 18% this food about 42%
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Carbs
about 8% this food about 42%
To feed
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+24 pointsCompare

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76% this food 41%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 42%
To feed
19% less per 1,000 kcal

+23 pointsCompare

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

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 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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