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Pooch & Mutt Calm & Relaxed Complete Wet Dog Food
WetCompleteAll agesGrain-free
Good points
- 56% meat
- Almost no starch
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Added plant protein, starch or fibre
First ingredients: Lamb 26 %, Beef 16 %, Turkey 14 %, Pea Protein 2 %, Dried Pea 1.5 %… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 56%
- Protein, dry weight
- 41%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~4%
- kcal/100 g
- 110
Ingredients
Listed first: Lamb. 56% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 56%
- Plants 3.5%
- Other 0.7%
- No amount given 39.8%
Lamb 26 %, Beef 16 %, Turkey 14 %, Pea Protein 2 %, Dried Pea 1.5 %, Lemon Balm 0.5 %, Minerals, Hemp Oil 0.2 %, MOS, FOS, Mojave yucca
Meat named animal protein
From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Additives
per kg: Vitamin D3 (3a671) 200 IU, Vitamin E (3a700) 100 mg, Biotin (3a880) 0.5 mg, Zinc (3b606) 12 mg, Manganese (3b504) 3 mg, Iron (3b106) 10 mg, Copper (3b406) 4 mg, Iodine (3b201) 0.7 mg, Taurine (3a370) 800 mg. Technological Additives (per kg): Carob Gum (E410) 4,000 mg, Tocopherol extracts from vegetable oil (1b306(i)), Rosemary Extract.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Lamb 26%”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Lamb 26% | Named meat | 26% |
| Beef 16% | Named meat | 16% |
| Turkey 14% | Named meat | 14% |
| Pea Protein 2% | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 2% |
| Dried Pea 1.5% | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 1.5% |
| Lemon Balm 0.5% | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.5% |
| Minerals | Other | Not given |
| Hemp Oil 0.2% | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 0.2% |
| MOS | Other | Not given |
| FOS | Other | Not given |
| Mojave yucca | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 41% and carbs about 4%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 9.5% | 41% |
| within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 7.2% | 31% |
| Carbohydrate | ~0.8% | ~3.5% |
| below the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.7% | 12% |
| Ash | 2.8% | 12% |
| Moisture | 77% | 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.
Energy110 kcal/100 g
Why it scores 60
Starch scored best (18.8 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (7 of 20).
How much meat?
23.1 / 45 points- Meat on the label19.6 / 35 points
56% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level3.5 / 10 points
Protein is 41.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
18.8 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 3.5% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
7 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.
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 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 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 20 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 20 nothing flagged
- 1 not in our ingredient database yet
- Yucca extractNoted, no points takenFeed material (flavouring)
Why it’s noted and sources
Added to reduce stool odour. The ASPCA lists the yucca plant as toxic to dogs, and in a dog study the extract raised a liver enzyme at 750 mg/kg of food, though not at 500. Labels rarely give the amount. We note it, but take no points off.
20 ingredients with nothing flagged
Beef, biotin (vitamin H/B7), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), hemp seed oil, lamb, locust bean gum, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, peas, rosemary, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey, vegetable protein extracts
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc
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)Beef, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), lamb, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, peas, rosemary, turkey, vegetable protein extracts
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Biotin (vitamin H/B7), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), taurine, vegetable protein extracts, manganese, zinc
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlRosemary
- 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 FEEDAP (PMC13397469)Locust bean gum
- 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
- FSA register of feed additives (GB)Locust bean gum
- FSA register of feed additives (GB)Rosemary
- PMC13308462Hemp seed oil
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Hemp seed oil
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Lemon balm
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: Pooch & Mutt. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
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- Carbs
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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: Pooch & Mutt (the maker).
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