Pooch & Mutt Dry Superfood For Senior Dogs

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Pooch & Mutt Dry Superfood For Senior Dogs

DryCompleteSeniorGrain-freeFish oil
28/ 100
WeakTied 640th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

Good points

  • One main animal protein: chicken
  • No ingredient deductions
  • Includes organ meat

Worth knowing

  • About 51% carbs (dry weight)
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Chicken Protein (30 %), Sweet Potatoes (23 %), Potatoes, Chickpeas (4 %), Hydrolysed Chicken Liver (4 %)… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
34%
Protein, dry weight
28%
Carbs, dry weight
~51%
kcal/100 g
335

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken Protein. 34% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 34%
  • Plants 37%
  • Other 9.9%
  • No amount given 19.1%

Chicken Protein (30 %), Sweet Potatoes (23 %), Potatoes, Chickpeas (4 %), Hydrolysed Chicken Liver (4 %), Dried Pumpkin (4 %), Dried Apple Pulp (4 %), Lignocellulose (3 %), Chicken Fat (2 %), Linseed (2 %), Salmon Oil (2 %), Hydrolysed Yeasts (1 % - a source of inositol and amino acids), Potassium Chloride (0.4 %), Microalgae Oil (0.3 %), Carrots (0.3 %), Dried Chamomile (0.2 %), Dried Cranberries (0.2 %), Dried Seaweed (0.2 %), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.15 %), Fructo-oligosaccharides (0.1 %), Glucosamine (0.1 %), Dried Blackcurrant (0.05 %), Dried Spinach (0.05 %), Dried Rosehips (0.05 %), Dried Pomegranate (0.05 %), Dried Kale (0.05 %), Mojave Yucca (0.01 %)

Meat named animal protein

From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.

Additives

per kg: Vitamin A (3a672a) 20,000 IU, Vitamin D3 (3a671) 1,300 IU, Vitamin E (3a700) 500 mg, L-Carnitine (3a910) 240 mg, Vitamin B1 (3a821) 4.7 mg, Vitamin B2 (3a825i) 6.4 mg, Niacinamide (3a315) 55 mg, Calcium-D-Pantothenate (3a841) 23 mg, Vitamin B6 (3a831) 8.5 mg, Folic Acid (3a316) 0.4 mg, Vitamin B12 (3a835) 0.04 mg, Biotin (3a880) 0.5 mg, Choline Chloride (3a890) 2,400 mg, Zinc (3b612) 100 mg, Iron (3b107) 62 mg, Manganese (3b505) 30 mg, Copper (3b407) 12 mg, Potassium Iodide (3b201) 1.5 mg. Technological Additives (per kg): Tocopherol Extracts from Vegetable Oil (1b306(i)), Ascorbyl Palmitate (1b304).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken Protein”. 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
Chicken Protein (30%)Named meat30%
Sweet Potatoes (23%)Vegetable, fruit or plant23%
PotatoesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Chickpeas (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Hydrolysed Chicken Liver (4%)Named meat4%
Dried Pumpkin (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Dried Apple Pulp (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Lignocellulose (3%)Other3%
Chicken Fat (2%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient2%
Linseed (2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2%
Salmon Oil (2%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient2%
Hydrolysed Yeasts (1% - a source of inositol and amino acid…Other1%
Potassium Chloride (0.4%)Other0.4%
Microalgae Oil (0.3%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.3%
Carrots (0.3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.3%
Dried Chamomile (0.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%
Dried Cranberries (0.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%
Dried Seaweed (0.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%
Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.15%)Other0.1%
Fructo-oligosaccharides (0.1%)Other0.1%

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 51%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein25%28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat8.5%9.4%
Carbohydrate~46%~51%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre4.5%5%
Ash6%6.7%
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.

Energy335 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 28

The kind of meat scored best (8.6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    13.2 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label11.9 / 35 points

      34% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.3 / 10 points

      Protein is 27.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    3 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 51.1% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.6 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed5.6 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as meal and hydrolysed, which earns 47% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat3 / 3 points

      Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is 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 640th of 1,171 dry foods. 29 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 51% to 32% by dry weight, and protein is about 36%.

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

4 noted: liver, yeast, chamomile and 1 more. 41 flagged nothing.

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

Algal oil, apples, biotin (vitamin H/B7), blackcurrant, carrot, chickpeas, choline chloride, cranberries, folic acid (folate), fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, kale, l-carnitine, lignocellulose, linseed (flaxseed), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pomegranate extract, potassium chloride, potato, poultry fat, processed animal protein, pumpkin, rosehips, salmon oil, seaweed, spinach, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, 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

Ascorbyl palmitate (1b304).

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

One shop doesn’t say the pack weight, so we can’t compare its price.

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pooch & Mutt7.5kg - One-off · £38.997.5kg - One-off£38.99£5.20/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pooch & Mutt1.5kg - One-off · £8.991.5kg - One-off£8.99£5.99/kgVisit
Pooch & MuttSenior Complete Bundle - One-off · £42.49Senior Complete Bundle - One-off£42.49Not givenVisit

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 18 to 32 points higher and cost up to 10% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78% this food 34%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 51%
To feed
20% less per 1,000 kcal

+32 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 34%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 51%
To feed
10% more per 1,000 kcal

+31 pointsCompare

Meat
72% this food 34%
Carbs
about 41% this food about 51%
To feed
19% less per 1,000 kcal

+24 pointsCompare

Meat
43.5% this food 34%
Price
7% less per kg

+18 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: Pooch & Mutt (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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