Pooch & Mutt Salmon Complete Dry Dog Food with Insect

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Pooch & Mutt Salmon Complete Dry Dog Food with Insect

DryCompleteAll agesGrain-free
39/ 100
WeakTop 22% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

Good points

  • 50% meat
  • No ingredient deductions
  • Fresh meat, named by animal

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Fresh Salmon (35 %), Fresh Insect (15 %), Sweet Potatoes (15 %), Potato Flakes, Chickpeas (5 %)… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
50%
Protein, dry weight
24%
Carbs, dry weight
~44%
kcal/100 g
372

Ingredients

Listed first: Fresh Salmon. 50% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 50%
  • Plants 31%
  • Other 12.4%
  • No amount given 6.6%

Fresh Salmon (35 %), Fresh Insect (15 %), Sweet Potatoes (15 %), Potato Flakes, Chickpeas (5 %), Dried Apple Pulp (3 %), Red Lentils (3 %), Hydrolysed Yeast (3 %), Pumpkin (3 %), Coconut Oil (2.9 %), Lignocellulose (2 %), Crushed Egg Shells (1.5 %), Sunflower Oil (1.5 %), Dried Spinach (1 %), Dried Carrots (1 %), Microalgae Oil (0.6 %), Potassium Chloride (0.4 %), Dried Rosehip (0.2 %), Dried Parsnip (0.2 %), Dried Blueberries (0.1 %), Dried Cranberries (0.1 %), Dried Rosemary (0.1 %), Dried Thyme (0.1 %), Dried Kelp (0.1 %), Dried Dill (0.1 %), Glucosamine (0.026 %), Green-Lipped Mussels (0.025 %), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.016 %), Brewer's Yeast (source of Mannan-oligosaccharides, 0.015 %), Chicory Root (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides, 0.01 %), Dried Turmeric (0.01 %), Mojave Yucca (0.01 %), Lactobacillus helveticus HA–122 inactivated (15x10¹¹ cells/kg)

Meat named animal protein

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

Additives

per kg: Vitamin A (3a672a) 19,000 IU, Vitamin D3 (3a671) 1,400 IU, Vitamin E (3a700) 450 mg, Vitamin C (3a312) 200 mg, Biotin (3a880) 0.5 mg, Vitamin B1 (3a821) 3.0 mg, Vitamin B2 (3a825i) 7.0 mg, Niacinamide (3a315) 16 mg, Calcium-D-Pantothenate (3a841) 15 mg, Vitamin B6 (3a831) 1.0 mg, Folic Acid (3a316) 0.5 mg, Vitamin B12 (3a835) 0.04 mg, Zinc (3b606) 72 mg, Iron (3b106) 62 mg, Manganese (3b504) 32 mg, Potassium Iodide (3b201) 1.0 mg, Copper (3b406) 12 mg, Taurine (3a370) 1,500 mg, Choline Chloride (3a890) 1,800 mg, L-Carnitine (3a910) 210 mg. Technological Additives (per kg): Tocopherol Extracts from Vegetable Oil (1b306(i)), Ascorbyl Palmitate (1b304).

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 (35%)Named meat35%
Fresh Insect (15%)Named meat15%
Sweet Potatoes (15%)Vegetable, fruit or plant15%
Potato FlakesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Chickpeas (5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
Dried Apple Pulp (3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
Red Lentils (3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
Hydrolysed Yeast (3%)Other3%
Pumpkin (3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
Coconut Oil (2.9%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient2.9%
Lignocellulose (2%)Other2%
Crushed Egg Shells (1.5%)Other1.5%
Sunflower Oil (1.5%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1.5%
Dried Spinach (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Dried Carrots (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Microalgae Oil (0.6%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.6%
Potassium Chloride (0.4%)Other0.4%
Dried Rosehip (0.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%
Dried Parsnip (0.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%
Dried Blueberries (0.1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%

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Nutrition

Protein 24% and carbs about 44%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein22%24%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat17%19%
Carbohydrate~40%~44%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.8%4.2%
Ash7.2%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.

Energy372 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 39

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    18.2 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label17.5 / 35 points

      50% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.7 / 10 points

      Protein is 24.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.2 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 44.4% 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?

    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 dry foods

Top 22% of dry foods. 24 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 44% to 27% by dry weight, and protein is about 39%.

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

2 noted: yeast and yucca extract. 48 flagged nothing.

  • 2 noted
  • 48 nothing flagged
  • 3 not in our ingredient database yet
48 ingredients with nothing flagged

Algal oil, apples, biotin (vitamin H/B7), blueberries, carrot, chickpeas, chicory root extract, choline chloride, chondroitin, coconut oil, cranberries, dill, folic acid (folate), glucosamine, green-lipped mussel, l-carnitine, lentils, lignocellulose, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), parsnip, potassium chloride, potato, probiotic cultures, pumpkin, rosehips, rosemary, salmon, seaweed, spinach, sunflower oil, sweet potato, taurine, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), turmeric, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

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
3 not in our ingredient database yet

Ascorbyl palmitate (1b304)., crushed egg shells, fresh insect

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pooch & Mutt10kg - One-off · £79.9910kg - One-off£79.99£8.00/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pooch & Mutt2kg - One-off · £20.992kg - One-off£20.99£10.49/kgVisit

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 20 to 24 points higher and cost up to 19% more.

Compare side by side →
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Carbs
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To feed
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Meat
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Carbs
about 18% this food about 44%
To feed
48% less per 1,000 kcal

+22 pointsCompare

Meat
78% this food 50%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 44%
To feed
42% less per 1,000 kcal

+21 pointsCompare

Meat
79.5% this food 50%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 44%
To feed
6% less per 1,000 kcal

+20 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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