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DryCompletePuppyContains grainFish oil
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- 19% meat
- Some meat not named by animal
- Added plant protein, starch or fibre
First ingredients: High quality chicken (including back and chest) (19%), wheat, dried poultry protein, rice (9%), soya meal… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- 19%
- Protein, dry weight
- 36%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~34%
- kcal/100 g
- 401
Ingredients
Listed first: High quality chicken. 19% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 19%
- Grain 9%
- Other 0.1%
- No amount given 71.9%
High quality chicken (including back and chest) (19%), wheat, dried poultry protein, rice (9%), soya meal, animal fats, digest, corn protein meal, wheat gluten, corn, dried beet pulp, minerals, dried egg, fish oil, dried colostrum (0.1%)
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
IU/kg: Vit A: 27 000; Vit D3: 900; Vit E: 200; mg/kg: Vit C: 120; Iron (II) sulphate monohydrate: (Fe: 120); Calcium iodate anhydrous: (I: 1.9); Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate: (Cu: 13); Manganous sulphate monohydrate: (Mn: 45); Zinc sulphate monohydrate: (Zn: 110); Sodium selenite: (Se: 0.13)
How we read this label
First ingredient: “High quality chicken”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| High quality chicken (including back and chest) (19%) | Named meat | 19% |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| dried poultry protein | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| rice (9%) | Grain | 9% |
| soya meal | Other | Not given |
| animal fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| digest | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| corn protein meal | Grain | Not given |
| wheat gluten | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| corn | Grain | Not given |
| dried beet pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
| dried egg | Other | Not given |
| fish oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| dried colostrum (0.1%) | Other | 0.1% |
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Nutrition
Protein 36% and carbs about 34%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 32% | 36% |
| above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 18% | 20% |
| Carbohydrate | ~31% | ~34% |
| below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2% | 2.2% |
| Ash | 7.5% | 8.3% |
| Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed | 10% | 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.
Energy401 kcal/100 g
Why it scores 31
The kind of meat scored best (9 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).
How much meat?
9.3 / 45 points- Meat on the label6.7 / 35 points
19% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level2.6 / 10 points
Protein is 35.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
8.7 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 33.9% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
4 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
9 / 15 points- How the meat is listed9 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh and unnamed meal, which earns 75% 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
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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 34% to 18% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.
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
Nothing flagged in 24 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
24 ingredients with nothing flagged
Animal fats, beet pulp, chicken, digest (rendered meat digest), egg, fish oil, maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, poultry, rice, soya (soybean), tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), wheat, wheat gluten
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
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)Animal fats, beet pulp, chicken, digest (rendered meat digest), egg, fish oil, maize (corn), minerals, poultry, rice, soya (soybean), wheat
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Digest (rendered meat digest), poultry, soya (soybean), manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Maize (corn) gluten, wheat gluten
- 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
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- 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
- 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
Dried colostrum
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 18% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home12kg · £46.39 up 18% since 10 Aug | 12kg | £46.39 | £3.87/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 18%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £46.39 | £3.87/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £41.75 | £3.48/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 12kg | £39.43 | £3.29/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 18 to 30 points higher and cost up to 25% more.
- Meat
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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Fair£4.59/kg
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- 80% this food 19%
- Carbs
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- To feed
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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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.
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