

2 prices from Pets at Home and Zooplus UK
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- 17% meat
- Added plant protein, starch or fibre
- Includes digest or flavouring
First ingredients: High quality salmon* (17%) (including head, bone, meat), rice* (14%), dried salmon protein*, corn protein meal*, corn*… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- 17%
- Protein, dry weight
- 31%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~39%
- kcal/100 g
- 396
Ingredients
Listed first: High quality salmon. 17% of the recipe is declared meat.
High quality salmon* (17%) (including head, bone, meat), rice* (14%), dried salmon protein*, corn protein meal*, corn*, animal fats, soya meal*, dried beet pulp*, corn grits*, digest, corn starch, dried vegetable fibre, minerals, dried egg*, soyabean oil, fish oil. *Protein sources
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
IU/kg: Vit A: 37 000; Vit D3: 1000; Vit E: 550; mg/kg: Vit C: 140; Iron (II) sulphate monohydrate: (Fe: 120); Calcium iodate anhydrous: (I: 1.9); Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate: (Cu: 13); Manganous sulphate monohydrate: (Mn: 46); Zinc sulphate monohydrate: (Zn: 110); Sodium selenite: (Se: 0.035). mg/kg: Tocopherol extracts from vegetable oils: 52
How we read this label
First ingredient: “High quality salmon*”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| High quality salmon* (17%) (including head, bone, meat) | Named meat | 17% |
| rice* (14%) | Grain | 14% |
| dried salmon protein* | Named meat | Not given |
| corn protein meal* | Grain | Not given |
| corn* | Grain | Not given |
| animal fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| soya meal* | Other | Not given |
| dried beet pulp* | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| corn grits* | Grain | Not given |
| digest | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| corn starch | Grain | Not given |
| dried vegetable fibre | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
| dried egg* | Other | Not given |
| soyabean oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| fish oil | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 31% and carbs about 39%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 28% | 31% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 18% | 20% |
| Carbohydrate | ~35% | ~39% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2% | 2.2% |
| Ash | 6.5% | 7.2% |
| 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.
Why it scores 29
The kind of meat scored best (10.3 of 15). Meat scored lowest (7.9 of 45).
How much meat?
7.9 / 45 points- Meat on the label6 / 35 points
17% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.9 / 10 points
Protein is 31.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
6.9 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 39.4% 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?
10.3 / 15 points- How the meat is listed10.3 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 85% 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 Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 39% to 24% by dry weight, and protein is about 43%.
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, digest (rendered meat digest), egg, fish oil, maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, minerals, oils and fats, rice, salmon, soya (soybean), starch, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable fibres, vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
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, digest (rendered meat digest), egg, fish oil, maize (corn), minerals, oils and fats, rice, salmon, soya (soybean), vegetable fibres
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Digest (rendered meat digest), soya (soybean), vegetable fibres, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- 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
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Maize (corn) gluten
- Reg (EU) 68/2013 Catalogue of feed materials, Part C (legislation.gov.uk)Starch
- 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
Protein sources
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
Lowest £3.50/kg at Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 18% since 10 Aug.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 18%, Zooplus UK down 5%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 14kg | £48.99 | £3.50/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Zooplus UK | 14kg | £48.99 (out of stock) | £3.50/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 14kg | £44.09 | £3.15/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Zooplus UK | 14kg | £48.99 | £3.50/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 14kg | £41.64 | £2.97/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Zooplus UK | 14kg | £51.79 | £3.70/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
2 dry foods score 20 to 28 points higher and cost up to 16% more.

- Meat
- 73% this food 17%
- Carbs
- about 24% this food about 39%
- To feed
- 16% more per 1,000 kcal
+28 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 59% this food 17%
- Carbs
- about 33% this food about 39%
- To feed
- 51% less per 1,000 kcal
+20 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.
Pages we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home, Zooplus UK.
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