Pro Plan PURINA PRO PLAN Large Athletic Puppy Healthy Start

Name: Pro Plan PURINA PRO PLAN Large Athletic Puppy Healthy Start
Brand: Pro Plan

DryCompletePuppyContains grainFish oil

WeakTop 49% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 27 Sep 2026

No ingredient deductions

19% meat
Some meat not named by animal
Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Premium chicken (19%, including back and breast), wheat, dried poultry protein, rice (9%), soy meal… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 19%
Protein, dry weight: 36%
Carbs, dry weight: ~34%
kcal/100 g: 372

Ingredients

Listed first: Premium chicken. 19% of the recipe is declared meat.

Meat 19%
Grain 9%
Other 0.1%
No amount given 71.9%

Premium chicken (19%, including back and breast), wheat, dried poultry protein, rice (9%), soy meal, animal fat, digest, maize protein meal, wheat gluten, maize, dried beet pulp, minerals, dried egg, fish oil, dried colostrum (0.1%)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional physiological additives: Vitamin A (27,000 IU), vitamin D3 (900 IU), vitamin E (200 IU), vitamin C (120 mg), iron sulfate monohydrate (120 mg), calcium iodate anhydrous (1.9mg), copper sulphate pentahydrate (13mg), manganese sulphate monohydrate (45mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate (110mg), sodium selenite (0.13mg).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Premium chicken”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the label	We read it as	Share on the label
Premium chicken (19%, including back and breast)	Named meat	19%
wheat	Grain	Not given
dried poultry protein	Meat, animal not named	Not given
rice (9%)	Grain	9%
soy meal	Other	Not given
animal fat	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
digest	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
maize protein meal	Grain	Not given
wheat gluten	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
maize	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.

Make-upwater is 10% (assumed), left out

Analysis as sold and 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.

Energy372 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

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 points
Estimated 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 points
How 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.

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Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Top 49% of dry foods. 48 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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 34% to 19% 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.

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), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients