

2 prices from Zooplus UK
Good points
- 65% meat
- Low starch, about 19% carbs
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Meat and animal by-products (50% beef, 15% chicken), fruit (4% papaya 3% coconut), oils and fats (0.2% linseed oil) All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 65%
- Protein, dry weight
- 44%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~19%
- kcal/100 g
- 109
Ingredients
Listed first: Meat and animal by-products. 65% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 65%
- Plants 4%
- Other 0.2%
- No amount given 30.8%
Meat and animal by-products (50% beef, 15% chicken), fruit (4% papaya 3% coconut), oils and fats (0.2% linseed oil)
Meat named animal protein
Additives
per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A 3000 IU, vitamin D3 200 IU, vitamin E 30 mg, zinc as zinc sulphate monohydrate 15 mg, manganese as manganese-II-sulphate 3 mg, iodine as calcium iodate, anhydrous 0.75 mg, selenium as sodium selenite 0.03 mg Technological additives: Cassia gum 1000 mg
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Meat and animal by-products”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Meat and animal by-products (50% beef, 15% chicken) | Named meat | 65% |
| fruit (4% papaya 3% coconut) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 4% |
| oils and fats (0.2% linseed oil) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 0.2% |
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Nutrition
Protein 44% and carbs about 19%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 10.5% | 44% |
| within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 6.6% | 28% |
| Carbohydrate | ~4.6% | ~19% |
| within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.3% | 1.3% |
| Ash | 2% | 8.3% |
| Moisture | 76% | taken out |
Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.
Why it scores 48
Starch scored best (13.6 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (0 of 15).
How much meat?
26.8 / 45 points- Meat on the label22.8 / 35 points
65% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level4 / 10 points
Protein is 43.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
13.6 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 19.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
8 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.
What kind of meat?
0 / 15 points- How the meat is listed0 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as an unnamed category, which earns 0% 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 wet 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 →Ingredient notes
1 noted: meat and animal by-products. 8 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 8 nothing flagged
- 1 not in our ingredient database yet
- Meat and animal by-productsCounted in “What kind of meat?”Feed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which animal or plant parts are used. It costs points under “What kind of meat?” rather than as a deduction.
8 ingredients with nothing flagged
Cassia gum, tocopherols (vitamin E)
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc
We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: iodine
Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.
Sources for these ingredients
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Cassia gum, 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)
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Cassia gum
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Fruit
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: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Sold in multipacks. Prices are for the whole pack.
Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Zooplus UK | 6 x 800g | £13.99 | £2.91/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Zooplus UK | Saver Pack: 24 x 800g | £52.99 | £2.76/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Zooplus UK | 6 x 800g | £13.99 | £2.91/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Zooplus UK | Saver Pack: 24 x 800g | £52.99 | £2.76/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Zooplus UK | 6 x 800g | £13.99 | £2.91/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Zooplus UK | Saver Pack: 24 x 800g | £52.99 | £2.76/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
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- Carbs
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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
Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.
Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.
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