Ruff's Recipes Chicken Hotpot with Lamb & Sweet Potato Wet Puppy Food

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Ruff's Recipes Chicken Hotpot with Lamb & Sweet Potato Wet Puppy Food

WetCompletePuppyGrain-free
65/ 100
GoodTop 24% of wet foods

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • 61% meat
  • Almost no starch
  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: Chicken & Lamb (61%) (Chicken 47%, Lamb (14%), Sweet Potato (4%), Dried Spinach (2%, equivalent to 4% Spinach), Minerals,… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
61%
Protein, dry weight
53%
Carbs, dry weight
~3%
kcal/100 g
93

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken & Lamb. 61% of the recipe is declared meat.

Chicken & Lamb (61%) (Chicken 47%, Lamb (14%), Sweet Potato (4%), Dried Spinach (2%, equivalent to 4% Spinach), Minerals, Linseed, Dried Herbs & Botanicals (0.2%) (Seaweed, Nettle, Rosemary, Bay, Dill, Mint, Oregano, Thyme, Chamomile, Turmeric, Reishi Mushroom, Valerian Root), Chicory (a source of Inulin), Dried Blueberry.

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Zinc (Zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate) 15.3mg, Manganese (Manganese chelate of amino acids hydrate) 3.2mg, Iodine (Calcium iodate, anhydrous) 0.5mg, Copper (Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 2.4mg.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken & Lamb”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken & Lamb (61%) (Chicken 47%, Lamb (14%), Sweet Potato…Named meat61%

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Nutrition

Protein 53% and carbs about 3%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein10%53%
above the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods
Fat6%32%
Carbohydrate~0.5%~2.6%
below the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods
Fibre0.3%1.6%
Ash2.2%12%
Moisture81%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.

Energy93 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 65

Starch scored best (19.1 of 20). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    26.8 / 45
    • Meat on the label21.4 / 35

      61% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level5.4 / 10

      Protein is 52.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    19.1 / 20

    About 2.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    8 / 20

    Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12 / 15
    • How the meat is listed12 / 12

      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

      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

Top 24% of wet foods. 37 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked wet 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.

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Ingredient notes

3 noted, none cost points: chamomile, mint and oregano. 18 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 18 nothing flagged
  • 5 not in our ingredient database yet
18 ingredients with nothing flagged

Blueberries, chicken, chicory root extract, dill, herbs, lamb, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, nettle, rosemary, spinach, sweet potato, thyme, turmeric

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, manganese, zinc

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

Sources for these ingredients
5 not in our ingredient database yet

Bay, botanicals, equivalent to 4% spinach, reishi mushroom, valerian root

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 11% since 10 Aug.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

ShopPackPricePer kg
Pets at Home1 x 150g · £1.39 up 11% since 10 Aug1 x 150g£1.39£9.27/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1 x 150g£1.39£9.27/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1 x 150g£1.18£7.87/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1 x 150g£1.25£8.33/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

2 wet foods score 5 to 8 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
75% this food 61%
Carbs
about 0% this food about 3%
To feed
74% less per 1,000 kcal

+8 pointsCompare

Meat
66% this food 61%
To feed
45% less per 1,000 kcal

+5 pointsCompare

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: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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