Run Dog Food Beef - Working Dog (cold-pressed)

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Run Dog Food Beef - Working Dog (cold-pressed)

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
35/ 100
WeakTop 36% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • One animal protein: beef
  • No ingredient deductions
  • Cold-pressed, not extruded

First ingredients: Beef Protein Meal 25% Barley 25%, Pea 25%, Oats 12%, Sunflower Oil 7%, Beet Pulp… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
25%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
Not on label
kcal/100 g
Not on label

Ingredients

Listed first: Beef Protein Meal. 25% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 25%
  • Grain 37%
  • Plants 25%
  • Other 7%
  • No amount given 6%

Beef Protein Meal 25% Barley 25%, Pea 25%, Oats 12%, Sunflower Oil 7%, Beet Pulp, Yeasts and parts thereof (including Mannanoligosaccharides; Prebiotic MOS), Dried Carrot, Carnitine, Amino Acids (DL Methionine), Glucosamine (400 mg/kg), Chondroitin (300mg/kg), Yucca Shidigera, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligosaccharides and Inulin), Natural Antioxidants (mix of Vitamin E and Rosemary Extracts)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.

Additives

minerals: Calcium Iodate Anhydrous (1.5mg/kg), Sodium Selenite (0.1mg/kg), Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate (80mg/kg), Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate (8mg/kg), Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate (100mg/kg), Manganous Sulphate Monohydrate (10mg/kg). vitamins: Vitamin A - Retinyl Acetate ( 15000 IU/kg), Vitamin D3-Cholecalciferol (1400 IU/kg), Vitamin E-Alpha Tocopherol Acetate, Vitamin B1, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Folic Acid, Biotin (0.15mg/kg), Vitamin C, Choline Chloride.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Beef Protein Meal 25%”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Beef Protein Meal 25%Named meat25%
Barley 25%Grain25%
Pea 25%Vegetable, fruit or plant25%
Oats 12%Grain12%
Sunflower Oil 7%Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient7%
Beet PulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Yeasts and parts thereof (including Mannanoligosaccharides;…OtherNot given
Dried CarrotVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
CarnitineOtherNot given
Amino Acids (DL Methionine)OtherNot given
Glucosamine (400 mg/kg)OtherNot given
Chondroitin (300mg/kg)OtherNot given
Yucca ShidigeraOtherNot given
Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligo…Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Natural Antioxidants (mix of Vitamin E and Rosemary Extract…OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 27% with the water taken out.

As sold

Protein24%27% with the water taken out
Fat11%
Fibre4.5%
AshNot on label
Moisture10%
EnergyNot on label

Why it scores 35

Starch scored best (10 of 20). Meat scored lowest (9.9 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    9.9 / 45
    • Meat on the label8.8 / 35

      25% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10

      Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    10 / 20

    The label doesn’t give enough of its analysis to estimate the carbohydrate: half marks.

  3. How processed?

    10 / 20

    Cold-pressed: 10 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    6 / 15
    • How the meat is listed6 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal, which earns 50% 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 dry foods

Top 36% of dry foods. 39 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.

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Ingredient notes

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 31 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 31 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
31 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, beet pulp, biotin (vitamin H/B7), carrot, chicory root extract, choline chloride, chondroitin, folic acid (folate), glucosamine, l-carnitine, niacin (vitamin B3), oats, pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), peas, processed animal protein, sunflower oil, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), yeast

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
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Amino acids

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: Run Dog Food. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Run Dog Food12.5Kg · £50.5012.5Kg£50.50£4.04/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Run Dog Food1.5Kg · £11.451.5Kg£11.45£7.63/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).

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4 Oct 2026Run Dog Food1.5Kg£11.45£7.63/kg
4 Oct 2026Run Dog Food12.5Kg£50.50£4.04/kg
28 Sep 2026Run Dog Food1.5Kg£11.45£7.63/kg
28 Sep 2026Run Dog Food12.5Kg£50.50£4.04/kg

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Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Run Dog Food (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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