

1 price from Pets at Home
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- About 52% carbs (dry weight)
- Some meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Brown Rice (37.8%), poultry meat meal (min 95%), chicken (27.5%), naked oats, peas… All ingredients
Label checked- Meat
- 27.5%
- Protein, dry weight
- 27%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~52%
- kcal/100 g
- 353
Ingredients
Listed first: Brown Rice. 27.5% of the recipe is declared meat.
Brown Rice (37.8%), poultry meat meal (min 95%), chicken (27.5%), naked oats, peas, whole linseed, beet pulp, poultry fat, vitamins and minerals, herb blend (750mg/kg), MOS (500mg/kg), FOS (500mg/kg), glucosamine (350mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (150 mg/kg) seaweed (150mg/kg), yucca (100mg/kg)
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Brown Rice”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Brown Rice (37.8%) | Grain | 37.8% |
| poultry meat meal (min 95%) | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| chicken (27.5%) | Named meat | 27.5% |
| naked oats | Grain | Not given |
| peas | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| whole linseed | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| beet pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| poultry fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| vitamins and minerals | Other | Not given |
| herb blend (750mg/kg) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| MOS (500mg/kg) | Other | Not given |
| FOS (500mg/kg) | Other | Not given |
| glucosamine (350mg/kg) | Other | Not given |
| chondroitin sulphate (150 mg/kg) seaweed (150mg/kg) | Other | Not given |
| yucca (100mg/kg) | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 27% and carbs about 52%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 25% | 27% |
| within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 10% | 11% |
| Carbohydrate | ~48% | ~52% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.8% | 3% |
| Ash | 6% | 6.5% |
| Moisture | 8% | 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 27
The kind of meat scored best (8.3 of 15). Starch scored lowest (2.5 of 20).
How much meat?
10.8 / 45 points- Meat on the label9.6 / 35 points
27.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.2 / 10 points
Protein is 27.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
2.5 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 52.4% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
6 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.
What kind of meat?
8.3 / 15 points- How the meat is listed8.3 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as unnamed meal and fresh, which earns 70% 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 52% to 33% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.
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
1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 14 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 14 nothing flagged
- Yucca extractNoted, no points takenFeed material (flavouring)
Why it’s noted and sources
Added to reduce stool odour. The ASPCA lists the yucca plant as toxic to dogs, and in a dog study the extract raised a liver enzyme at 750 mg/kg of food, though not at 500. Labels rarely give the amount. We note it, but take no points off.
14 ingredients with nothing flagged
Beet pulp, chicken, chondroitin, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, herbs, linseed (flaxseed), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, oats, peas, poultry, poultry fat, rice
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)Beet pulp, chicken, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), herbs, linseed (flaxseed), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, oats, peas, poultry, poultry fat, rice
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Chondroitin, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, herbs, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), poultry, poultry fat
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
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home15kg · £43.19 up 11% since 10 Aug | 15kg | £43.19 | £2.88/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 15kg | £43.19 | £2.88/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 15kg | £40.19 | £2.68/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 15kg | £38.87 | £2.59/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
1 dry food scores 22 points higher at the same price or less.

- Meat
- 59% this food 27.5%
- Carbs
- about 33% this food about 52%
- To feed
- 46% less per 1,000 kcal
+22 points
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
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