

2 prices from Pets at Home
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Meat amount not given
- About 60% carbs (dry weight)
- Meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Maize, wheat, poultry meat meal, barley, poultry fat… All ingredients
Ingredients match the maker’s own page- Meat
- Not on label
- Protein, dry weight
- 20%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~60%
- kcal/100 g
- 358
Ingredients
Listed first: Maize. The label gives no meat figure.
Maize, wheat, poultry meat meal, barley, poultry fat, beet pulp, vitamins & minerals, joint aid supplement
Meat animal not namedGrain cereals
Additives
None Stated; Vitamins: vitamin A 17500iu, vitamin D3 2000iu, vitamin E (as all rac-alphatocopherol acetate) 200mg; Trace Elements: iron (as iron (II) sulphate monohydrate) 10mg, iodine (as calcium iodate anhydrous) 1.5mg, copper (as copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate) 7mg, manganese (as manganese (II) oxide) 50mg, zinc (as zinc oxide) 90mg, selenium (as sodium selenite) 0.1mg Contains antioxidants & preservatives
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Maize”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Maize | Grain | Not given |
| wheat | Grain | Not given |
| poultry meat meal | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| barley | Grain | Not given |
| poultry fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| beet pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| vitamins & minerals | Other | Not given |
| joint aid supplement | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 20% and carbs about 60%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 18% | 20% |
| below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 11% | 12% |
| Carbohydrate | ~55% | ~60% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2.6% | 2.8% |
| Ash | 5.6% | 6.1% |
| 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 17
How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). Starch scored lowest (0.1 of 20).
How much meat?
8.8 / 45 points- Meat on the label8.8 / 35 points
Meat is listed without saying which animal, and the label doesn’t say how much, so a quarter of the points.
- Protein level0 / 10 points
Protein is 19.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
0.1 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 59.6% 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?
3 / 15 points- How the meat is listed3 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as unnamed meal, which earns 25% 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 60% to 37% by dry weight, and protein is about 35%.
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 17 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
17 ingredients with nothing flagged
Barley, beet pulp, maize (corn), minerals, poultry, poultry fat, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamins, wheat
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
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Barley, poultry, poultry fat, vitamins, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Barley, beet pulp, maize (corn), minerals, poultry, poultry fat, wheat
- 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)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Joint aid supplement
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
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 | £35.99 | £2.40/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 2.5kg | £7.59 | £3.04/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 15kg | £32.39 | £2.16/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 2.5kg | £6.83 | £2.73/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 15kg | £32.39 | £2.16/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 2.5kg | £6.83 | £2.73/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
1 dry food scores 32 points higher at the same price or less.

- Carbs
- about 33% this food about 60%
- To feed
- 35% less per 1,000 kcal
+32 points
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Matches the maker’s own page.
Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.
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