Skinner's Field & Trial Grain Free Salmon Working Dog Food

Name: Skinner's Field & Trial Grain Free Salmon Working Dog Food
Brand: Skinner's

DryCompleteAdultGrain-free

WeakTied 699th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

One animal protein: fish
No ingredient deductions

Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Salmon meat meal (26%), Sweet potato chips (26%), Potato flake, Vegetable oil, Peas… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 26%
Protein, dry weight: 28%
Carbs, dry weight: ~44%
kcal/100 g: 338

Ingredients

Listed first: Salmon meat meal. 26% of the recipe is declared meat.

Salmon meat meal (26%), Sweet potato chips (26%), Potato flake, Vegetable oil, Peas, Whole linseed, Brewer’s yeast, Beet pulp, Vitamins & minerals, Pea protein

Meat named animal protein

Additives

vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E (as all rac-alphatocopherol acetate), taurine, iron (as iron (II) sulphate monohydrate), iron (as iron (II) chelate of protein hydrolysates), iodine (as calcium iodate anhydrous), copper (as copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate), copper (as copper (II) chelate of hydrolysates), manganese (as manganese (II) oxide), manganese (as manganese chelate of protein hydrolysates), zinc (as zinc oxide), zinc (as zinc chelate of protein hydrolysates), selenium (as organic selenium), Herb blend, MOS/FOS, Glucosamine, Chondroitin sulphate, Seaweed, Yucca

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Salmon meat meal”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the label	We read it as	Share on the label
Salmon meat meal (26%)	Named meat	26%
Sweet potato chips (26%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	26%
Potato flake	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
Vegetable oil	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
Peas	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
Whole linseed	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
Brewer’s yeast	Other	Not given
Beet pulp	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
Vitamins & minerals	Other	Not given
Pea protein	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 44%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 10% (assumed), left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	25%	28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	13%	14%
Carbohydrate	~40%	~44%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	3%	3.3%
Ash	9%	10%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed	10%	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.

Energy338 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 26

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Meat scored lowest (10.4 of 45).

How much meat?
10.4 / 45 points
- Meat on the label9.1 / 35 points
  26% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.3 / 10 points
  Protein is 27.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.2 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 44.4% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
5 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.
What kind of meat?
6 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed6 / 12 points
  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 points
  No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

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Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Tied 699th of 1,171 dry foods. 51 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.

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 44% to 28% 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. 27 flagged nothing.

1 noted
27 nothing flagged

Yucca extractNoted, no points taken
Feed 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.
Sources

27 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beet pulp, chondroitin, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, herbs, linseed (flaxseed), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, oils and fats, peas, potato, salmon, seaweed, sweet potato, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, vitamins, yeast

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: 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