

2 prices from Pets at Home
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- About 49% carbs (dry weight)
- Some meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Meat and Bone Meal (16% incl. Beef 8%), Rice, Whole Barley (16%), Maize, Dried Peas (8%)… All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 20%
- Protein, dry weight
- 24%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~49%
- kcal/100 g
- 363
Ingredients
Listed first: Meat and Bone Meal. 20% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 20%
- Grain 20%
- Plants 10%
- Other 5.5%
- No amount given 44.5%
Meat and Bone Meal (16% incl. Beef 8%), Rice, Whole Barley (16%), Maize, Dried Peas (8%), Poultry Meal, Poultry Fat (5%), Lamb Meal (4%), Whole Grain Oats (4%), Poultry Gravy, Beet Pulp, Dried Apple (1% equivalent to 6.5% Apple), Dried Sweet Potato (1% equivalent to 3% Sweet Potato), Minerals, Salmon Oil (0.5%), Dried Chicory
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
Nutritional Additives: Vitamins: Vitamin A 15,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,500IU, Vitamin E 100mg; Trace Elements: Zinc (as Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate) 50mg, Iron (as Iron (ll) Sulphate Monohydrate) 40mg, Manganese (as Manganese (ll) Oxide) 30mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 8mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 1.5mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.15mg
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Meat and Bone Meal”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Meat and Bone Meal (16% incl. Beef 8%) | Named meat | 16% |
| Rice | Grain | Not given |
| Whole Barley (16%) | Grain | 16% |
| Maize | Grain | Not given |
| Dried Peas (8%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 8% |
| Poultry Meal | Meat, animal not named | Not given |
| Poultry Fat (5%) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 5% |
| Lamb Meal (4%) | Named meat | 4% |
| Whole Grain Oats (4%) | Grain | 4% |
| Poultry Gravy | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Beet Pulp | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Dried Apple (1% equivalent to 6.5% Apple) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 1% |
| Dried Sweet Potato (1% equivalent to 3% Sweet Potato) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 1% |
| Minerals | Other | Not given |
| Salmon Oil (0.5%) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 0.5% |
| Dried Chicory | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 24% and carbs about 49%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 22% | 24% |
| below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 11% | 12% |
| Carbohydrate | ~44% | ~49% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 3.5% | 3.9% |
| Ash | 9.5% | 11% |
| 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.
Why it scores 22
The kind of meat scored best (5.5 of 15). Meat scored lowest (7.7 of 45).
How much meat?
7.7 / 45 points- Meat on the label7 / 35 points
20% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level0.7 / 10 points
Protein is 24.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
3.7 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 48.9% 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?
5.5 / 15 points- How the meat is listed5.5 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as meal and unnamed meal, which earns 46% 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 49% to 30% by dry weight, and protein is about 38%.
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 24 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
24 ingredients with nothing flagged
Apples, barley, beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicory root extract, lamb, maize (corn), minerals, oats, peas, poultry, poultry fat, rice, salmon oil, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E)
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
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Apples, barley, beet pulp, broth (meat stock), chicory root extract, lamb, maize (corn), minerals, oats, peas, poultry, poultry fat, rice, salmon oil, sweet potato
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Apples, barley, chicory root extract, poultry, poultry fat, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- 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
Meat and bone meal
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 | 14kg | £28.99 | £2.07/kg |
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 2kg | £5.39 | £2.69/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 14kg | £24.64 | £1.76/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 2kg | £4.58 | £2.29/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 14kg | £26.09 | £1.86/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 2kg | £4.85 | £2.42/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
1 dry food scores 27 points higher at the same price or less.

- Meat
- 59% this food 20%
- Carbs
- about 33% this food about 49%
- To feed
- 23% less per 1,000 kcal
+27 points
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.
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