Step Up To Naturals Big Love Beefy Stew Wet Adult Dog Food Tray

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Step Up To Naturals Big Love Beefy Stew Wet Adult Dog Food Tray

WetCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil
57/ 100
FairTied 414th of 639 wet foods

21% of wet foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 61% meat
  • Low starch, about 20% carbs
  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: Beef (45%), Chicken (16%), Rice (6%), Dried White Potato (1%, equivalent to 5% White Potato)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
61%
Protein, dry weight
36%
Carbs, dry weight
~20%
kcal/100 g
126

Ingredients

Listed first: Beef. 61% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 61%
  • Grain 8%
  • Plants 2%
  • Other 0.1%
  • No amount given 28.9%

Beef (45%), Chicken (16%), Rice (6%), Dried White Potato (1%, equivalent to 5% White Potato), Dried Peas (1%, equivalent to 4% Peas), Naked Oats (2%), Minerals, Fish Oil (0.05%), Rosemary (0.03%)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A 2,250IU, Vitamin D3 328IU, Vitamin E 26mg; Trace Elements: Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate 24mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 12.5mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 2.5mg, Manganese (as Manganous Sulphate Monohydrate) 2mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 0.45mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.04mg

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Beef”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Beef (45%)Named meat45%
Chicken (16%)Named meat16%
Rice (6%)Grain6%
Dried White Potato (1%, equivalent to 5% White Potato)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Dried Peas (1%, equivalent to 4% Peas)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Naked Oats (2%)Grain2%
MineralsOtherNot given
Fish Oil (0.05%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.05%
Rosemary (0.03%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.03%

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Nutrition

Protein 36% and carbs about 20%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein9%36%
below the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods
Fat8%32%
Carbohydrate~5%~20%
within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods
Fibre0.5%2%
Ash2.5%10%
Moisture75%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.

Energy126 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 57

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    24.1 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label21.4 / 35 points

      61% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.7 / 10 points

      Protein is 36% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    13.3 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 20% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    8 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed12 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% 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 wet foods

Tied 414th of 639 wet foods. 26 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked wet 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

Nothing flagged in 18 ingredients.

18 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beef, chicken, fish oil, minerals, oats, peas, potato, rice, rosemary, 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

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.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home12 x 395g · £13.8912 x 395g£13.89£2.93/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home1 x 395g · £1.49 up 11% since 10 Aug1 x 395g£1.49£3.77/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1 x 395g£1.49£3.77/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12 x 395g£13.89£2.93/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1 x 395g£1.27£3.22/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12 x 395g£13.89£2.93/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1 x 395g£1.34£3.39/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12 x 395g£13.89£2.93/kg

Your dog

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Alternatives

1 wet food scores 14 points higher and costs up to 12% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
70% this food 61%
Carbs
about 3% this food about 20%
To feed
12% more per 1,000 kcal

+14 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.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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