

1 price from Pets at Home
Good points
- 62% meat
- Low starch, about 24% carbs
- No ingredient deductions
First ingredients: Chicken (62%), Rice (6%), Dried Carrots (1%, equivalent to 9% Carrots)… All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 62%
- Protein, dry weight
- 36%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~24%
- kcal/100 g
- 121
Ingredients
Listed first: Chicken. 62% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 62%
- Grain 6%
- Plants 2%
- No amount given 30%
Chicken (62%), Rice (6%), Dried Carrots (1%, equivalent to 9% Carrots), Dried White Potato (1%, equivalent to 5% White Potato, Naked Oats (2%), Minerals, Fish Oil (0.06%), Thyme (0.03%)
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
Additives
Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A 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: “Chicken”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken (62%) | Named meat | 62% |
| Rice (6%) | Grain | 6% |
| Dried Carrots (1%, equivalent to 9% Carrots) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 1% |
| Dried White Potato (1%, equivalent to 5% White Potato, Nake… | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 1% |
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Nutrition
Protein 36% and carbs about 24%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 9% | 36% |
| below the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 7% | 28% |
| Carbohydrate | ~6% | ~24% |
| above the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.5% | 2% |
| Ash | 2.5% | 10% |
| Moisture | 75% | 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.
Why it scores 56
The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).
How much meat?
24.4 / 45 points- Meat on the label21.7 / 35 points
62% 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%.
How much starch?
12 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 24% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
8 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.
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
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 →Ingredient notes
Nothing flagged in 17 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
17 ingredients with nothing flagged
Carrot, chicken, fish oil, minerals, oats, potato, rice, thyme, 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)Carrot, chicken, fish oil, minerals, oats, potato, rice, thyme
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Thyme, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlThyme
- 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
Equivalent to 5% white potato
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
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home1 x 395g · £1.49 up 11% since 10 Aug | 1 x 395g | £1.49 | £3.77/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 | 1 x 395g | £1.49 | £3.77/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 395g | £1.27 | £3.22/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 1 x 395g | £1.34 | £3.39/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
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- Meat
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- Carbs
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- Carbs
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- Carbs
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- To feed
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- Meat
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- Carbs
- about 11% this food about 24%
- To feed
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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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