Step Up Toppers Freeze Dried Chicken & Turkey with Vegetables

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Step Up Toppers Freeze Dried Chicken & Turkey with Vegetables

Freeze-dried rawComplementary: fed with other foodAdultContains grain
47/ 100
FairWhy it scores 47

Fed with other food, not on its own.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • Freeze-dried, not extruded
  • No ingredient deductions
  • Fresh meat, named by animal

First ingredients: Potato (30%), Chicken (20%), Oats, Turkey (15%), Carrot (6%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
35%
Protein, dry weight
30%
Carbs, dry weight
~40%
kcal/100 g
348

Ingredients

Listed first: Potato. 35% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 35%
  • Plants 45%
  • No amount given 20%

Potato (30%), Chicken (20%), Oats, Turkey (15%), Carrot (6%), Peas (4%), Apple (4%), Pear (1%)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A 2500IU, Vitamin D3 250IU, Vitamin E 50mg. Trace Elements: Zinc (Zinc Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 15mg, Iron (Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 10mg, Manganese (Mangnaous Sulphate Monohydrate) 2.5mg, Copper (Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 1.5mg, Iodine (Calcium Iodate, Anhydrous) 0.1mg, Selenium (Selenised Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-3060, inactivated) 0.02mg. Antioxidants

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Potato”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Potato (30%)Vegetable, fruit or plant30%
Chicken (20%)Named meat20%
OatsGrainNot given
Turkey (15%)Named meat15%
Carrot (6%)Vegetable, fruit or plant6%
Peas (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Apple (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Pear (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%

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Nutrition

Protein 30% and carbs about 40%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein27%30%
Fat15%17%
Carbohydrate~36%~40%
Fibre8%8.9%
Ash4%4.4%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares.

Energy348 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 47

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). Meat scored lowest (14 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    14 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label12.3 / 35 points

      35% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.7 / 10 points

      Protein is 30% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    6.7 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 40% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    15 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Freeze-dried: 15 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.

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

Antioxidants, apples, carrot, chicken, oats, pear, peas, potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey

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 Home30g · £1.3930g£1.39£46.33/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home30g£1.39£46.33/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home30g£1.39£46.33/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home30g£1.39£46.33/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

3 dry foods score 36 to 47 points higher and cost up to 24% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
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Carbs
about 0% this food about 40%
To feed
29% less per 1,000 kcal

+47 pointsCompare

Meat
97.5% this food 35%
Carbs
about 0% this food about 40%
To feed
10% more per 1,000 kcal

+38 pointsCompare

Meat
97.5% this food 35%
Carbs
about 3% this food about 40%
To feed
24% more per 1,000 kcal

+36 pointsCompare

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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