Wellness Core Complete Senior Dry Dog Food Turkey with Chicken

2 prices from Pets at Home

Wellness Core Complete Senior Dry Dog Food Turkey with Chicken

DryCompleteSeniorGrain-freeFish oil
40/ 100
WeakTop 20% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Turkey 28% (Fresh Turkey 16%, Dehydrated Turkey 12%), Chicken 24% (Dehydrated Chicken 16%, Chicken Gravy 5%, Chicken Fat 3%)… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
44%
Protein, dry weight
37%
Carbs, dry weight
~37%
kcal/100 g
340

Ingredients

Listed first: Turkey. 44% of the recipe is declared meat.

Turkey 28% (Fresh Turkey 16%, Dehydrated Turkey 12%), Chicken 24% (Dehydrated Chicken 16%, Chicken Gravy 5%, Chicken Fat 3%), Peas 16%, Dried Potatoes, Beet Pulp 4%, Potato Protein, Linseed 3%, Lignocellulose, Salmon Oil 1%, Carrots, Apples, Yeast Extract (source of mannan-oligosaccharides) 0,5%, Dried Chicory Root (source of Fructo-oligo-saccharides and Inulin) 0,5%, D-Glucosamine Hydrochloride 200 mg/kg, Chondroitin Sulphate 200 mg/kg, Broccoli, Spinach, Tomatoes, Blueberries, Cranberries 0,01%, Dried Peppermint, Yucca Schidigera, Mixed Herbs (Dried Rosemary, Dried Turmeric, Dried Citrus, Dried Eugenia)

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Vitamin A 14000 IU, Vitamin D3 1000 IU, Vitamin E 120 mg, Taurine 1500 mg, L-Carnitine 100 mg, Zinc (Zinc sulphate, monohydrate 100 mg), Iron (Ferrous sulphate, monohydrate) 100 mg, Copper (Cupric sulphate, pentahydrate) 7,5 mg, Manganese (Manganous sulphate, monohydrate) 5 mg, Iodine (Calcium iodate, anhydrous) 1,5 mg Natural Antioxidants Bentonite (montmorillonite) 1200 mg. Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 10415, 109 cfu - Helps establish and maintain bacterial balance within the intestinal tract of dogs

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Turkey 28%”. 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
Turkey 28% (Fresh Turkey 16%, Dehydrated Turkey 12%)Named meat28%
Chicken 24% (Dehydrated Chicken 16%, Chicken Gravy 5%, Chic…Named meat24%
Peas 16%Vegetable, fruit or plant16%
Dried PotatoesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Beet Pulp 4%Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Potato ProteinVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Linseed 3%Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
LignocelluloseOtherNot given
Salmon Oil 1%Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
CarrotsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
ApplesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Yeast Extract (source of mannan-oligosaccharides) 0.5%Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.5%
Dried Chicory Root (source of Fructo-oligo-saccharides and …Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
D-Glucosamine Hydrochloride 200 mg/kgOtherNot given
Chondroitin Sulphate 200 mg/kgOtherNot given
BroccoliVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
SpinachVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
TomatoesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
BlueberriesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Cranberries 0.01%Vegetable, fruit or plant0.01%

8% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

Read automatically from the label. Spotted a misreading? Tell us

Nutrition

Protein 37% and carbs about 37%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein33%37%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11%12%
Carbohydrate~33%~37%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre4.5%5%
Ash8%8.9%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%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.

Energy340 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 40

The kind of meat scored best (9.7 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    18.2 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label15.4 / 35 points

      44% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.8 / 10 points

      Protein is 36.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    7.6 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 37.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.7 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.7 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 81% 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

Top 20% of dry foods. 25 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 37% to 24% by dry weight, and protein is about 41%.

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

2 noted, none cost points: mint and yucca extract. 32 flagged nothing.

  • 2 noted
  • 32 nothing flagged
32 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, beet pulp, blueberries, broccoli, carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, chondroitin, cranberries, glucosamine, herbs, l-carnitine, lignocellulose, linseed (flaxseed), peas, potato, probiotic cultures, salmon oil, spinach, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato, turkey, vegetable protein extracts, yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, 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. Up 16% since 10 Aug.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home10kg · £51.99 up 16% since 10 Aug10kg£51.99£5.20/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home1.8kg · £14.29 up 19% since 10 Aug1.8kg£14.29£7.94/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 19%.

Show the chart
View the readings as a table
Every reading we have, newest first
DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1.8kg£14.29£7.94/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home10kg£51.99£5.20/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1.8kg£12.86£7.14/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home10kg£46.79£4.68/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1.8kg£12.05£6.69/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home10kg£44.99£4.50/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 6 to 20 points higher and cost up to 12% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78% this food 44%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 37%
To feed
19% less per 1,000 kcal

+20 pointsCompare

Meat
76% this food 44%
Carbs
about 26% this food about 37%
To feed
12% more per 1,000 kcal

+19 pointsCompare

Meat
72% this food 44%
Carbs
about 41% this food about 37%
To feed
18% less per 1,000 kcal

+12 pointsCompare

Meat
43.5% this food 44%
Price
7% less per kg

+6 pointsCompare

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Matches the maker’s own page.

Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

Report a mistake

Tell us about your dog

Saved only in this browser. Your dog’s details are never sent to us or to any retailer.

Picking a breed suggests a typical adult weight; you can still adjust it below.
What do they eat?Pick the types to look at. Leave blank to see every type.
Anything to leave out?Checked against the whole ingredient list.
What matters most?Foods the maker made for it come first.