Wellness Core Large Adult Original Dry Dog Food

1 price from Zooplus UK

Wellness Core Large Adult Original Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-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

First ingredients: Chicken (57%) (incl. fresh chicken (25%), dehydrated chicken (18%), dried chicken protein (5%), chicken gravy (5%), chicken fat… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
46%
Protein, dry weight
37%
Carbs, dry weight
~38%
kcal/100 g
347

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 46% of the recipe is declared meat.

Chicken (57%) (incl. fresh chicken (25%), dehydrated chicken (18%), dried chicken protein (5%), chicken gravy (5%), chicken fat (4%), peas, dried potatoes, linseed (3%), beet pulp (3%), salmon oil (2%), carrots (0.5%), apples (0.5%), dried chicory root (source of fructo-oligo-saccharides and inulin) (0.5%), yeast extract (source of mannan-oligosaccharides) (0.5%), D-glucosamine hydrochloride (400mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (300mg/kg), broccoli, spinach, tomatoes, cranberries, blueberries (0.01%), yucca schidigera, mixed herbs (dried rosemary, dried turmeric, dried citrus, dried eugenia)

Meat named animal protein

Additives

per kg: Vitamin A (14,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1000 IU), vitamin E (120mg), taurine (1500mg), L-carnitine (150mg), zinc [as zinc sulphate, monohydrate] (100mg), iron [as ferrous sulphate, monohydrat] (100mg), copper [as cupric sulphate, pentahydrate] (7.5mg), manganese [as manganous sulphate, monohydrate] (5.0mg), iodine [as calcium iodate, anhydrous] (1.5mg). Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 10415, 109 cfu - helps to establish and maintain bacterial balance within the intestinal tract of dogs. Natural antioxidants, bentonite (montmorillonite) (1200mg).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken”. 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
Chicken (57%) (incl. fresh chicken (25%), dehydrated chicke…Named meat57%

11% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 37% and carbs about 38%, 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
Fat13%14%
Carbohydrate~34%~38%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.5%3.9%
Ash6%6.7%
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.

Energy347 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 40

The kind of meat scored best (8.4 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    18.9 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label16.1 / 35 points

      46% 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?

    7.2 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 38.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.4 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed8.4 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as dried, which earns 70% 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 Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 38% to 24% by dry weight, and protein is about 45%.

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

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 33 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 33 nothing flagged
  • 2 not in our ingredient database yet
33 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, beet pulp, blueberries, broccoli, broth (meat stock), carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, chondroitin, citrus pulp, cranberries, glucosamine, herbs, l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), peas, potato, poultry fat, probiotic cultures, salmon oil, spinach, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato, turmeric, 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
2 not in our ingredient database yet

Bentonite, bentonite montmorillonite

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: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Zooplus UK10kg · £44.2910kg£44.29£4.43/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK10kg£44.29£4.43/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK10kg£44.29£4.43/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK10kg£44.29£4.43/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 11 to 20 points higher and cost up to 21% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78% this food 46%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 38%
To feed
3% less per 1,000 kcal

+20 pointsCompare

Meat
73% this food 46%
Carbs
about 24% this food about 38%
To feed
20% less per 1,000 kcal

+17 pointsCompare

Meat
74% this food 46%
Carbs
about 27% this food about 38%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+17 pointsCompare

Meat
60% this food 46%
Carbs
about 30% this food about 38%
To feed
21% more per 1,000 kcal

+11 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: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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