

1 price from Pets at Home
Good points
- 63% meat
- Low starch, about 13% carbs
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- Added plant protein, starch or fibre
First ingredients: Fresh Chicken (33%), Fresh Beef (26%), Venison (4%), Broth, Pumpkin (4%)… All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 63%
- Protein, dry weight
- 36%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~13%
- kcal/100 g
- 103
Ingredients
Listed first: Fresh Chicken. 63% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 63%
- Plants 8%
- Other 5.5%
- No amount given 23.5%
Composition: Fresh Chicken (33%), Fresh Beef (26%), Venison (4%), Broth, Pumpkin (4%), Apple (4%), Pea Flour, Derivatives Of Vegetable Origin (1.4%), Salmon Oil (1%), Minerals and Vitamins (0.8%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.5%), Inulin (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides 0.5%), Kale (0.5%), Lignocellulose (0.5%), Thyme (0.3%).
Meat named animal protein
Additives
Vitamin A 750IU, Vitamin D³ 200IU, Vitamin E 100IU, Vitamin B1 1mg, Taurine 800mg, Biotin 0.5mg. Preservatives
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Fresh Chicken”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh Chicken (33%) | Named meat | 33% |
| Fresh Beef (26%) | Named meat | 26% |
| Venison (4%) | Named meat | 4% |
| Broth | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Part of the item above |
| Pumpkin (4%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 4% |
| Apple (4%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 4% |
| Pea Flour | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Derivatives Of Vegetable Origin (1.4%) | A group name, not one ingredient | 1.4% |
| Salmon Oil (1%) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 1% |
| Minerals and Vitamins (0.8%) | Other | 0.8% |
| Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.5%) | Other | 0.5% |
| Inulin (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides 0.5%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.5% |
| Kale (0.5%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.5% |
| Lignocellulose (0.5%) | Other | 0.5% |
| Thyme (0.3%). | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.3% |
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Nutrition
Protein 36% and carbs about 13%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 9.3% | 36% |
| below the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 7% | 27% |
| Carbohydrate | ~3.4% | ~13% |
| within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 3.9% | 15% |
| Ash | 2.5% | 9.6% |
| Moisture | 73.9% | 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 59
The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (7 of 20).
How much meat?
24.7 / 45 points- Meat on the label22.1 / 35 points
63% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level2.6 / 10 points
Protein is 35.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
15.7 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 13% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
7 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20. Minus 1 for added plant protein, starch or fibre.
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
1 noted, no points taken: derivatives of vegetable origin. 21 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 21 nothing flagged
- Derivatives of vegetable originNoted, no points takenFeed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which plant parts are used.
21 ingredients with nothing flagged
Apples, beef, biotin (vitamin H/B7), broth (meat stock), chicken, chicory root extract, kale, lignocellulose, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, peas, preservatives, pumpkin, salmon oil, taurine, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), venison, vitamin B1 (thiamine)
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
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)Apples, beef, broth (meat stock), chicken, chicory root extract, kale, lignocellulose, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, peas, preservatives, pumpkin, salmon oil, thyme, venison
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Apples, biotin (vitamin H/B7), chicory root extract, kale, lignocellulose, mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), preservatives, pumpkin, taurine, thyme, venison, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin A (retinyl acetate)
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlThyme
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
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 Home300g · £2.99 up 11% since 10 Aug | 300g | £2.99 | £9.97/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 | 300g | £2.99 | £9.97/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 300g | £2.54 | £8.47/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 300g | £2.69 | £8.97/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
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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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