

1 price from Pets at Home
Good points
- 66% meat
- No ingredient deductions
- High protein, 43% dry weight
Worth knowing
- Some meat not named by animal
- Added plant protein, starch or fibre
- Includes hydrolysed protein
First ingredients: Fresh Duck (48%), Chicken (18%), Blackberries (4%), Pea Flour( 3%), Hydrolysed Animal Protein (2%)… All ingredients
Retailer’s own label, fully checked- Meat
- 66%
- Protein, dry weight
- 43%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~26%
- kcal/100 g
- 91
Ingredients
Listed first: Fresh Duck. 66% of the recipe is declared meat.
- Meat 66%
- Plants 7%
- Other 3.8%
- No amount given 23.2%
Composition: Fresh Duck (48%), Chicken (18%), Blackberries (4%), Pea Flour( 3%), Hydrolysed Animal Protein (2%), Lignocellulose (1%), Salmon Oil (0.5%), Calcium Carbonate (0.3%), Dried Rosemary (0.01%)
Meat named animal protein
Additives
Vitamin D³ 190IU, Vitamin E 164IU, Biotin 0.4mg.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Fresh Duck”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh Duck (48%) | Named meat | 48% |
| Chicken (18%) | Named meat | 18% |
| Blackberries (4%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 4% |
| Pea Flour( 3%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 3% |
| Hydrolysed Animal Protein (2%) | Other | 2% |
| Lignocellulose (1%) | Other | 1% |
| Salmon Oil (0.5%) | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | 0.5% |
| Calcium Carbonate (0.3%) | Other | 0.3% |
| Dried Rosemary (0.01%) | Vegetable, fruit or plant | 0.01% |
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Nutrition
Protein 43% and carbs about 26%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 9.5% | 43% |
| within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods | ||
| Fat | 4% | 18% |
| Carbohydrate | ~5.6% | ~26% |
| above the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods | ||
| Fibre | 0.9% | 4.1% |
| Ash | 2% | 9.1% |
| Moisture | 78% | 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 (11.7 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (6 of 20).
How much meat?
27 / 45 points- Meat on the label23.1 / 35 points
66% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level3.9 / 10 points
Protein is 43.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
11.5 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 25.5% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
6 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.
What kind of meat?
11.7 / 15 points- How the meat is listed11.7 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as fresh and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 97% 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: hydrolysed proteins. 11 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 11 nothing flagged
- Hydrolysed proteinsCounted in “How processed?”Feed material (protein source)
A protein broken down by processing, often used in sensitive-stomach foods. It costs a point under “How processed?” rather than as a deduction.
11 ingredients with nothing flagged
Biotin (vitamin H/B7), blackberries, calcium carbonate, chicken, duck, lignocellulose, peas, rosemary, salmon oil, tocopherols (vitamin E)
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: 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)Blackberries, calcium carbonate, chicken, duck, lignocellulose, peas, rosemary, salmon oil
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Biotin (vitamin H/B7), blackberries, calcium carbonate, lignocellulose
- ASPCA Animal Poison ControlRosemary
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- FSA register of feed additives (GB)Rosemary
- 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 Home400g · £2.99 up 11% since 10 Aug | 400g | £2.99 | £7.47/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 | 400g | £2.99 | £7.47/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 400g | £2.54 | £6.35/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 400g | £2.69 | £6.72/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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- 68% this food 66%
- Carbs
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- Carbs
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- 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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