ZIWI Original Canned Wet Chicken Recipe for dogs

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ZIWI Original Canned Wet Chicken Recipe for dogs

WetCompleteAdultGrain-free
68/ 100

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

Good points

  • 69% meat
  • Low starch, about 7% carbs
  • One animal protein: chicken

First ingredients: 66% Chicken and Chicken Organs (including Chicken, Liver, Heart, Bone), Chickpeas, 3% New Zealand Green Mussel, Minerals… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
69%
Protein, dry weight
41%
Carbs, dry weight
~7%
kcal/100 g
84

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken and Chicken Organs. 69% of the recipe is declared meat.

66% Chicken and Chicken Organs (including Chicken, Liver, Heart, Bone), Chickpeas, 3% New Zealand Green Mussel, Minerals, Dried Kelp

Meat named animal protein

From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.

Additives

per kg: Vitamin D3 695 IU, Zinc (as Zinc Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 34 mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 3.7 mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Chelate of Glycine Hydrate) 20 mg, Manganese (as Manganese Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 3.3 mg.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “66% Chicken and Chicken Organs”. 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
66% Chicken and Chicken Organs (including Chicken, Liver, H…Named meat66%
ChickpeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
3% New Zealand Green MusselNamed meat3%
MineralsOtherNot given
Dried KelpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Nutritional Additives (OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 41% and carbs about 7%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein9%41%
within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods
Fat5.5%25%
Carbohydrate~1.5%~6.8%
below the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods
Fibre2%9.1%
Ash4%18%
Moisture78%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.

Energy84 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 68

The kind of meat scored best (15 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    27.7 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label24.2 / 35 points

      69% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level3.5 / 10 points

      Protein is 40.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    17.7 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 6.8% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    8 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    15 / 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 meat3 / 3 points

      Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other wet foods

Top 9% of wet foods. 20 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked wet 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.

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Ingredient notes

Nothing flagged in 9 ingredients.

9 ingredients with nothing flagged

Chicken, chickpeas, green-lipped mussel, minerals

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iron, manganese, 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: ZIWI. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

Sold in multipacks. Prices are for the whole pack.

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
ZIWI390g (Case of 12) · £56.19390g (Case of 12)£56.19£12.01/kgCheapest in stockVisit
ZIWI170g (Case of 12) · £38.19170g (Case of 12)£38.19£18.72/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026ZIWI170g (Case of 12)£38.19£18.72/kg
4 Oct 2026ZIWI390g (Case of 12)£56.19£12.01/kg
28 Sep 2026ZIWI170g (Case of 12)£38.19£18.72/kg
28 Sep 2026ZIWI390g (Case of 12)£56.19£12.01/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

3 wet foods score 5 to 15 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
100% this food 69%
Carbs
about 4% this food about 7%
To feed
52% less per 1,000 kcal

+15 pointsCompare

Meat
72% this food 69%
Carbs
about 0% this food about 7%
To feed
42% less per 1,000 kcal

+9 pointsCompare

Meat
75% this food 69%
Carbs
about 4% this food about 7%
To feed
65% less per 1,000 kcal

+5 pointsCompare

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

Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: ZIWI (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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