The Dry Dog Food Index

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Hello! A little birdie has told me this Index is quite popular here, so I thought I'd copy it over here to save a trip to Petforums!

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I’ve based the below information on a 15kg adult dog, living in a home environment with moderate activity levels, and all prices are approximate and based on purchasing the largest pack size available.

I have gathered the information from packet labels, websites and by contacting the manufacturers directly, and it’s as accurate as I can possibly make it – bare in mind that prices vary depending on where the food is purchased, and ingredients do change from time to time.

I have loosely grouped the foods into three colour coded groups.

Green – these are the dry foods that I consider to be of exceptional quality. They have a very high meat content and little or no grains.

Orange - these are “middle of the road” foods. The quality varies immensely within this group, but I feel they all offer a good quality basic diet for normal healthy dogs, with a decent meat content and reasonable ingredients.

Red – these foods are the ones that I feel are extremely poor, and that should be avoided. They tend to have either an inadequate meat content, too many cheap fillers, artificial additives, harmful chemicals, added sugar – or a mixture of all of those!

I MUST STRESS THIS IS MERELY MY OPINION
Of course, we won't all agree on what is a good food and what isn't.
I am neither a vet nor a canine nutritionist.​

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ACANA (grasslands variety)

Price (13.5kg): £61.99
Suggested daily amount: 175g
Daily feeding cost: 80p

Ingredients: Fresh lamb meat, dried lamb meat, salmon, dried herring meat, russet potatoes, peas, chicken fat, sweet potato, fresh boneless walleye sun dried alfalfa, natural lamb flavor, deboned fresh duck, whole eggs, squash, turnip greens, tomatoes, carrots, apples, organic kelp, cranberries, blueberries, juniper berries, black currants, chicory root, licorice root, angelica, fenugreek, marigold flowers, fennel, peppermint leaves, chamomile flowers, lavender, summer savory, rosemary, lactobacillus acidophilus, enterococcus faecium.

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ALMO NATURE (holistic, medium breed)

Price (12kg): £39.90
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 66p

Ingredients: Brown rice (26%), fresh chicken (24%), maize gluten meal, chicken oil, beet pulp, sunflower oil, alfalfa, salmon oil, yeast, marigold, yucca extract, green tea extract, grape seed extract, minerals, vitamins.


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ALPHA (maintenance, beef)

Price (15kg): £12.45
Suggested daily amount: 280g
Daily feeding cost: 23p

Ingredients: Wheat, wheatfeed, beef meal, maize, fish meal, poultry fat, minerals, vitamins, preservatives.

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APPLAWS (small/medium breed, chicken)

Price (12.5kg): £44.99
Suggested daily amount: 165g
Daily feeding cost: 59p

Ingredients: Dry chicken meat, dry potato, poultry oil, fresh chicken, poultry gravy, salmon oil, beet pulp, dry whole eggs, cellulose plant fibre, brewers dried yeast, cranberry extract, yucca extract, citrus extract, rosemary oil extract, seaweed extract, chicory extract, suncured alfalfa extract, thyme extract, carrots, peppermint extract, rosehip extract, paprika extract, turmeric extract, carob extract, fennel extract, dandelion extract, oregano extract.

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ARDEN GRANGE (lamb & rice)

Price (15kg): £30.33
Suggested daily amount: 230g
Daily feeding cost: 46p

Ingredients: Lamb meat meal (min 30%), rice (min 26%), maize, chicken fat, beet pulp, dried brewers yeast, egg powder, fish meal, linseed, fish oil, minerals, vitamins, nucleotides, prebiotic FOS, prebiotic MOS, cranberry extract, chondroitin sulphate, glucosamine sulphate, MSM, yucca extract.

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ARDEN GRANGE (sensitive, ocean white fish & potato)

Price (15kg): £39.99
Suggested daily amount: 220g
Daily feeding cost: 58p

Ingredients: Potato (min 42%), white fishmeal (haddock] min 26%), beet pulp, chicken oil, linseed, fish oil, dried brewers yeast, egg powder, minerals, vitamins, nucleotides, prebiotic FOS, prebiotic MOS, cranberry extract, chondroitin sulphate, glucosamine sulphate, MSM, yucca extract

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ARKWRIGHTS (beef)

Price (15kg): £13.52
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 27p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (min 4% beef), minerals, oils and fats, BHA, BHT.

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ASHENBANK (lamb casserole)

Price (15kg): £38.99
Suggested daily amount 230g
Daily feeding cost: 59p

Ingredients:Potato (min 41%), fresh lamb (min 24%), lamb meal (min 21%), potato protein, peas, sunflower oil, lamb fat, whole linseed, pea fibre, lamb digest, minerals, vitamins, L-carnitine, carrot flakes, DL-methionine, cranberry, manno-oligosaccharides, fructo-oligosaccharides, glucosamine, MSM, yucca schidigera extract, chondroitin, beta-carotene

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AUTARKY (chicken with rice, vegetables & herbs)

Price (15kg): £18.99
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 37p

Ingredients: Maize, chicken meat meal (28%), rice, chicken fat, carrot and green leaf veg, (min 4%), whole linseed, beet pulp, prairie meal, mixed herbs and spices, yucca, yeast

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AUTARKY (salmon dinner with rice, vegetables & herbs)

Price (15kg): £25.50
Suggested daily amount: 190g
Daily feeding cost: 32p

Ingredients:Salmon (min 35%), rice (min 33%), oats, chicken fat, yeast, full-fat linseed, alfalfa, prairie meal, peas, unmolassed beet pulp, dicalcium phosphate, mannanoligosaccharides, milkthistle, marigold, mnettle, seaweed, blackcurrant extract, carrot, yucca extract, thyme, beetroot, tomato, peppermint, fennel, paprika, turmeric, dandelion, ginger, fenugreek, roesmary extract, oregano and aloe vera (min 0.4% herbs, min 4% vegetables).

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BAKERS COMPLETE (bacon, liver & vegetables)

Price (15kg): £28.60
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 57p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (min 4% fresh meat), vegetable protein extracts, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin, various sugars, minerals, vegetables (min 4%), EC permitted additives and colourings.

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BAKERS MEATY MEALS (lamb)

Price (3kg): £7.69
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 76p

Ingredients:Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (26% meat of which 4% lamb), various sugars, vegetable protein extracts, oils, fats, minerals.

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BARKING HEADS (''Good Hair Day'', lamb & rice)

Price (12kg): £37.88
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 63p

Ingredients: Boneless lamb, dried lamb (total lamb 50%), brown rice, oats, barley, trout, lamb fat, natural flavours, lucerne, seaweed, tomato, glucosamine, chondroitin

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BOB & LUSH (duck with potato & peas)

Price (7.5kg): £39.99
Suggested daily amount: 230g
Daily feeding cost: £1.24

Ingredients: Fresh duck (24%), duck meal (24%), potatoes (22%), peas (9%), sugar beet pulp (7%), duck fat (6%), duck digest (3%), brewers yeast (2%), linseed (2%), minerals, vitamins, yucca schidigera extract (0.5%), prebiotics MOS (0.2%), FOS (0.2%)

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BREEDERPACK (working dog)

Price (15kg): £10.50
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 11p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetable protein extracts, oils and fats, various sugars, minerals, yeasts, EEC permitted antioxidants, preservatives and colourants

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BURGESS SUPADOG (rich in beef)

Price (15kg): £17.99
Suggested daily amount: 260g
Daily feeding cost: 31p

Ingredients: Wheat, beef meal (min 14%), wheat feed, chicken meal, poultry fat, peas, salt, calcium carbonate, monocalcium phosphate, preservative potassium sorbate, coloured with sunset yellow, tartrazine, ponceau 4R, iron oxide, titanium dioxide, patent blue V

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BURGESS SUPADOG (sensitive, lamb & rice)

Price (12.5kg): £24.99
Suggested daily amount: 260g
Daily feeding cost: 52p

Ingredients: Lamb meal (26%), rice (26%), beet pulp, poultry fat, salt, vitamins.

 

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BURNS (fish & rice)

Price (15kg): £43.99
Suggested daily amount: 150g
Daily feeding cost: 43p

Ingredients: Brown rice (min 63%), fish (min 18%), oats, peas, fish oil, sunflower oil, seaweed, minerals, vitamins.

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BURNS (chicken & maize)

Price (15kg): £42.20
Suggested daily amount: 150g
Daily feeding cost: 42p

Ingredients:Maize (min 70%), chicken meal (min 16%), peas, chicken oil, seaweed, minerals, vitamins.

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CANAGAN (chicken)

Price (12kg): £52.99
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 88p

Ingredients: Freshly prepared deboned chicken (26%), dried chicken (25%), sweet potato, peas, potato, pea protein, alfalfa, chicken fat (3.1%), dried egg (3.1%), chicken gravy (1.6%), salmon oil (1.2%), minerals, vitamins, glucosamine, MSM, apple, carrot, spinach, psyllium, seaweed, fructooligosaccharides, chondroitin, camomile, peppermint, marigold, cranberry, aniseed, fenugreek.

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CHAPPIE (original)

Price (15kg): £18.79
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 31p

Ingredients: Cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal derivatives, oils and fats, minerals.

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CHUDLEYS (working classic)

Price (15kg): £16
Suggested daily amount: 220g
Daily feeding cost: 23p

Ingredients:Wheat, chicken meat meal, maize, chicken fat, barley, rice, chicken liver, full fat soya, unmolassed beet pulp, dicalcium phosphate, yeast, salmon oil, blackcurrant extract, taurine, seaweed, with EC permitted antioxidants; mixed tocopherols, vitamin C and rosemary extract
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COLLARDS (turkey & rice)

Price (12kg): £39.95
Suggested daily amount: 270g
Daily feeding cost: 90p

Ingredients:: Rice (40%), turkey meal (min 26%), wholegrain barley (14%), linseed, sugar beetpulp, poultry oil, hydrolised poultry digest, dried alfalfa, natural seaweed, chicory root extract, sodium chloride, potassium chlrodie, methionine, marigold extract, rosemary extract

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CSJ (champ)

Price (15kg): £10.75
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 21p

Ingredients: Wheat, beef & lamb meal, maize, chicken fat, chicken liver, unmolassed beet pulp, alfalfa, salmon oil, salt, yucca schidigera

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CSJ (No Grainer)

Price (15kg): £35
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 58p

Ingredients: Tripe (26%), potato, poultry meal, chicken fat, duck meal, chicken liver, peas, salmon meal (4%), unmolassed beet pulp, alfalfa, carrot, full fat linseed, yeast, apple, cellulose, nettle, seaweed, mannan oligosaccharides, milk thistle, marigold, tomato, glucosamine, dandelion, celery, burdock root, devils claw root, yucca schidigera, blackcurrant, green lipped mussel (100mg/kg), kale, beetroot, rosemary.

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DAVIES (ranger, chicken & rice)

Price (15kg): £28.91
Suggested daily amount: 240g
Daily feeding cost: 46p

Ingredients: Chicken, rice, maize, chicken meat meal, chicken fat, sugar beet fibre, fish meal, vitamins, minerals, chicken digest, dried yeast, yucca meal.

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DENES (healthy skin option, rich in chicken, turkey & rice with added herbs)

Price (15kg): £35.35
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 58p

Ingredients: Maize, poultry meat meal (chicken min 14%, turkey min 4%), rice (min 15%), chicken oil, linseed, vitamins, minerals, fish oil, brewers yeast, whole egg powder, alfalfa, cleavers, marshmallow root powder, celery seed, fenugreek, chondroitin sulphate, methylsulphonylmethane (MSM), glucosamine sulphate, rosemary oil

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DR JOHN SILVER MEDAL (chicken)

Price (15kg): £9.50
Suggested daily amount: 290g
Daily feeding cost: 18p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives, minerals, oils and fats, ECC additives.

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EARTHBORN HOLISTIC (primitive natural)

Price (15kg): ?
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: ?

Ingredients: Turkey meal, chicken meal, whitefish meal, potatoes, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols), dried egg product, tomato pomace, peas, blueberry fibre, cranberry fibre, apples, blueberries, carrots, spinach, cranberries, potassium chloride, choline chloride, DL-cethionine, L-lysine, taurine, beta-carotene, L-carnitine, vitamin A supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin E supplement, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, niacin, folic ccid, biotin, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, salt, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate, zinc proteinate, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, cobalt carbonate, vitamin B12 supplement, yucca schidgera extract, rosemary extract, dried lactobacillus plantarum fermentation product, dried enterococcus faecium fermentation product, dried lactobacillus casei fermentation product, dried lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product.

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EDEN (holistic, multi-meat and fish formula)

Price (15kg): £49.99
Suggested daily amount: 220g
Daily feeding cost: 73p

Ingredients: Chicken (19%), dried chicken (17%), salmon (16%), dried herring (14%), potato (10%), sweet potato (5%), chicken fat (5%), dried duck (4%), whole dried egg (3%), chicken gravy (2%), white fish (2%), lucerne, pea fibre, mineral, vitamins, carrot, spinach, apple, joint support pack (glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin), rosehips, camomile, burdock root, aniseed, fenugreek, mixed herbs (thyme, marjoram, oregano, sage) seaweed, cranberry, prebiotic FOS

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EUKANUBA (medium breed, chicken)

Price (15kg): £48.99
Suggested daily amount: 150g
Daily feeding cost: 49p

Ingredients: Chicken (24%), maize, wheat, animal fat, sorghum, barley, poultry meal, dried beet pulp, chicken digest, dried whole egg, brewers dried yeast, potassium chloride, salt, sodium hexametaphosphate, fish oil, linseed, DL-methionine, EC permitted antioxidants

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EUROPA (chicken & rice)

Price (15kg): £38
Suggested daily amount: 275g
Daily feeding cost: 70p

Ingredients: Rice (46%), poultry meal (20%), maize, chicken fat, brewers yeast, sugar beet, linseed, seaweed, sunflower oil, vitamins, minerals, yucca extract.

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FISH4DOGS (finest fish)

Price (12kg): £48.50
Suggested daily amount: 205g
Daily feeding cost: 83p

Ingredients: Fresh fish (30.5%), potato (30.5%), herring meal (21%), salmon oil, beet fibre, brewers yeast, minerals, vitamins.

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FISHMONGERS (salmon & potato)

Price (10kg): £29.99
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 74p

Ingredients: Salmon meal (min 27%), potato (min 27%), salmon (min 24%), salmon Oil (min 9%), sugar beet pulp, salmon digest (min 2%), minerals, brewers yeast, potassium chloride, methionine, mannan-oligosaccharides, fructo-oligosaccharides, yucca extract, l-carnitine, beta carotene.

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FROLIC (moist meaty ringos with poultry)

Price (7.5kg): £18.64
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 74p

Ingredients: Cereals (min 4% rice), derivatives of vegetable origin, meat and animal Derivatives (min 4% poultry), oils, fats, vegetables (min 4% carrots), minerals, milk and milk derivatives, various sugars.

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GELERT COUNTRY CHOICE (premium range, lamb & rice)

Price (15kg): £29.95
Suggested daily amount: 225g
Daily feeding cost: 45p

Ingredients:Lamb meat meal (min 35%), rice (min 30%) maize, barley, chicken oil, dried brewers yeast, salmon oil, vitamins, minerals, mannan-oigosaccharide, glucosamine, chondroitin.

 

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GILPA (super value mix)

Price (15kg): £17.41
Suggested daily amount: 320g
Daily feeding cost: 37p

Ingredients: Poultry, wheat, maize, wheatfeed, poultry fat, rice, potato, carrots, vitamin premix, dicalcium phosphate, flax seed, salt, mixed herbs, yucca extract, minerals, trace elements, vitamins, zinc chelate, EEC permitted antioxidants

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GOLDEN EAGLE (holistic chicken formula)

Price (15kg): £67.49
Suggested daily amount: 160g
Daily feeding cost: 72p

Ingredients:Chicken meal, wholegrain white rice, wholegrain brown rice, refined chicken fat, oatmeal, potato, pork meal, whole linseed, tomato pomace, beet pulp, egg powder, salmon meal, peas, carrot flake, lucerne salmon oil, chicken liver gravy, mono sodium phosphate, salt, potassium chloride, seaweed, yucca, joint care pack, dried apple, cranberry, selenium, beta carotene, l'carnitine, minerals, vitamins

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GUSTO (original working)

Price (10kg): £10.59
Suggested daily amount: 120g
Daily feeding cost: 12p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (min 14% beef, min 4% lamb), oils, fats, mixed vegetables (min 4%), EC permitted antioxidants, mixed tocopherols, vitamin C, rosemary extract.

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HARRINGTONS (turkey & vegetables)

Price (15kg): £23.57
Suggested daily amount: 350g
Daily feeding cost: 56p

Ingredients: Maize, turkey meat meal (min 14%), oats, meat meal, rice, peas (min 4%), beet pulp, poultry fat, digest, vitamins, minerals, linseed, kelp, yeast, citrus extract, yucca extract.

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HEALTHY PAWS (rabbit & rice)

Price (15kg): £41.86
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 55p

Ingredients: Brown rice, rabbit meat meal, oats, dried carrot, alfalfa, seaweed, chicken oil, salmon oil, organic sunflower oil, minerals, vitamins, dandelion herb, cleaver herb, dried cranberry.

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HI-LIFE (moist meaty mince with chicken, turkey and bacon)

Price (3kg): £6.99
Suggested daily amount: 320g
Daily feeding cost: 77p

Ingredients: Meat meals (turkey, chicken, beef & bacon in variable proportions min 17%), ground whole wheat, genetically modified soybean meal, wheat bran, sugar, fresh meat (min 4%), seasonal fresh vegetables (min 4%), poultry fat, salt, poultry stock, sunflower oil.

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HILLS NATURES BEST (mini/medium breed, chicken)

Price (12kg): £42.99
Suggested daily amount: 220g
Daily feeding cost: 79p

Ingredients: Maize, poultry meal, corn gluten meal, animal fat, protein hydrolysate, brown rice, ground barley, wholegrain flakes, vegetable oil, dried beet pulp, dehydrated carrots, dehydrated peas, pulped tomatoes, spinach powder, fruit pulp of citrus fruits, pulped grapes, potassium citrate, linseed, l-lysine hydrochloride, calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, iron oxide, l-tryptophane, vitamins, trace elements, mixed tocopherols, citric acid, rosemary extract.

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HILLS SCIENCE PLAN (medium breed, chicken)

Price (12kg): £39.99
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 66p

Ingredients: Chicken (min 20%), turkey (min 10%), maize, chicken meal, turkey meal, soybean meal, animal fat, maize gluten meal, digest, flaxseed, vegetable oil, salt, potassium citrate, L-lysine hydrochloride, calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, taurine, L-tryptophan, vitamins, citric acid, mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract, trace elements.

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IAMS (small/medium breed, chicken)

Price (15kg): £31.99
Suggested daily amount: 150g
Daily feeding cost: 31p

Ingredients: Chicken (24%), maize, wheat, animal fat, poultry meal, sorghum, barley, dried beet pulp, chicken digest, fish meal, dried whole egg, brewers dried yeast, potassium chloride, sodium chloride, sodium hexametaphosphate, DL-methionine.
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JAMES WELLBELOVED (turkey & rice)

Price (15kg): £39.99
Suggested daily amount: 235g
Daily feeding cost: 63p

Ingredients: Rice (26%), turkey meat meal (26%), oats (19%) whole linseed, turkey gravy, turkey fat, sugar beet pulp, alfalfa, natural seaweed, chicory extract, sodium chloride, calcium carbonate, lysine, DL-methionine, yucca extract, threonine, JWB special ingredients.

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JAMES WELLBELOVED (cereal free, ocean white fish & vegetable)

Price (10kg): £42.49
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: £1.06

Ingredients: Ocean white fish meal (26%), pea starch (26%), potato flakes (20%), tomato pomace, whole linseed, fish stock, fish oil, olive oil, peas, sugar beet pulp, alfalfa meal, natural seaweed, carrot, chicory pulp, potassium chloride, parsley, nettle, chicory extract, sodium chloride, calcium carbonate, glucosamine, chondroitin, yucca extract.

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JON ANGELL PETCO (small/medium breed, fresh scottish salmon)

Price (15kg): £45
Suggested daily amount: 290g
Daily feeding cost: 88p

Ingredients: Salmon (min 37%:i ncludes min. 26% salmon meal, min. 11% fresh almon), potato (min 37%), salmon oil, sugar beet pulp, peas, brewers yeast, minerals, vitamins

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LATHAMS (lamb & rice)

Price (10kg): £24.99
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 62p

Ingredients: Lamb meat meal (26%), rice (26%), peas, potato, chicken fat, sugar beet pulp (5%), linseed (2.5%), digest, seaweed (1.25%), tomato, carrot, alfalfa, chicory, yucca schidigera extract, calcium carbonate, glucosamine, chondroitin.

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LAUGHING DOG (lamb)

Price (15kg): £39.82
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 66p

Ingredients: Lamb meat meal (30%), barley meal (30%), vegetables (16% potato, pea, carrot), oatmeal (7%), sugar beet flake, vegetable oil (4%), linseed (1%), minerals, citrus extract, tocopherols, yucca extract, rosemary extract

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LILYS KITCHEN (chicken & vegetable bake)

Price (7.5kg): £49.94
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: £1.63

Ingredients: Fresh organic chicken (26%), rice, oats, barley, brown lentils, whole flaxseed, sunflower seeds, broccoli, carrot, parsnip, peas, spinach, curly kale, honey, herbs: golden rod, kelp, cleavers, nettles, rosehips, aniseed, marigold petals, milk thistle, dandelion root, burdock root, omega 3 and 6.

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LILYS KITCHEN (grain free, chicken & duck)

Price (1kg): £6.49
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: £1.62

Ingredients: Fresh chicken and duck meat (38%), sweet potatoes, peas, lentils, pea protein, flaxseed, chicken liver (4%), eggs, chicken gravy, calcium carbonate, salmon oil, apples, carrots, spinach, cranberries,alfalfa, rosehip, chickweed, cleavers, golden rod, nettles, kelp, celery root, milk thistle, dandelion root, burdock root, marigold petals, chicory root, vitamins, minerals

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LUKULLUS (charolais beef & trout)

Price (15kg): £37.90
Suggested daily amount: 180g
Daily feeding cost: 45p

Ingredients: Beef meal (28%), brown rice, trout meal (6%), cold pressed rapeseed oil, algae, alfalfa, beets, rice germs, herbs, pears, apples, egg yolk powder, caraway, linseed oil, carob, silica, kieselgur, yucca schidigera, bilberries, trace elements, vitamins

 

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MARKUS MUHLE (NaturNah formula)

Price (15kg): £36.99
Suggested daily amount: 150g
Daily feeding cost: 36p

Ingredients: Poultry meat meal (27%), whole grain corn flour (13%), brown rice flour (13%), wild rumen meal (5%), rice germ, wild-bone meal, corn germ, jerusalem artichoke flour, beet powder, sea fish meal (5%), linseed oil, rapeseed oil, fruit powder (from locust beans, pineapple, papaya, banana, acerola cherry, apple, pear, blueberry, mango, raspberry), herbs, egg yolk powder, salmon oil, algae meal, trace elements, vitamins.

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MILBURNS (chicken & rice)

Price (15kg): £32.99
Suggested daily amount: 290g
Daily feeding cost: 64p

Ingredients: Rice (min 26%), poultry meal (min 26%), barley, oats, poultry fat, beet pulp, fish meal, brewers yeast, yucca, minerals, vitamins.

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MILLIES WOLFHEART (salmon & vegetable)

Price (15kg): £49.95
Suggested daily amount: 180g
Daily feeding cost: 60p

Ingredients:Salmon (min 69.68%), sweet potato, potato flake, salmon meal, salmon oil, pea fibre, lucerne, salmon gravy, vitamins, minerals, monosodium phosphate, mixed herbs (thyme, marjoram, oregano, parsley, sage), joint pack (clucosamine, MSM, chondroitin sulphate), dried cranberry, aniseed, fenugreek, spinach flakes, carrot flakes, dried apple, lovage powder, seaweed meal, camomile powder, burdock root powder, dandelion herb, peppermint

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MOORLANDS PET FOODS LTD. (working dog, chicken & rice)

Price (12kg): £36.49
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 76p

Ingredients: Freshly cooked chicken meat (37%), chicken meat meal (15%), white rice (14.32%), brown rice (14.32%), oats (10.23%), beet pulp (3.41%), chicken fat/oils (2.05%), chicken gravy (2.05%), minerals and vitamins (0.82%), mannan oligosaccharides (0.12%), fructo oligosaccharides (0.12%), glucosamine (0.04%).

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NATURAL DOG FOOD COMPANY (salmon & rice)

Price (15kg): £42.95
Suggested daily amount: 150g
Daily feeding cost: 42p

Ingredients: Fresh salmon (min 24%), rice (24%), oats, dried salmon (min 13%), mixed vegetables (9%), herbs, barley, whole linseed, chicken oil, brewers yeast, sugar beet, seaweed.

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NUTRO CHOICE (lamb & rice)

Price (12kg): £38.90
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 64p

Ingredients: Dried lamb protein (min 26 %), ground rice (min. 26 %), rice flour, dried beetroot, chicken fat (min 4 %), sunflower oil (min 3.5 %), rice gluten, salt, potassium chloride, fish oil, marigold extract, dried algae, rosemary extract

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OMEGA MAINTENANCE FORMULA (for working & sporting dogs)

Price (15kg): £12.99
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 25p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives, vegetable protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats, minerals, BHA, BHT.

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ORGANIPETS (free range organic chicken, rice & herbs)

Price (12kg): £49.99
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 83p

Ingredients: Organic fresh chicken (min 22%), organic whole rice (min 19%), chicken meal, prairie meal, organic oats, organic barley, organic peas, organic skimmed milk, maize protein, organic sunflower oil, chicken oil, whole linseed, seaweed meal, vegetable pomace, salmon oil, organic herbs (including oregano, rosemary, sage and thyme).

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ORIJEN (six fish)

Price (13.5kg): £64.99
Suggested daily amount: 175g
Daily feeding cost: 84p

Ingredients: Fresh salmon, salmon meal, herring meal, russet potato, fresh whitefish, sweet potato, peas, salmon oil, fresh walleye, fresh herring, alfalfa, fresh flounder, fresh lake trout, dehydrated kelp, pumpkin, carrots, spinach, turnip greens, apples, cranberries, saskatoon berries, black currants, choline chloride, psyllium, liquorice root, angelica root, fenugreek, marigold flowers, sweet fennel, peppermint leaf, chamomile flowers, dandelion, summer savory, rosemary, sea salt, vitamin supplements, mineral supplement, dried lactobacillus acidophilus product, dried enterococcus faecium fermentation product.

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PASCOES (country gold)

Price (15kg): £17.47
Suggested daily amount: 500g
Daily feeding cost: 58p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives, vegetables, oils, fats, sugars, minerals, vitamins, E133, E102, E124, E155, BHT, BHA

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PEDIGREE (beef, rice & vegetables)

Price (15kg): £27.55
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 36p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (min 4% beef), oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables (min 4% carrots, min 4% green beans), minerals.

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PETS AT HOME ADVANCED NUTRITION (sensitive, fresh salmon)

Price (10kg): £33.99
Suggested daily amount: 210g
Daily feeding cost: 72p

Ingredients: Fresh trout and salmon (min 36% [trout min 21%, salmon min 15%]), potato flakes, pea starch, sugar beet pulp, potato protein, salmon meal, sunflower oil, salmon oil, salmon digest, minerals, brewers yeast, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, methionine, yucca extract, marigold meal, L-carnitine, beta carotene

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PETS AT HOME COMPLETE (chicken & vegetables)

Price (15kg): £11.29
Suggested daily amount: 280g
Daily feeding cost: 21p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives, (min 4% chicken), oils, fats, vegetables, (min 4% peas), minerals, colourants.

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PURINA BETA (lamb & rice)

Price (15kg): £27.07
Suggested daily amount: 290g
Daily feeding cost: 53p

Ingredients: Cereals (min 4% wholegrain, min 4% rice), meat and animal derivatives (min 4% lamb) vegetable protein extracts, oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, vegetables (min 0.5% chicory).

PAGE THRE
PURINA PRO PLAN (chicken & rice)

Price (14kg): £44.80
Suggested daily amount: 280g
Daily feeding cost: 89p

Ingredients: Chicken, rice, maize, dehydrated poultry protein, maize gluten, wheat, animal fat, digest, beet pulp, fish oil, dried egg, yeast, calcium phosphate, potassium chloride, salt, calcium carbonate, minerals, natural extracts.

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PURIZON (chicken & fish)

Price (13.5kg): £52.90
Suggested daily amount: 225g
Daily feeding cost: 88p

Ingredients:Dried deboned chicken (17%), dried poultry meat (17%), sweet potatoes, dried potatoes, powdered egg (7%), deboned salmon (7%), dried herring (5.5%), dried duck (5%), peas, poultry fat (3%), hydrolised chicken (3%), dried salmon (3%), lucerne, fresh deboned duck (2%), pea starch, pea protein, potato protein, minerals, vitamins, salmon oil, psyllium, apples, carrots, spinach, fructo-oligosaccharides, algae, chamomile, peppermint, aniseed, fenugreek, marigold, dried herbs - thyme, marjoram, oregano, parsley, sage, cranberries.

 

[Six Star]

RED MILLS (leader)

Price (15kg): £36.80
Suggested daily amount: 220g
Daily feeding cost: 54p

Ingredients: Dehydrated chicken meat (min 20%), rice, maize, poultry fat, dehulled oats, linseed, fish meal, beet pulp, savoury chicken gravy, minerals, vitamins, vhicory extract, yeast extract

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ROBBIES (chicken & rice)

Price (10kg): £49.80
Suggested daily amount: ??
Daily feeding cost: ??

Ingredients: Brown rice, pearl rice, chicken, oats, chicken fat, green beans, carrots, spinach, sunflower oil, seaweed, sage, oregano, green tea, parsley, chicory, vitamins, minerals.

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ROYAL CANIN (small breed, poultry)

Price (8kg): £30.99
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 96p

Ingredients: Rice, dehydrated poultry meat, maize flour, animal fats, vegetable protein, maize, maize gluten, hydrolysed animal proteins, vegetable fibres, beet pulp, minerals, vegetable oil, fish oil, yeast, fructo-oligo-saccharides, sodium polyphosphate, hydrolysed yeast extract, green tea and grape extracts, Dl-methionine, egg powder, hydrolysed crustaceans, L-tyrosine, L-carnitine, hydrolysed cartilage.

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SAINSBURYS (beef, duck & vegetables)

Price (3kg): £2.99
Suggested daily amount: 230g
Daily feeding cost: 23p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (min 4% beef, min 4% duck) derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats, minerals, various sugars, vegetable protein extracts, vegetables (min 4%), yeast, EC permitted colourings and preservatives.

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SIMPSONS PREMIUM (lamb & rice)

Price (15kg): £35.65
Suggested daily amount: 245g
Daily feeding cost: 58p

Ingredients: Lamb meal (min 27%), brown rice (min 26%), maize, oats, chicken fat, beet pulp, dried egg, chicken liver digest, brewers yeast, potato protein, salmon oil, minerals, linseed, vitamins, yucca extract, cranberries, mannanoligosaccharides, fructooligosacharides, nucleotides, glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin

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SIMPSONS PREMIUM (sensitive, grain free, salmon & potato)

Price (12kg): £39.95
Suggested daily amount: 240g
Daily feeding cost: 79p

Ingredients: Deboned salmon, dried salmon, potato, sunflower oil, beet pulp, dried egg, brewers yeast, salmon Oil, linseeds, minerals, vitamins, yucca extract, cranberries, nucleotides, mannanoligosaccharides, fructooligosaccharides, glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin.

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SKINNERS (field and trial, duck & rice)

Price (15kg): £24.59
Suggested daily amount: 190g
Daily feeding cost: 31p

Ingredients: Rice (40%), duck meat meal (20%), oats, peas, whole linseed, sunflower oil, sugar beet pulp, vitamins and minerals.

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SKINNERS (field and trial, maintenance)

Price (15kg): £17.99
Suggested daily amount: 190g
Daily feeding cost: 23p

Ingredients: Whole wheat, maize, chicken meat meal, barley, chicken fat, beet pulp, vitamins, minerals, trace elements

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SKINNERS (ruff & ready)

Price (15kg): £21.50
Suggested daily amount: 190g
Daily feeding cost: 27p

Ingredients: Beef meat meal, cooked flaked maize, wheat glucose syrup, baked wholewheat biscuits, cooked flaked peas, cooked wheat flakes, oils, vitamins, minerals, trace elements.

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SYMPLY (lamb & rice)

Price (12kg): £42.99
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 71p

Ingredients: Dried lamb (min 28%), white rice (min 26%), rice bran, rice flour, sunflower oil (min 9%), beet pulp, dried egg, seaweed


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TASTE OF THE WILD (high prairie)

Price (13.6kg): £47.99
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 70p

Ingredients: Bison, venison, dried lamb meat, dried chicken meat, eggs, sweet potatoes, peas, potatoes, canola oil, roasted bison, roasted venison, natural flavourings, tomatoes, ocean fish meal, salt, choline chloride, dried chicory root, blueberries, raspberries, yucca schidigera extract, dried fermentation products of enterococcus faecium, lactobacillus acidophilus, lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus plantarum, dried trichoderma longibrachiatum fermentation extract, quality vitamins, minerals, potassium iodide, manganous oxide, biotin, calcium pantothenate, sodium selenite, folic acid.

 

[Six Star]

TESCO (beef & country vegetables)

Price (6kg): £5.23
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 26p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (min 4% beef, min 4% fresh meat), vegetable protein extracts , derivatives of vegetable origin (min 1% charcoal), oil and fats ,various sugars minerals, yeasts, antioxidants, BHA, BHT, E153, E172, E172, E155, E202, E102, E133, E330, E338, E282, E200, E297

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VETS KITCHEN (salmon & potato)

Price (7.5kg): £29.99
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 81p

Ingredients: Fresh salmon (min 24%), potato (min 24%), salmon meal (min 15%), brown rice, sugar beet pulp, oats, salmon oil (3.7%), brewers yeast, poultry digest, chicken fat, pork digest, minerals, vitamins, dl-methionine, marigold flowers, carrot, apple, seaweed, nucleotides, fructooligosaccharides, mannanoligosaccharides, glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphat, yucca schidigera extract, mixed tocopherols, rosemary, l-carnitine and beta carotene.

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VITALIN (maintenance, cereal free)

Price (15kg): £36.49
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 60p

Ingredients: Chicken meal meat (min 26%), potato (min 26%), refined chicken fat, sugar beet pulp, peas, carrots, yeast, fish meal, minerals, vitamins, glucosamine, chondroitin, MSM, yucca, prebiotic.

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VITALIN (royale, daily pet diet)

Price (15kg): £22
Suggested daily amount: 350g
Daily feeding cost: 52p

Ingredients: Cooked wheat, cooked sweetcorn, meat and marrowbone, cooked barley, vitamins, minerals.

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VITALIN (sensitive, lamb & rice)

Price (15kg): £28.99
Suggested daily amount: 150g
Daily feeding cost: 28p

Ingredients: Lamb meat meal (33%), rice (26%), maize germ, sugar beet pulp, chicken fat, brewers yeast, vitamins, minerals.


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WAFCOL (salmon & potato)

Price (15kg): £48.49
Suggested daily amount: 300g
Daily feeding cost: 96p

Ingredients: Salmon (25%), potato (20%), potato starch, lupin, linseed, vegetable oil, seaweed, calcium carbonate, dicalcium phosphate, vitamins, trace elements.

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WAGG (chicken & vegetables)

Price (15kg): £9.99
Suggested daily amount: 400g
Daily feeding cost: 26p

Ingredients: Wheat, meat meal, wheat feed, maize, poultry fat, digest, rice, beet pulp, chicken meat meal (min 4%), linseed, peas, carrots, lucerne, minerals, yeast, citrus extract, yucca extract.

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WAINWRIGHTS (turkey & rice)

Price (15kg): £33.49
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 55p

Ingredients: Turkey meat meal (min 26%), rice (min 40%), whole grain barley, potato protein, refined poultry oil, whole linseed, sugar beet pulp, poultry digest, alfalfa, monosodium phosphate, natural seawood, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, methionine, marigold extract, yucca extract, rosemary extract.

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WEBBOX (prime original with beef)

Price (15kg): £9.99
Suggested daily amount: 310g
Daily feeding cost: 20p

Ingredients: Cereals , meat and animal derivatives (min 4% fresh beef) , derivatives of vegetable origin , oils, fats , fish & fish derivatives, minerals, EEC permitted antioxidants, preservatives and colours .

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WHITES (chicken & rice)

Price (15kg): £32.99
Suggested daily amount: 250g
Daily feeding cost: 54p

Ingredients: Chicken (26%), rice (26%), barley, poultry fat, sugar beet pulp, fish meal, brewers yeast, yucca extract, minerals, vitamins, omega 3.

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WINALOT (beef, rice & vegetables)

Price (15kg): £22.95
Suggested daily amount: 310g
Daily feeding cost: 47p

Ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (min 4% beef) vegetable protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats, minerals, vegetables (min 4% green vegetables, min 4% carrots), EC permitted additives and colourings.

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YARRAH (organic chicken & grains)

Price (15kg): £44.90
Suggested daily amount: 220g
Daily feeding cost: 66p

Ingredients: Grain (corn and wheat), meat and animal by-products (23% chicken), oils, fats, minerals.

 

[quirky]

Ooh, this is good timing
My little IG seems to have gone off his Natures Harvest and I'm considering whether to go down the dry route for him.

I shall peruse this when I have more time.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Hello!! I see you joined the dark side. Can we make this a sticky, please, TFC?

 

[NeverSayNever]

Excellent Ive just started taking in Applaws for when i cant feed raw

 

[Bix]

I've studied this list over in the other forum (thanks to the link from CT previously) and it's been immensely helpful. Thank you for putting it here for us! I definitely agree this should be stickied (please)!

 

[Molasses]

wow!
Thank you

 

[joop]

Do u know if scats stock any of the green ones ? Thanks

 

[Six Star]

Hello!! I see you joined the dark side. Can we make this a sticky, please, TFC?

Hello you! Yes! Well, kind of. Obviously a bit out of place seeing as I'm horseless but thought I'd just throw this up on here, and will join in where I can

 

[Alec Swan]

An interesting listing. Thank you.

One small problem; before we can evaluate the values of any canine feed, we need to be in possession of two important facts;

Firstly the "Stated" protein content, and not just that it contains 4% beef, or 20% chicken, but the protein levels, and

Secondly, "Exactly" how those protein levels are achieved.

Protein can be extracted from urine and faeces, and in some ruminant feeds, that's exactly how it is provided.

I'm certainly not a nutritionist, but the levels of protein which we offer dogs will have a vital and sometimes worrying effect upon their mindsets, and behaviour.

Alec.

Ets, again, a very useful post, well done and thank you!! a.

 

[Six Star]

An interesting listing. Thank you.

One small problem; before we can evaluate the values of any canine feed, we need to be in possession of two important facts;

Firstly the "Stated" protein content, and not just that it contains 4% beef, or 20% chicken, but the protein levels, and

Secondly, "Exactly" how those protein levels are achieved.

Protein can be extracted from urine and faeces, and in some ruminant feeds, that's exactly how it is provided.

I'm certainly not a nutritionist, but the levels of protein which we offer dogs will have a vital and sometimes worrying effect upon their mindsets, and behaviour.

Alec.

Ets, again, a very useful post, well done and thank you!! a.

Hi Alec, thanks for your message.

As I've said many times on Petforums, where this list has been for a good while, it's just a very rough basic starting point - a platform to give a rough idea of what is good and what isn't - and to start people off on their own research to find out all they want to know about food that interest them - the protein levels etc.

That said - I, personally, do not believe protein has any adverse affect on behaviour - and that it is the quality of protein that we offer that counts, not the quantity.

 

[Vicstress]

Interesting post. Re. Protein the only 'proof' I have is an or excitable JR that went on low protein and was a much happier dog......food for thought tho (sorry couldnt resist)

 

[Alec Swan]

.......

That said - I, personally, do not believe protein has any adverse affect on behaviour - and that it is the quality of protein that we offer that counts, not the quantity.

A couple of points, or perhaps questions;

Firstly, the effect that protein levels would have or would be, are certainly "Dog" and possibly "Breed" dependant, I'd suggest. Though I'm not sure why, I tend to gravitate towards those dogs which are busy by disposition. They're the dogs which I find I can work with, and there can be no doubt that those which have a predisposition to an excitable behaviour pattern, will be affected by their perceived protein levels.

Secondly, it would be an interesting point to discover that the quality, or perhaps source, of protein is the reason for the displayed energy levels, in some, whilst others may seem relatively unaffected.

I've also noticed that the greatest influence on complete feed pricing levels tends to be the published protein levels. Perhaps avoid the cheap, but high proteins. I'm not sure!

Alec.

 

[stencilface]

Thanks for posting this, I currently feed wainwrights (from reading your post on the other forum ) but would like to try some of the other ones if possible, if I can feed less, then it might work out not too much more expensive.

Are you posting the Wet Dog Food index too?!

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Are you posting the Wet Dog Food index too?!

Ooh, yes, please!

 

[Six Star]

A long time coming but I've finally got round (thanks to a nudge from cinammontoast ) to posting the The Wet Dog Food Index too... I wasn't going to add it on the edit of the Dry Food bit, so it's all at the start of the page, but I can't see to edit my posts for some reason, strange, anyway here it is! -

The Wet Dog Food Index

Like the dry food listings, I’ve based the below information on a 15kg adult dog, living in a home environment with moderate activity levels, and all prices are approximate and based on purchasing the packets of food singularly, where possible. All the foods are complete diets, except those marked with a star (*). The foods marked with a star (*) should be fed alongside another complete food, either wet or dry.

I have gathered the information from packet labels, websites and by contacting the manufacturers directly, and it’s as accurate as I can possibly make it – bare in mind that prices vary depending on where the food is purchased, and ingredients do change from time to time.

I have loosely grouped the foods into three colour coded groups.

Green – these are the wet foods that I consider to be of exceptional quality. They have a very high meat content and little or no grains.

Orange - these are “middle of the road” foods. The quality varies immensely within this group, but I feel they all offer a good quality basic diet for normal healthy dogs, with a decent meat content and reasonable ingredients.

Red – these foods are the ones that I feel are extremely poor, and that should be avoided. They tend to have either an inadequate meat content, too many cheap fillers, artificial additives, harmful chemicals, added sugar – or a mixture of all of those!

As per the dry food thread - I must stress that this is merely my opinion, of course we won't all agree on what is a good food and what isn't. I am neither a vet nor a canine nutritionist, but I am a dog owner with a huge interest in dog nutrition.

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*APPLAWS cans (chicken, tuna & vegetables)

Price (156g can): £1.34
Suggested daily amount: 3 cans
Daily feeding cost: £4.02

Ingredients: Chicken (28%), tuna (17%), pumpkin (8%), carrot (8%), peas (8%), rice (5%), water

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*APPLAWS pouches (chicken, beef & vegetables)

Price (150g pouch): £1.47
Suggested daily amount: 3 pouches
Daily feeding cost: £4.41

Ingredients: Chicken (45%), beef (15%), baby corn (8%), brocolli (8%), chicken broth

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ARDEN GRANGE PARTNERS cans (lamb, rice & vegetables)

Price (395g can): £1.05
Suggested daily amount: 1 and a half cans
Daily feeding cost: £1.57

Ingredients: Lamb (70%), rice (5%), peas, carrots, pumpkin meal, beet pulp, fish oil, minerals, vitamins, seaweed extract, glucosamine, chondroitin, cranberry extract, yucca extract, nucleotides

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BURNS PENLAN FARM pouches (chicken, rice & vegetables)

Price (400g pouch): £1.65
Suggested daily amount: 1 pouch
Daily feeding cost: £1.65

Ingredients: Chicken (20%) rice (20%), seasonal vegetables (20%), vitamins, minerals

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BUTCHERS CHOICE trays (turkey, game & vegetables)

Price (150g tray): 60p
Suggested daily amount: 5 trays
Daily feeding cost: £3

Ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives (turkey min 7%, game min 6%), carrots (2.5%), peas (2.5%), minerals

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BUTCHERS cans (beef & liver)

Price (400g can): 56p
Suggested daily amount: 2 and a half cans
Daily feeding cost: £1.40

Ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives (min 50%, incl. beef min 4%, liver min 4%, min. fresh meat min 15%), minerals



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CESAR trays (beef, pasta & carrots in gravy)

Price (150g tray): 60p
Suggested daily amount: 6 trays
Daily feeding cost: £3.60

Ingredients: Meat and animal Derivatives (min 4% beef), vegetables (4% carrot), bakery products (4% cooked pasta), cereals, minerals, herbs

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CHAPPIE cans (chicken & rice)

Price (825g can): 86p
Suggested daily amount: 1 can
Daily feeding cost: 86p

Ingredients: Fish and fish derivatives (min 14% white fish), cereals (min 4% rice), meat and animal derivatives (min 4% chicken), oils, fats, herbs, minerals

Rated 'orange' purely for it's suitabilty for sensitive stomachs.

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DENES cans (rabbit, chicken & herbs)

Price (400g can): 99p
Suggested daily amount: 2 cans
Daily feeding cost: £1.98

Ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives (min 4% rabbit, min 4% chicken), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, peppermint, parsley, cumin, vitamins, minerals, sugar

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HERMANNS ORGANIC cans (turkey with fruits & vegetables)

Price (6 x 400g): £13.90
Suggested daily amount: ¾ of a can
Daily feeding cost: £1.71

Ingredients: Turkey (50%) apple, courgettes, jerusalem artichokes, celery, salad, linseed oil.

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HI LIFE NATURES ESSENTIALS pouches (fish with vegetables & rice)

Price (8 x 150g ): £5.30
Suggested daily amount: 4 pouches
Daily feeding cost: £2.75

Ingredients: Fish (45%), garden vegetables (4% peas, 4% carrots), rice (4%), sunflower oil, fish oil, minerals, seawood extract, chicory extract, green tea extract

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HILLS SCIENCE PLAN cans (chicken)

Price (395g can): £1.83
Suggested daily amount: 2 cans
Daily feeding cost: £3.66

Ingredients: Chicken (11 %), pork liver, pearl barley, ground maize, pork, soybean meal, iron oxide, dried whey, vegetable oil, calcium carbonate, iodised salt, magnesium oxide, potassium chloride, vitamins, trace elements

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JAMES WELLBELOVED pouches (turkey with rice & vegetables in gravy)

Price (150g pouch): 59p
Suggested daily amount: 6 pouches
Daily feeding cost: £3.54

Ingredients: Turkey (26%), rice (4%), peas (4%), carrots (4%), sunflower oil, sugar beet pulp, linseed oil, calcium carbonate, seaweed, alfalfa, potassium chloride, tomatoes

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LILYS KITCHEN cans (chicken & turkey casserole)

Price (400g can): £2.20
Suggested daily amount: 2 cans
Daily feeding cost: £4.40

Ingredients: Chicken (45%), turkey (15%), rice, pearl barley, apples, broccoli, squash, peas, carrots, whole blueberries, flaxseed, omega 3 and 6, golden rod, nettle, aniseed, celery seed, rosehips, marigold petals, cleavers, kelp, alfalfa, milk thistle, dandelion root, burdock root

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LUKULLUS cans (venison & rabbit with rice, apple & linseed oil)

Price (6 x 400g): £6.59
Suggested daily amount: 1 ½ cans
Daily feeding cost: £2.04

Ingredients: Meat and animal by-products (66% [including heart, liver, meat, stomach, tripe from rabbit and game]), meat stock, apples, rice, minerals, linseed oil

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NATURE DIET trays (chicken, rice & vegetables)

Price (390g tray): 80p
Suggested daily amount: 1 and a half trays
Daily feeding cost: £1.60

Ingredients:Chicken (65%), rice (10%), vegetables (7%), natural ground bone, seaweed meal

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NATURES HARVEST trays (lamb & rice)

Price (395g): 97p
Suggested daily amount: 1 tray
Daily feeding cost: 97p

Ingredients: Fresh lamb (65%), rice (21%), peas, carrots, scottish salmon oil, seaweed, glucosamine, vitamins, minerals

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NATURES MENU cans (chicken & salmon with vegetables & rice)

Price (400g can): £1.30
Suggested daily amount: 1 can
Daily feeding cost: £1.30

Ingredients: Chicken (34%), salmon (25%), carrots (6%), peas (4%), rice (4%) sunflower oil

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[Six Star]

NATURES MENU pouches (beef & tripe with vegetables & rice)

Price (300g pouch): 92p
Suggested daily amount: 2 pouches
Daily feeding cost: £1.84

Ingredients: Beef (40%), tripe (20%), peas (4%), carrots (4%), rice (6%), minerals, various sugars

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PAL cans (chicken & beef in jelly)

Price (385g can): 42p
Suggested daily amount: 3 cans
Daily feeding cost: £1.26

Ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives (min 4% chicken, min 4% beef), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals

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PEDIGREE cans (chicken in jelly)

Price (385g can): 54p
Suggested daily amount: 2 cans
Daily feeding cost: £1.08

Ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives (min 45% including min 4% chicken, min 4% fresh meat), cereals, derivatives of vegetable origin, sunflower oil (0.5%), fats, minerals

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PEDIGREE pouches (lamb & poultry in jelly)

Price (300g pouch): 69p
Suggested daily amount: 3 pouches
Daily feeding cost: £2.07

Ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives (min 4% lamb, min 4% poultry), cereals, oils, fats, derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetable protein extracts, minerals

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PETS AT HOME ADVANCED NUTRITION cans (chicken)

Price (395g can): £1.59
Suggested daily amount: 2 ½ cans
Daily feeding cost: £3.97

Ingredients: Chicken (40%), beef, rice, barley, maize, minerals, seaweed extract, cassia, salmon oil, sunflower oil, guar gum, prebiotics, yucca extract, cranberry extract, taurine

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SAINSBURYS cans (chicken in jelly)

Price (400g can): 49p
Suggested daily amount: 2 cans
Daily feeding cost: 98p

Ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives (min 37% including min 4% chicken), derivatives of vegetable origin, cereals, vitamins, minerals, sugar

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WAINWRIGHTS trays (turkey with rice)

Price (395g tray): 88p
Suggested daily amount: Two thirds of a tray
Daily feeding cost: 58p

Ingredients: Turkey (65%), turkey liver (5%), brown rice (5%), minerals, seaweed, chicory root

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*WEBBOX 'chubs' (beef & lamb flavour)

Price (880g 'chub'): 56p
Suggested daily amount: Half a 'chub'
Daily feeding cost: 28p

Ingredients: Meat and animal Derivatives (including beef and lamb flavourings), cereals , derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, EC permitted colourings and preservatives

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WINALOT cans (tuna in jelly)

Price (400g can): 62p
Suggested daily amount: 3 cans
Daily feeding cost: £1.86

Ingredients: Meat and animal derivatives, cereals, fish derivatives (min 4% tuna), vegetable protein extracts, minerals, EC permitted colourings

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ZIWIPEAK cans (tripe, venison & lamb)

Price (370g can): £2.35
Suggested daily amount: 2 cans
Daily feeding cost: £4.70

Ingredients: Lamb tripe, lamb meat, venison meat, venison tripe (total meat content 66%), green lipped mussel, guar gum, sodium tripolyphosphate, minerals, vitamins, carrageenan

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This thread is merely a guide - a starting point for you to do your own research into your chosen brand

 

[Toffee44]

Hello stranger!!!!! Mine are on fishmongers after I a) messed up last months order b) fainted at WW wet trays price increase!!

 

[ladyearl]

Fish4dogs have changed their "recipe" since this was originally done and now contains pea flour - which does not work for everyone. I'm not sure what other foods may have changed since this list was compiled I know it has been around for a while and actually I still think it is valid for a rough indicator.

This is the ingredients list for the working dog food that I feed my BC on and she does well on......................Ocean White Fish (27%), Pea Flour (22%), Potato (23%), Fishmeal (8.7%), Salmon Oil (9.3%), Beet Pulp (6.6%), Brewers Yeast, Minerals

 

[Luci07]

Useful as I am playing around with hyperallenigic foods for my stafford girls. The scratching as stopped (were on JWB before), they liked the JWB hyperallengic, liked the Simply foods, and Skinners and the Fish4dogs which looked the best seems to be receiving a resounding paws down.

Guilty had switched from Nature diet to Butchers as got fed up with constantly having none available due to stocking issues. Will look again!

 

[Steeleye Span]

Well done Six Star. Yes this dry food index is an invaluable tool when considering dry food.

 

[Steeleye Span]

The Wet Food index is excellent as well. Hope this becomes a STICKY. I feed WW Trays and although the price has increased, according to the box, the meat content has now risen to 71%. Liver and Rice both remain at 5%.

 

[Alec Swan]

A bit late now, considering the trouble that you've gone to, but a manufacturers stated protein content may have helped. A good effort, just the same, and useful too.

Thank you.

Alec.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

The Wet Food index is excellent as well. Hope this becomes a STICKY. I feed WW Trays and although the price has increased, according to the box, the meat content has now risen to 71%. Liver and Rice both remain at 5%.

It is, in the locked bit above. I've asked admin to make it more obvious, ie a sticky of its own.

 

[Toast]

Yaaay i've been waiting for this!

Now, Fatty.... Sticky please!

 

[Micky]

Maybe add Akela dry food to the list..in green!! Hasdone wonders for my dog, it appears very similar to Orijen but cheaper...