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Mixing bowl composition
This is the ingredients list as printed on the packaging or manufacturer's website.
Think of the 'mixing bowl' composition like a recipe - all the ingredients you would need to put in a 'mixing bowl' in order to make the food.
Ingredients have to be listed in descending order of their weight so the higher it appears, the more there is.
Highlighted ingredients
Ingredients that we believe to be controversial or inferior are highlighted in yellow with particularly low grade, highly contentious or excessively vague ingredients in red.
As fed composition
While the 'mixing bowl' composition is useful for knowing what went into the food, it doesn't always reflect what your dog is actually eating. This is because the processes that turn the ingredients into the finished pet food can significantly alter the relative weights of the ingredients.
For this reason we've calculated the approximate 'as fed' percentages for the main ingredient categories in the finished product.
Please note that these figures are very approximate. They are estimates based on the information provided by the manufacturer in the ingredients list so the clearer the terminology and the more percentages they provide, the more accurate our estimates will be. Wherever information is lacking, we always assume the worst.
Ingredient categories
◉ Meat ingredients: includes all meat and fish ingredients except isolated fats/oils.
◉Added oils and fats: includes all isolated oil and fat ingredients.
◉ Carb-rich ingredients: includes all ingredients derived from grains, pseudo-grains, potatoes and other starchy root vegetables, sweet potato and legumes (except whole peas which are categorised under fruit and veg) except for isolated protein and extracted oils. Also includes fibre supplements.
◉ Fruit and veg: includes all whole vegetables and fruits.
◉ Other: all other ingredients. Mostly made up by nutritional supplements and additives.
For more information on any ingredient, please take a look at our Dog Food Ingredient Glossary
The dry matter level of a nutrient is the percentage there would be in the food if all of the water was removed.
With water taken out of the equation, these figures allow the nutrient levels of foods of different types (like wet and dry) to be compared on an even playing field.
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81.19 out of 100 - Excellent
Our unique product ratings are calculated based on a number of characteristics including the quality and quantity of the stated ingredients, certain nutritional and technological additives and the processing methods used to create the food. They are designed to indicate how beneficial we think a food is likely to be for the majority of dogs when fed on a daily basis for an extended period. Click here for more information
Country of origin:United Kingdom
A technological additive is any substance added to a pet food "for a technological purpose and which favourably affects the characteristics of feed".
The most common categories of technological additives include preservatives and antioxidants, gelling agents and thickeners and probiotics.
While the primary effects of technoloical additives are certainly 'favourable' (increased shelf life in the case of preservatives & antioxidants, better food texture and consistency in the case of gelling agents and thickeners etc.) some have been linked to health problems in pets and should be treated with caution.
Unfortunately, many technological additives do not have to be declared by the manufacturer so just because they do not appear on the label does not necessarily mean they are not in the food. If in doubt, ask the manufacturer directly exactly what technological additives their foods contain.
Heidi Asbury •11 months ago
This is the only food my ShihTzu will eat. She's so fussy but loves the chicken and pork. Thankyou, I've tried so many other foods and this wins hands down. :-)Thelma Bromley •one year ago
I have a 12 & a half year old Border Terrier newly diagnosed with CKD, I have done some research and am taking him off dry kibble, would this good be suitable for a dog with stage 1/2 CKD, I’m rather concerned with the brown rice powder content as have previously chosen grain freeSweety •one year ago
I have a 6 year old cockapoo she has never liked eating we have tried raw cooked tinned sachets packs everything now I put this food down and she eats it all Thank goodness what a relief many thanksRobert Fraser •one year ago
My sprocker has been on this for a year. Tried all the expensive foods, butternut box etc. Only one he didn't get bored of has been pets love fresh. I mix it with pooch and mutt kibble, which he'll eat if we're outside, to keep the price reasonable. He's doing great on this food.Kate51 •one year ago
I have been using this for a few months with my one year cocker. It is expensive but I use as a topper with good grade kibble. My cocker loves it. We tried lots of different foods but she always had very loose stools. This combined with wolfworthy has settled her finally. As a very fussy eater she also loves this and never refuses.Walkingwithdogs •2 years ago
I wrote to ask them if this food contains carageenan, they confirmed it does ..maybe "all about dog food" could do the same for their own peace of mind and update accordingly... Thank youJames Bailey
Walkingwithdogs
•2 years ago
Hi there, yes, we replied in full with a complete breakdown of ingredients in our recipes. For anyone with concerns about carrageenan, it's worth reading All About Dog Food's own article on the matter: https://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk/dog-food-ingredients/0132/carrageenan In the tiny amounts we are using, it is of absolutely no harm and is commonly used in wet and pate like recipes - it is a natural thickener derived from seaweed. The focus should be on the quality British meat, high quality ingredients (no fillers just for the sake of filling up the recipe) and the fact we gently cook our food at a low temperature for several hours to ensure that it is not just delicious and tender (and easy to digest even for dog's with sensitive stomachs), but all the great natural nutrition makes it to your dog's bowl. We freeze the food immediately after cooking to avoid having to use any nasty preservatives and deliver it frozen to your door.Ray Davies •2 years ago
Seems very expensive compared to Foryhglade which is higher nutrion and the cost is high at £5 A day. I have 3 dogs and can't afford this. It also looks bland, colourless compared to Butternut box for example . My dogs enjoyed it but costly .James Bailey
Ray Davies
•2 years ago
Hi Ray, it's great to hear that your dog's enjoyed our food. The cost has been arbitrarily plucked by AADF, but we are more expensive than Forthglade for two main reasons, we are using higher quality ingredients and the way we prepare the food is more involved. We use British meat (that would normally be going to supermarkets to be sold for human food), not left overs in the human meat supply. Our recipes are over 70% British meat. We gently cook our food at a low temperature for just the right time (several hours) - so it is delicious and tender, as well as being very easy to digest, even for the most sensitive tummies. Then we freeze our food immediately after cooking it to avoid having to use any nasty preservatives. The reason our food doesn't have the vibrant colours of a butternut box recipe is that we aren't putting in fruit and veg that appeal to our 'human instincts' of what are healthy but don't actually provide much in the way of nutrition to dogs. A clear example being carrots, almost every day we are approached by customers asking if we have carrots in our recipes as their dog either doesn't like them or doesn't digest them well. I hope this helps explain the differentials - obviously every dog food brand out there thinks they are making the healthiest food, but from our end we really are trying to achieve that and our starting point wasn't from a price perspective, but a quality perspective.Team AADF
James Bailey
•2 years ago
Hi James. The price comes from the Pets Love Fresh website so not that arbitrary really.James Bailey
Ray Davies
•2 years ago
Hi Ray, thanks your comment and raising some interesting points. The score for forthglade may be higher, but this is down to a technicality from AADF's system - namely our packaging hasn't got "the percentage of the first non-meat ingredient on the packaging" which is an AADF requirement, not a labelling requirement for any regulator. To be clear, the brown rice is roughly 8% in most of our recipes, it's not a filler, it is there for the fibre content. The meat content of our recipes is above 70% and it is all British meat. So essentially, were we to have put 8% next to the rice on our labels, we'd score more highly than forthglade, so from a pure food perspective (rather than packaging and labelling) we are nutritionally fantastic. In addition on the pricing front, we have a sliding scale on the cost based on how much you can order, so again, if you were able to order in reasonable volume (5kg - 10kg order), you'd be able to get our food at a lower price to Forthglade. The final point to make is that we are gently cooking our food at a low temperature for several hours so it is delicious and tender - it also makes it really easy to digest. You commented that Butternut have more colours to their food, this lacks any scientific rigour and essentially involves putting in certain foods like carrots which have questionable benefits to dogs (and causes allergies in some dogs). Every ingredient in our food is there for a specific health benefit, not a marketing gimmick.Nicky Lindley
Ray Davies
•one year ago
Ray, my dogs enjoyed Butternut Box but its FULL lentils which are a legume, which according to some sources shouldn't be fed in large quantities due to the risk of heart disease. Other sources say it's fine, so who really knows! The problem I had with it is EVERY recipe of theirs uses huge quantities (imo) of lentils so you can't even make a choice for your own dog and pick a recipe without them.