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barking heads Big Foot Puppy Days review

DryPuppyGrain freeHypoallergenicNaturalJoint careSkin and coat
Very good

A genuinely strong dry food. 60% declared meat content leads the label, and the label tells you exactly what is inside. Feeding it costs about £1.15 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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Top 31%scores higher than 69% of rated foodsacross all 3530 foods we've scored
Very goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£1.15per day for a 15 kg dogcheaper than 27% of dry foods
60%declared meat content

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 76/100 across 16 ingredients (declared percentages used for 4, position estimates for the rest).
30.5 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 85% of the recipe (+5.1); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
14.1 / 15
Additives
No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.
10 / 10
Red flags
No red-flag ingredients.
0 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 60%.
15 / 15
Nutritional balance
Composition not fully declared - scored neutral (4/10) until the analytical constituents are published.
4 / 10
Processing
Assumed extruded kibble (standard high-heat process).
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.0 · scored July 28, 2026 · full methodology public
80 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 80 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 30.5 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is declared meat content at 15 of 15.

The label declares 60% meat, which is unusually specific - most brands never print a figure at all, and the ingredient list names things individually rather than hiding them in catch-all categories.

At about £1.15 a day to feed a 15kg dog, the question is not whether it is cheap but whether the label justifies the price - and on our scoring, it broadly does.

Ingredients

Straight from the label, grouped by role - every ingredient is coloured by our published classification and links to its full page.

Meat & fish

turkey 60%freshly prepared free-run turkey 33%dried turkey 23%turkey gravy 4%chicken fat 2.5%

Fruit & veg

sweet potato 14%potatopeas 10%potato proteinlucerneseaweeddried carrot 500mg/kg

Oils & fats

salmon oil 1%

Supplements & extras

mineralsyeast products 1000mg/kgchicory root extract FOS 1000mg/kgFOS 1000mg/kgglucosamine 500mg/kgmixed herbspeppermintrosemaryoregano and thyme 500mg/kgbeta glucans 300mg/kgchondroitin sulphate 150mg/kg
Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
6 kg--
12 kg--

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 15 kg adult dog needs about 188 g a day = £1.16 / day, £35.26 / month.

How we work this out
  1. Energy: an adult dog at rest needs about 95 × weight0.75 kcal a day (the FEDIAF maintenance formula - a 15 kg dog works out near 725 kcal).
  2. Portion: we don't have this food's calories yet, so we fall back to a rough 12.5 g per kg of dog.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £6.15 / kg, for the daily cost, then by 30.4 days for the month.

Estimates scale to your dog's weight and the food's calorie density - a denser food needs fewer grams. A rough guide; always follow the pack. This is a puppy food, but the figures above are for an adult dog at maintenance - the same reference we use on every food so costs stay comparable. A growing puppy needs roughly twice the energy for its weight, so feed to the pack, not to this. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

No declared analysis yet

The manufacturer's analytical constituents appear here once we've verified the label.

How we read labels

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