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Boost Meatballs review

About as good as fresh-cooked food gets. 81% declared meat content leads the label. Feeding it costs about £2.31 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 91/100 Exceptional
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Top 3%scores higher than 97% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Exceptionalscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
81%declared meat content
United Kingdombrand origin
185kcal per 100 g

Where the points went

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

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 89/100 across 11 ingredients (declared percentages used for 9, position estimates for the rest).
35.8 / 40
Label clarity
Vague category terms on the label (Cellulose) - naming points withheld; percentages cover 98% of the recipe (+5.9); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
9.9 / 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 81%.
15 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 24% dry matter (low); fat 16.7% DM in the healthy band; fibre 1.4% DM (+1.9); ash 6.0% DM - sensible mineral load (+2); functional extras: omega-3 source, named botanicals (+2).
9.9 / 10
Processing
Gently cooked fresh food - low temperatures with a pathogen kill step.
10 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
91 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 91 down: the biggest single loss is label transparency, where it takes 9.9 of a possible 15. Its strongest showing is declared meat content at 15 of 15.

The label declares 81% meat, which is unusually specific - most brands never print a figure at all, and the ingredient list is only partly specific.

At about £2.31 a day to feed a 10kg 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.

Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label
Additives (as declared on the label)
Vitamin E 50mg, Zinc (Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate) 15.0mg, Manganese (Manganous Sulphate Monohydrate) 10.0mg, Copper ( Copper II Sulphate Pentahydrate ) 2.0mg, Iodine (Anhydrous Calcium Iodate) 0.5mg.

Nutrition

Declared analysis converted to a dry-matter basis, so wet and dry foods compare fairly.

Protein

52.4 % DM
Directory average: 46.1

Fat

16.7 % DM
Directory average: 26.7

Est. carbs

23.6 % DM
Directory average: 17

Fibre

1.4 % DM
Directory average: 4

Ash

6 % DM
Directory average: 7.7

Energy

185 kcal/100g
Directory average: 141.9

Carbohydrates are estimated: 100% minus protein, fat, fibre, ash and moisture.

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