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Butternut Box Chicken & Salmon Sausies review

A weak treat food by the label. 30% declared meat content is respectable, and the label tells you exactly what is inside. The breakdown below shows exactly where every point went.

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ODF Score 43/100 Poor
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Top 80%scores higher than 20% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Poorscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
30%declared meat content
United Kingdombrand origin

Where the points went

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

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 77/100 across 11 ingredients (declared percentages used for 2, position estimates for the rest).
30.8 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 60% of the recipe (+3.6); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
12.6 / 15
Additives
Added sugars/sweeteners (-4); declared additives below our neutral line, weakest being Vegetable Glycerol (-5.3).
0.8 / 10
Red flags
Vegetable Glycerol at position 4 (-16).
-16 / 0
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
43 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 43 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 30.8 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is label transparency at 12.6 of 15. On top of that, 16 points are deducted outright for red-flag ingredients - a penalty applied before anything else is counted, which is why the total lands where it does.

The label declares 30% meat, which is a real number, which already puts it ahead of the many that print none, and the ingredient list names things individually rather than hiding them in catch-all categories.

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)
Additives per KG: Technological Additives: Stabiliser: Sodium Alginate, Antioxidant: Tocopherol extracts from Vegetable Oils

Nutrition

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

Protein

17 % DM
Directory average: 42.9

Fat

19.8 % DM
Directory average: 11.8

Est. carbs

53.9 % DM
Directory average: 37.5

Fibre

0.7 % DM
Directory average: 2

Ash

8.5 % DM
Directory average: 6.5

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

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