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Butternut Box · fresh-cooked

Butternut Box Duo of Duck & Chicken review

Fresh-cookedPuppyAdultSeniorGrain freeHypoallergenicNaturalAllergiesFussy eatersSkin and coatHigh energy
Very good

A genuinely strong fresh-cooked food. 60% declared meat content leads the label. The breakdown below shows exactly where every point went.

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Top 17%scores higher than 84% of rated foodsacross all 3530 foods we've scored
Very goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
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 77/100 across 14 ingredients (no percentages declared - position-based estimates used).
30.9 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); no percentages declared at all - the recipe is unverifiable; meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
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 60%.
15 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 20% dry matter (low); fat 30.0% DM is high (obesity/pancreatitis watch) (-1.0); fibre 2.3% DM (+2); ash 7.3% DM - sensible mineral load (+2); functional extras: omega-3 source, named botanicals (+2).
9 / 10
Processing
Gently cooked fresh food - low temperatures with a pathogen kill step.
10 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.0 · scored July 28, 2026 · full methodology public
84 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 84 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 30.9 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 is only partly specific.

Ingredients

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

Meat & fish

Human-Quality Duck and Chicken

Fruit & veg

CarrotsButternut SquashGreen BeansSplit Red LentilsWhole Red LentilsBroccoliCranberriesCauliflower

Oils & fats

Salmon Oil

Supplements & extras

Brewer's YeastMineralsDried RosemaryDried Sage
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.

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 15 kg adult dog needs about 188 g a day.

No reliable price data for this food yet, so no cost estimate - we only show numbers we can back.

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: divide that by this food's energy density, 140 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.

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. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

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

Protein

40 % DM
Directory average: 46.3

Fat

30 % DM
Directory average: 25.9

Est. carbs

20.3 % DM
Directory average: 18.4

Fibre

2.3 % DM
Directory average: 3.8

Ash

7.3 % DM
Directory average: 7.7

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

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