Fold Hill Dog Food Review & Ratings

We have rated 1 Fold Hill food, and it scores 3/100. That is the lowest score on this site, so it is worth being precise about why, because a number that low usually means we are missing data rather than the food being poor.

That is not the case here. The label parsed cleanly. The problem is that there is almost nothing on it: the entire ingredient list is around sixty characters of broad category terms, with no named meat and no declared percentage of anything. Our score is not punishing the recipe, because the recipe is not disclosed. It is punishing the fact that you cannot find out what you are buying.

Terms like meat and animal derivatives are legal and widely used. What they mean in practice is that the manufacturer can vary what goes in between batches, depending on what is cheap that month, without changing a word on the bag. Some dogs do perfectly well on food described this way. The point is that you have no way to know what you are feeding, and no way to compare it against anything else.

This is sold as a working dog food, where price per kilo genuinely matters and buyers are feeding several dogs at once. That is a real constraint and not one to be sniffy about. But there are working-dog foods on this site that cost about the same and actually tell you what is in the bag, which is the comparison worth making.

If this is what fits your budget, look at the alternatives below before your next order rather than switching on the strength of a number.