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Forthglade Natural Dental Sticks for Dogs review

One of the weakest treat foods we have rated. The label keeps too much vague. The breakdown below shows exactly where every point went.

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ODF Score 15/100 Avoid
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Top 96%scores higher than 4% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Avoidscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
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 47/100 across 12 ingredients (declared percentages used for 5, position estimates for the rest). Named meat is only 0% of the recognised recipe, so the quality score is anchored down towards a plant-led food.
15 / 40
Label clarity
Vague category terms on the label (vegetable fibre) - naming points withheld; percentages cover 8% of the recipe (+0.5); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
2.5 / 15
Additives
Added sugars/sweeteners (-4); declared additives below our neutral line, weakest being vegetable glycerine (-5.3).
0.8 / 10
Red flags
Vegetable glycerine at position 4 (-16).
-16 / 0
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
15 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 15 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 15 of a possible 40. 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 no meat percentage at all, so there is no way to verify how much of the recipe is animal protein, and the ingredient list leans on vague groupings instead of naming what is actually in the bag.

Ingredients

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

Additives (as declared on the label)
Technological additives: Natural antioxidants [tocopherols derived from vegetable oils].

Nutrition

No declared analysis yet

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

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