Green Petfood Dog Food Review & Ratings

Green Petfood is a German brand doing something genuinely unusual: replacing conventional meat with insect protein in one food and with plant protein in the other. Across 6 rated foods it averages 45/100 (Average), ranking 260 of 304, with 19 points between them.

Be careful how you read that average. Our score rewards named animal protein making up a large share of the recipe, because for most foods that is the best available signal of quality. A food built on insect meal or on vegetable protein is not trying to do that, so it scores lower without necessarily being a worse food for a given dog. Green Petfood InsectDog is the stronger of the two at 58/100, and the insect recipe outscoring the vegetarian one is exactly what you would expect.

There are real reasons to buy either. Insect protein is a legitimate novel protein for dogs who react to the common meats, and it is the most credible answer anyone has yet given to the environmental cost of feeding a dog. Those are honest arguments and we are not going to talk you out of them with a number.

What we will say is that a vegetarian diet is a bigger decision than a novel-protein one, and dogs are not built the same way people are. If you are going that route, do it with your vet rather than on the strength of a brand's marketing.

If your dog reacts to chicken, beef and lamb, this range is worth knowing about. If you are simply shopping for the best-scoring food, our numbers will point you elsewhere - and that is a limitation of the score as much as a verdict on the brand.