Gusto Dog Food Review & Ratings

Gusto sits near the bottom of our rankings. Across 2 rated foods it averages 15/100 (Avoid), ranking 283 of 290 brands, and the two foods sit within 1 point of each other.

A number that low usually means we are missing label data, so it is worth being precise. That is not what is happening here. The labels parsed; there is simply very little on them. These are cereal-led recipes described in broad category terms, with no named meat and no declared percentage of the things that matter. Our score is not marking down the recipe - it is marking down the fact that the recipe is not disclosed.

Terms like meat and animal derivatives are legal and common. In practice they let a manufacturer change what goes in from batch to batch, depending on what is cheap that month, without altering a word on the bag. Some dogs do fine on food described that way. The problem is that you cannot know what you are feeding, and you cannot compare it against anything.

Gusto is made in Wales by Gold Line Pet Foods, alongside better-labelled ranges from the same site, and it is sold into the budget and working-dog end of the market where price per kilo genuinely decides the purchase. That is a real constraint. But there are foods on this site at a similar cost per day that tell you what is in the bag, and that is the comparison worth making before your next order.