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Innocent Hound Air-Dried Food review

An solid, honest air-dried food. 70% declared meat content leads the label, and the label tells you exactly what is inside. Feeding it costs about £2.88 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 60/100 Good
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Top 69%scores higher than 31% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£2.88 approx.per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 44% of air-dried foods
70%declared meat content
United Kingdombrand origin
340kcal per 100 g

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 82/100 across 11 ingredients (declared percentages used for 3, position estimates for the rest).
32.7 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 78% of the recipe (+4.7); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
13.7 / 15
Additives
Added sugars/sweeteners (-4); declared additives below our neutral line, weakest being Rapeseed Glycerine (-5.3).
0.8 / 10
Red flags
Rapeseed Glycerine at position 2 (-16).
-16 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 70%. Held to dry-matter protein: 28.2% DM protein supports this level of meat credit, not the full declared figure.
13.1 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 37% dry matter (moderate); fat 23.1% DM in the healthy band; fibre 3.2% DM (+2); ash 8.3% DM - sensible mineral load (+1.8); functional extras: pre/probiotics (+1).
7.6 / 10
Processing
Air-dried - gentle preservation.
8 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
60 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 60 down: the biggest single loss is additives, where it takes 0.8 of a possible 10. Its strongest showing is label transparency at 13.7 of 15. 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 70% meat, which is unusually specific - most brands never print a figure at all, and the ingredient list names things individually rather than hiding them in catch-all categories.

At about £2.88 a day to feed a 10kg dog, the question is not whether it is cheap but whether the label justifies the price - and on our scoring, it broadly does.

Ingredients

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

Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label
Additives (as declared on the label)
Vitamin a 19672iu, Vitamin D3 984iu, Vitamin E 164mg, Taurine 1066mg, Zinc (as Zinc Sulphate) 74mg, Iron (as Iron II Sulphate) 57mg, Manganese (as Manganous Sulphate) 11mg, Copper (as Copper II Sulphate ) 7mg, Iodine (as Calcium Iodate) 1.6mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite ) 0.08mg, Dl Methionine 1967mg.

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
3 kg£55.00£18.33

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 157 g a day = £2.88 / day, £87.55 / month.

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 10 kg dog works out near 534 kcal).
  2. Portion: divide that by this food's energy density, 340 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £18.33 / kg, for the daily cost, then by 30.4 days for the month.

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

28.2 % DM
Directory average: 39.5

Fat

23.1 % DM
Directory average: 22.5

Est. carbs

37.2 % DM
Directory average: 29

Fibre

3.2 % DM
Directory average: 3

Ash

8.3 % DM
Directory average: 8.2

Energy

340 kcal/100g
Directory average: 402.1

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

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