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Pooch & Mutt · dry

Pooch & Mutt Calm & Relaxed review

A solid, honest dry food. 25% declared meat content is respectable. Feeding it costs about 92p a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 79/100 Good
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Top 37%scores higher than 63% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£0.92per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 20% of dry foods
25%declared meat content
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 74/100 across 20 ingredients (declared percentages used for 11, position estimates for the rest).
29.7 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 45% of the recipe (+2.7); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
11.7 / 15
Additives
No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.
10 / 10
Red flags
No red-flag ingredients.
0 / 0
Meat content
Meat content ~65.8% fresh-equivalent (added up from every named meat on the label; dried meats counted at their fresh weight).
15 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 47% dry matter (high); fat 13.3% DM in the healthy band; fibre 3.9% DM (+2); ash 8.3% DM - sensible mineral load (+1.8); functional extras: omega-3 source, named botanicals, joint support, pre/probiotics (+2).
7.1 / 10
Processing
Assumed extruded kibble (standard high-heat process).
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
79 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 79 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 29.7 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is declared meat content at 15 of 15.

The label declares 25% meat, which is a real number, which already puts it ahead of the many that print none, and the ingredient list is only partly specific.

At about 92p 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.

Meat & fish

Fresh turkey 25%turkey protein 17%

Fruit & veg

sweet potatopotatoespeasdried beet pulpalfalfapea proteindried cranberries 0.04%

Oils & fats

turkey fat 1.5%

Supplements & extras

brewer's yeastturkey gravy 1.5%linseeddried chamomile 0.19%glucosamine 0.03%chondroitin sulphate 0.02%mannanoligosaccharides 0.02%fructooligosaccharides 0.01%mojave yucca 0.01%lactobacillus acidophilus ha - 122 inactivated 15 x 109 cells/kg
Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label
Additives (as declared on the label)
Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (18,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1800 IU), L-Tryptophan (2000mg), vitamin E (400mg), L-Carnitine (450mg), vitamin B1 (12mg), vitamin B2 (1.0mg), niacinamide (15mg), calcium-D-pantothenate (12mg), vitamin B6 (1.0mg), folic acid (0.6mg), vitamin B12 (0.04mg), biotin (0.72mg), choline chloride (720mg), zinc (100mg), iron (93mg), manganese (43mg), copper (17mg), iodine (0.7mg), selenium (0.2mg). Contains EU approved natural antioxidants: tocopherol extracts from vegetable oil (1b306(i)), ascorbyl palmitate (1b304) and rosemary extract.

Feeding & cost

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

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
2 kg--
10 kg--

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 159 g a day = £0.92 / day, £27.97 / 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, 337 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £5.79 / 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

27.8 % DM
Directory average: 28.2

Fat

13.3 % DM
Directory average: 14.8

Est. carbs

46.7 % DM
Directory average: 45.2

Fibre

3.9 % DM
Directory average: 3.6

Ash

8.3 % DM
Directory average: 7.9

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

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