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Pro-Nutrition Pure Life Adult Light/Sterilised review

A weak dry food by the label. Just 5% declared meat content, and the label keeps too much vague. Feeding it costs about £1.47 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 38/100 Poor
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Top 84%scores higher than 16% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Poorscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£1.47 approx.per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 2% of dry foods
5%declared meat content
Francebrand origin
326kcal 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 50/100 across 31 ingredients (declared percentages used for 2, position estimates for the rest). Legumes carry 32% of the recipe. The FDA found no causal link between legume-rich diets and canine heart disease (DCM), though some cardiologists advise caution - noted for information, not scored.
20 / 40
Label clarity
Vague category terms on the label (Dehydrated Animal Protein, Hydrolysates of Animal Proteins) - naming points withheld; percentages cover 28% of the recipe (+1.7); meat sources named (+2); variable-composition wording - fixed-formula points withheld.
3.7 / 15
Additives
No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.
10 / 10
Red flags
Dehydrated Animal Protein leads the label (-10).
-10 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 5%.
4 / 15
Nutritional balance
Composition not fully declared - scored neutral (4/10) until the analytical constituents are published.
4 / 10
Processing
Assumed extruded kibble (standard high-heat process).
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
38 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 38 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 20 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is additives at 10 of 10. On top of that, 10 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 5% meat, which is a low figure, and a declared low figure is still more honest than silence, and the ingredient list leans on vague groupings instead of naming what is actually in the bag.

At about £1.47 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 does not.

Ingredients

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

Meat & fish

Dehydrated Animal Protein 27%Including 5% Chicken 5%TurkeyPorkDehydrated FishHydrolysates of Animal ProteinsFish Autolysates 0.5%

Fruit & veg

Faba Bean FibresPotato StarchPea StarchSweet PotatoPeasApple FibreArtichokeDehydrated CarrotsSeaweedSquashCranberryBlackcurrantGranadaAcerolaSea BuckthornBlueberryMelon

Oils & fats

Duck FatRapeseed OilFish Oil

Supplements & extras

FlaxseedBrewer's YeastFructooligosaccharidesFennelSea SaltYeast ExtractsSaccharomyces CerevisiaeCiberlindera JadiniVitamins and Trace Elements
Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label
Additives (as declared on the label)
(per kg) L-Carnitine 50mg, Taurine 400mg, Copper 19mg, Zinc 197mg (of which Zinc Chelated 69mg/kg), Manganese 65mg, Iodine 4.9mg, Selenium 0.42mg (of which Organic Selenium 0.05mg/kg), Vitamin a 17100mg, Vitamin D3 1240mg, Vitamin E 205mg, Vitamin C 175mg, Vitamin B1 103mg, Vitamin B2 10.7mg, Vitamin B5 - Pantothenic Acid 43mg, Vitamin B6 10.2mg, Vitamin B12 0.22mg, Vitamin Pp 43mg, Biotin 2.7mg, Vitamin B9 Folic Acid 2.3mg, Choline Chloride 1800mg.

Feeding & cost

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

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
2 kg£18.00£9.00

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 164 g a day = £1.48 / day, £44.99 / 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, 326 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £9.00 / 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

29.3 % DM
Directory average: 28.2

Energy

326 kcal/100g
Directory average: 365.3

Moisture isn't declared on this label - dry-matter figures assume 8% (typical for a dry food) and are marked estimated.

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