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Purely Bozita Grain Free Mother & Puppy Elk review

A middling dry food - fine, with clear compromises. 40% declared meat content is respectable, and the label keeps too much vague. Feeding it costs about £1.15 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 49/100 Average
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Top 76%scores higher than 24% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Averagescore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£1.15per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 7% of dry foods
40%declared meat content

Where the points went

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

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 52/100 across 14 ingredients (declared percentages used for 5, position estimates for the rest). Legumes carry 30% 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.
20.8 / 40
Label clarity
Vague category terms on the label (bone fat, lignocellulose) - naming points withheld; percentages cover 10% of the recipe (+0.6); meat sources named (+2); variable-composition wording - fixed-formula points withheld.
2.6 / 15
Additives
No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.
10 / 10
Red flags
Bone fat at position 4 (-12).
-12 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 40%.
13 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 37% dry matter (moderate); fat 17.7% DM in the healthy band; fibre 4.4% DM (+2); ash 7.7% DM - sensible mineral load (+2); functional extras: pre/probiotics, omega-3 source (+2).
8.9 / 10
Processing
Assumed extruded kibble (standard high-heat process).
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
49 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 49 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 20.8 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is additives at 10 of 10. On top of that, 12 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 40% meat, which is a real number, which already puts it ahead of the many that print none, and the ingredient list leans on vague groupings instead of naming what is actually in the bag.

At about £1.15 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.

Additives (as declared on the label)
Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (15,000 IU), vitamin D3 (780 IU), vitamin E (100mg), vitamin C (100mg), copper [as cupric-(II)-sulphate pentahydrate] (23mg), manganese [as manganous-(II)-oxide] (9.6mg), zinc [as zinc sulphate monohydrate] (102mg), iodine [as calcium iodate anhydrous] (18mg), selenium [as selenium yeast] (50mg). Technological additives: Antioxidants.

Feeding & cost

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

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
11 kg--
22 kg--

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 149 g a day = £1.15 / day, £34.96 / 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, 358 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £7.73 / 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. This is a puppy food, but the figures above are for an adult dog at maintenance - the same reference we use on every food so costs stay comparable. A growing puppy needs roughly twice the energy for its weight, so feed to the pack, not to this. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

Declared analysis converted to a dry-matter basis, so wet and dry foods compare fairly.

Protein

33.1 % DM
Directory average: 28.2

Fat

17.7 % DM
Directory average: 14.8

Est. carbs

37 % DM
Directory average: 45.2

Fibre

4.4 % DM
Directory average: 3.6

Ash

7.7 % DM
Directory average: 7.9

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

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