Salters Dog Food Review & Ratings

Salters is consistent, and consistency is the most interesting thing about it. Across 4 rated foods it averages 57/100 (Average), ranking 223 of 290, with only 11 points between the best and the worst. Whatever you pick off this shelf, you get roughly the same food.

That is worth something. Plenty of brands on this site have a flagship recipe that scores well and a value line that quietly does not, and buyers get caught out by the badge on the front. Salters does not do that - Salters Energy tops the range at 61/100 and the floor is 50, which is close behind.

Where the range loses points is the recipe shape rather than any single bad ingredient. These are cereal-based dry foods across the board, and our score weights named meat content and specific ingredient declarations heavily. A food built around rice and a moderate meat percentage lands in the middle of our scale by design, not by accident.

The extra virgin olive oil the brand leads with is a genuine differentiator in marketing terms, and it is a perfectly good fat. It is not, by itself, worth a lot of points - our score cares more about what makes up the bulk of the bag.

If you feed Salters, you are feeding a mid-table British food with no unpleasant surprises in it. If you want to move up the scale, the foods that outscore it mostly do so by putting more named meat in and saying so on the label.