Barking Heads

Barking Heads Puppy Days Wet Food review

Name: Barking Heads Puppy Days Wet Food
Brand: Barking Heads

77/100Excellent

WetPuppy

About as short and as meaty as a puppy recipe gets, and it sits in our Excellent band. Chicken is the only meat, at 85% with the broth counted, and carbohydrate stops at an estimated 11.3% of dry matter. The gap is calcium, which the label never prints.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies raised on chicken, the only meat here
Starch kept right down: carbohydrate is an estimated 11.3% of dry matter
Pups that leave the water bowl alone. Moisture is declared at 76.0%
Grain-free households, with sweet potato, carrot, courgette and peas in place of cereal
A topper over kibble, which the maker sets out how to do

Worth watching

Salmon oil, so a pup kept to chicken alone still meets fish
No calcium figure, the one number a large or giant breed growth plan turns on
Broth is 25% of the 85% chicken, and broth is mostly water

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

77/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every adult size. For a large or giant breed, get the calcium figure from Barking Heads before this becomes the only food in the bowl.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Barking Heads Puppy Days Wet Food 77.0

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

In a category already strong, it clears the middle of the field comfortably.

What's in it

Fresh deboned chicken60%The meat doing the nutritional work, generous for a wet food.
Chicken broth25%Counted in the 85% chicken headline; largely water.
Sweet potato, carrot, courgette, peasNo percentages, and very little starch.
Salmon oilMarine omega 3 for brain and coat, and fish in the bowl.
Sunflower oil
Lucerne, seaweed, parsley, celerySeaweed brings iodine.
Chicory rootPrebiotic fibre for the gut bacteria.
Nettle, turmeric, aniseed
MineralsAsh is 10.4% of dry matter, but the calcium split is not published.

Vitamin D3 and E, with zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, each printed with a figure.

No calcium declared on a puppy food offered for large and giant breeds.

Named ingredients

85% Chicken includes - Fresh Deboned Chicken (60%), Chicken Broth (25%), Sweet Potato, Carrot, Courgette, Peas, Salmon Oil, Sunflower Oil, Lucerne, Seaweed, Parsley, Celery, Chicory Root, Nettle, Turmeric, Aniseed, Minerals

Against the range

One short, meaty growth recipe. Chicken makes 85% of it, split on the label into 60% fresh deboned meat and 25% broth, and everything after is vegetables, two named oils and a run of herbs.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

107.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11%

Fat

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

76%

Dry weight

Protein

45.8%

Fat

29.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.4%

Carbs

11.3%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

100%

Pricing & size