Green Petfood

Green Petfood VeggieDog: Grainfree review

Name: Green Petfood VeggieDog: Grainfree
Brand: Green Petfood

40.5/100Average

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

A complete dry food with nothing from an animal in it, made for plant-based homes and for dogs who have run out of meats they tolerate. Both recipes land in our Average band. The part a meat-free bowl has to get right, taurine and L-carnitine, is dosed on both panels.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Plant-based households who want a complete food, not a home-made one
A dog who has reacted to one animal protein after another
Exclusion diets run with a vet: no meat makes a clean starting point
Owners who want the amino acid gaps covered in print
Bigger dogs, with both feeding tables running to 80kg

Worth watching

Every gram of protein is plant protein, which a dog uses less efficiently, so the analysis reads better than it eats
Vegetable oil with no plant named on either recipe
Carbohydrate at 50.9% of dry matter on Grainfree and 57.6% on Origin
Talk a meat-free diet through with your vet first, above all for a growing, pregnant or unwell dog

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

How this scores

How we score

40.5/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs from 5kg up to 80kg. No moisture is declared, so our dry-matter figures assume 8%; check the plan with your vet before switching.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Medium, Large

The score, in context

Grainfree 40.5
Origin 37.6

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Our scoring rewards named animal protein, so a food built without any starts a long way back; the pillars, and how your dog does on it, are the better read.

What's in it

Dried potato17.5%
Dried sweet potato
Pea flour17%The main protein source.
Potato proteinPlant protein, less complete and less digestible for a dog than meat.
Vegetable oilThe plant behind it is not named.
Partially hydrolysed yeast
Apple fibre, beet fibreFibre for the gut.
Minerals, hydrolysed vegetable protein
Ground chicory rootInulin, food for the helpful bacteria in the large intestine.
Herbs and fruits: raspberry to fennel0.1%Decoration, not nutrition.

Taurine and L-carnitine at 250 mg, the B group, biotin, vitamins A, D3, E and C, and zinc and copper as glycine chelates.

Named ingredients

Dried potato : 17.5 %, dried sweet potato, pea flour (natural source of amino acids) : 17 %, potato protein, vegetable oil, partially hydrolysed yeast, apple fibre, beet fibre, minerals, hydrolysed vegetable protein, ground chicory root (natural source of inulin), herbs, fruits (raspberry, peppermint, parsley, chokeberry, chamomile, licorice root, blueberry, marigold, fennel) : 0.1 %

Against the range

Grain: None; Origin is built on rice.
Fat, dry matter: 15.2%; 9.8% on Origin.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 50.9%; 57.6% on Origin.
Energy: 372 kcal per 100g; 356 on Origin.

The richer of the two, with more fibre.

Two complete dry foods with no animal ingredient at all. Protein comes from pea flour, potato protein, red lentil and hydrolysed vegetable protein, and both declare 23.9% of dry matter. Both panels print taurine and L-carnitine with doses, along with the full B group, biotin, vitamin C and zinc as a glycine chelate.

Vegetable oil is the added fat on both, with no plant named. One recipe is grain free on potato and pea; the other is built on rice and red lentil. Neither declares moisture or calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

371.7 kcal/100g

Protein

22%

Fat

14%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

23.9%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

50.9%

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.

Carbs

82.2%

Veg

4.6%

Oils

6.1%

Other

Pricing & size