The Pack

The Pack Oven Baked Dry Food review

Name: The Pack Oven Baked Dry Food
Brand: The Pack

38.6/100Average

DryAdult

A carefully engineered meat-free kibble. Plant concentrates bring protein to 25.0%, the amino acids a plant diet most often misses are dosed in print, and algae oil does the job a fish oil would. It sits in our Average band only because our scoring leans on animal content, and this has none by design.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Households feeding a plant-based diet
Dogs that have reacted to several meats, since every gram of protein is from plants and yeast
Owners who want the plant gaps covered in print: methionine, lysine and taurine all dosed
A dog better off with a little less starch than the usual kibble
Fussier eaters, with an oven-baked texture and peanut butter for flavour

Worth watching

A far bigger change than a flavour swap for a meat-fed dog, so move across slowly
Naked oats and fermented rye, so grain is in
Sweet lupin at 10%, a legume worth mentioning to your vet if legumes have caused trouble
Peanut butter, for a home where nut allergies matter

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

How this scores

How we score

38.6/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, and calcium sits low enough for a large breed. Switch over gradually across a week or two.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

The Pack Oven Baked Dry Food 38.6

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Our scoring rewards named animal content, so a meat-free recipe starts from a gap it cannot close; taken on its own terms it holds up well.

What's in it

Dried potato flakesLeads the carbohydrate.
Sweet lupin flour10%The biggest single protein source, a legume most owners will not know.
Green peas10%
Rapeseed oilA well balanced everyday oil.
Rice protein, pea protein, potato protein7% eachConcentrates: the protein fraction pulled out of a plant.
Dried sweet potato, naked oats5% sweet potato
Hydrolyzed yeast, yeast, minerals
Peanut butter, olive oilPeanut butter is there for flavour; note it in a nut-allergic home.
Linseed, algae oil, dried chicoryAlgae oil is the one that counts: long-chain omega 3 straight from the source.
Alfalfa, pumpkin, apple, fermented rye, vegetables, seaweed, spirulina, fruits, herbs0.1% ryeSeaweed brings iodine; the fermented rye supports digestion.

Methionine and lysine at 5000 mg each and taurine at 1500 mg, zinc as a glycine chelate, selenium from selenised yeast, and copper, manganese and iodine dosed; iron is named without a figure.

Iron is the one trace element with no dose beside it.

Named ingredients

Dried Potato Flakes, Sweet Lupin Flour (10%), Green Peas (10%), Rapeseed Oil, Rice Protein (7%), Pea Protein (7%), Potato Protein 7%), Dried Sweet Potato (5%), Naked Oats, Hydrolyzed Yeast, Minerals, Peanut Butter, Olive Oil, Dried Alfalfa, Yeast (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae) (1%), Linseed, Dried Pumpkin, Dried Apple, Algae Oil, Dried Chicory (a natural source of FOS and inulin), Fermented Rye (0.1%), Dried Vegetables - Spinach, Tomato, Beetroot, Dried Algae - Seaweed, Spirulina, Dried Fruits - Cranberry, Blueberry, Dried Herbs & Spices - Chamomile, Marigold, Nettle, Turmeric, Parsley, Sage.

Against the range

One oven-baked, plant-based recipe with no animal ingredient on the list. The protein is assembled from lupin, peas and three plant concentrates, with methionine and lysine added at 5000 mg each and taurine at 1500 mg to close the gaps. Algae oil supplies the long-chain omega 3 a meat-free food would otherwise lack. Carbohydrate converts to 43.5% of dry matter, and calcium to 1.11%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

343.7 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

3.7%

Ash

8.1%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

27.8%

Fat

15.6%

Fibre

4.1%

Ash

Carbs

43.5%

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

81.1%

Veg

1.5%

Oils

Other

8.4%

Pricing & size