Seven questions, answered against the 243 recipes we have read from their own labels and scored under our published rubric. No discounts, no sponsored order, no email gate: the matches are ranked by label score and each one prints the facts that put it there.
Answer the questions and press Find matches. Your answers also land in the page address, so a set of choices can be bookmarked.
Two rules are hard, because they are safety rules. A recipe whose label does not cover the life stage you picked never appears, and a recipe carrying a protein you marked as must-avoid never appears: the check runs over every animal line on the panel, fats included, because a strict elimination trial has to count them. Products labelled supplemental only (toppers and mixers, not complete diets) are excluded throughout, exactly as on our lists.
The rest are preferences, and the finder treats them that way in the open. Format, grains, goal and protein level are applied in that order; if they would leave fewer than three matches, the softest preference is dropped, then the next, and the results say plainly which ones were relaxed. The life stage and must-avoid rules are never relaxed.
The goal question changes the maths, not the marketing. Weight loss keeps the maker's own weight recipes plus dry adult foods at or under 3,500 kcal/kg, the light band of our database, and drops the ration factor to 1.4 when a weight is given. A very active dog needs protein to rebuild what work breaks down, so the goal asks for 40 percent protein or more on a dry matter basis and uses the 1.8 factor for the ration. Keeping weight steady changes nothing.
We publish no prices. A price enters our database only when we have verified it from a dated listing, and we had verified none when these labels were read, so the price signal in our rubric is marked not scored on every review. Inventing a budget tier from guesses would put a number we never checked into a decision about a dog's food; the finder would rather ask one question fewer. Food cost by breed and tier, with the method shown, is in our food expense calculator.
Each result links to the recipe's own review page: the full ingredient list with notes, the signal by signal score breakdown, the brand's FDA recall record and a feeding table. Portion by the calorie line on the bag you buy, switch foods over about a week, and use our feeding calculator for stages and workloads the finder does not ask about. If your dog has a diagnosed condition, the shortlist is reading material for a conversation with your vet, not a prescription.
Last updated: November 2026. Checked against the sources named on this page.