Head to head
Dog food comparisons
Every comparison scores both sides with the same 100-point methodology: value, ingredients, nutrition, transparency, availability and customer sentiment. No pay-to-play, and the same rules for every brand.
Reviewed by the Dog Food Reviews editorial team
Independent scoringUpdated August 2026Not veterinary advice
Index edition· Both sides read from the same scores
18
Comparisons published
12
Brands covered
1 pts
Closest head to head
10 pts
Widest head to head
Featured
The four we wrote in full.
Long-form head to heads with their own cost objects, pillar ledgers and verdicts, rather than a template applied to a pair of slugs.
The full ledger
Every published head to head, by how close it was.
Closest call first. The margin is the gap between the two published overall scores, so a two-point row is a genuine toss-up and a twenty-point row is not a comparison so much as a warning.
| Head to head | Score | Score | Margin | Leads on score | Read the comparison |
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| SavourLife vs Black Hawk | 75 out of 100 | 76 out of 100 | 1 pts | Black Hawk | |
| Black Hawk vs Prime100 | 76 out of 100 | 78 out of 100 | 2 pts | Prime100 | |
| Royal Canin vs Hill's Science Diet | 68 out of 100 | 66 out of 100 | 2 pts | Royal Canin | |
| Meals for Mutts vs Black Hawk | 74 out of 100 | 76 out of 100 | 2 pts | Black Hawk | |
| Scratch vs Frontier Pets | 86 out of 100 | 84 out of 100 | 2 pts | Scratch | |
| ZIWI Peak vs Prime100 | 81 out of 100 | 78 out of 100 | 3 pts | ZIWI Peak | |
| Scratch vs Petzyo | 86 out of 100 | 83 out of 100 | 3 pts | Scratch | |
| ZIWI Peak vs Frontier Pets | 81 out of 100 | 84 out of 100 | 3 pts | Frontier Pets | |
| Black Hawk vs Ivory Coat | 76 out of 100 | 71 out of 100 | 5 pts | Black Hawk | |
| Scratch vs ZIWI Peak | 86 out of 100 | 81 out of 100 | 5 pts | Scratch | |
| Petzyo vs Black Hawk | 83 out of 100 | 76 out of 100 | 7 pts | Petzyo | |
| Black Hawk vs Royal Canin | 76 out of 100 | 68 out of 100 | 8 pts | Black Hawk | |
| Black Hawk vs Hill's Science Diet | 76 out of 100 | 66 out of 100 | 10 pts | Black Hawk | |
| Scratch vs Black Hawk | 86 out of 100 | 76 out of 100 | 10 pts | Scratch |
What is inside one
A comparison is six readings, not a winner.
Every head to head runs both brands through the same published model and prints the whole ledger, including the pillars where our own pick loses.
Licensed editorial photography
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Both sides, one model
Value, ingredient quality, nutrition, transparency, availability and customer sentiment, weighted the same way for both brands. Neither side gets a lens the other did not face.
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Cost per day, not shelf price
Prices are editorial estimates entered by hand, then standardised to what it costs to feed a roughly 15kg adult dog for one day. Bag price alone cannot compare a 20kg sack with a frozen bowl.
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The pillars our pick loses
Every comparison prints all six rows, including the ones where the higher-scoring brand is behind. A comparison that only shows the winning rows is an advertisement.
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Nothing is for sale
No brand pays to appear in a comparison or to be placed on either side of one. We currently earn nothing from links on this site; if that changes, affected pages will say so at the top.
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