Every dog food brand, ranked by value.

Prime100

Australia

Good

Single-protein, limited-ingredient Australian range that does the elimination-diet job well and lists its ingredients clearly. The catch is cost: the rolls in particular work out expensive per kg for what's largely a simple recipe, and the sprawl of formats across air-dried, fresh and dry makes like-for-like value hard to pin down.

Black Hawk

Australia

Good

A popular premium-mainstream brand that's everywhere and reasonably priced in big bags — but its strength is reach, not ingredients. Quality swings noticeably across the range: the better formulas lead with named meat, while cheaper lines lean on rice and grain to bulk out the panel. You're partly paying for shelf presence and marketing, so read the specific recipe rather than the brand badge.

SavourLife

Australia

Good

Australian brand with a genuine rescue-donation model and fair per-kg value. Ingredient quality is solid mid-premium rather than class-leading — the panels don't reach the named-meat density of the top air-dried feeds, and the range is narrow with patchy stocking. A likeable, reasonably priced option, just don't let the feel-good story stand in for a category-leading ingredient panel.

Ivory Coat

Australia

Good

Australian grain-free and grain-inclusive ranges with a tidy ingredient story, but it doesn't lead on a single metric — middling on ingredients, transparency and value alike. Now part of a large multi-brand group (Real Pet Food Company) after changing hands, and recipes have shifted with ownership, so consistency is a fair question. Acceptable, not a standout.

Royal Canin

France / Multiple

Average

The vet-clinic heavyweight, and the clinical research genuinely is best-in-class. But the everyday ingredient panels don't match the price: they lean on by-product meals, corn and grain rather than named single-source protein, and you're paying a high price per kg for the brand's vet-clinic shelf presence and breed-specific marketing as much as for what's in the bag. The therapeutic lines earn their keep; the standard ranges are expensive for the ingredient quality.

Hill's Science Diet

USA / Multiple

Average

A science-led brand with a deep, well-researched prescription range — clinically rigorous and consistent. Outside the therapeutic lines, though, the value is below average for the price: the standard panels lean on corn, grain and by-product meals rather than named single-source protein, and you carry a vet-clinic price premium for the brand and its shelf presence. The prescription range is the reason to buy it, not the everyday food.

Providore

Australia

Average

A premium-styled range sold through a single retailer. The formulas are reasonable and the price is sharp, but transparency is the weak spot: sourcing and ownership detail is thinner than national brands, and a retailer house range gives you less independent insight into what's in each batch. The 'premium' look outpaces the sourcing detail behind it, so judge it strictly on price-per-kg, not packaging.

The Nosh Project

Australia

Average

A modern, heavily-marketed retailer-exclusive range where the branding does a lot of the work. The formulas are pleasant enough, but transparency lags national brands and a single-retailer house range gives you limited insight into sourcing and batch consistency. Slick packaging isn't a substitute for ingredient detail — price it per kg against independent brands rather than buying the look.

Leaps & Bounds

Australia

Average

Leaps & Bounds is Petbarn's own private-label (house) brand — affordable, Australian-made and stocked in every store. It's a budget everyday option rather than a premium one: the recipes use more grain and cereal than the top-scoring brands, and as a retailer-owned label there's a little less published sourcing detail. Reasonable value if you're shopping at Petbarn — just compare price-per-kg with the national brands sitting on the same shelf.

ProBalance

Australia

Poor value

A budget-tier value brand that's cheap per bag but built down to a price. Ingredient quality scores low on our index: the panels lean on grain and plant protein rather than named single-source meat, and sourcing detail is sparse. The low sticker is real, but cost-per-day narrows the gap to a better-specced premium bag more than the shelf price suggests.

Woofin' Good!

Australia

Poor value

Coles' supermarket house brand — very cheap and convenient with the weekly shop, but firmly a budget product. It scores low because the panels are cereal-led rather than meat-first, sourcing detail is thin for a retailer house brand, and even after a named-protein reformulation the meat content sits well below the premium tier. Handy for the price; judge it on cost-per-day, not the low sticker.

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Aldi's everyday house brand — very cheap per kg and convenient, but firmly entry-level. It scores low because the panels are cereal-led rather than named-meat-first, sourcing detail is minimal, and the meat content sits well below the premium tier. A no-frills budget feed where the low price is doing all the work; weigh it on cost-per-day, not the sticker.

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Woolworths' long-running supermarket house brand and one of the cheapest feeds per kg available. It sits near the bottom of our index for a clear reason: cereal-led panels rather than named meat, minimal sourcing detail behind the label, and meat content among the lowest in the range. The price is the entire pitch — there's little ingredient story to weigh against it.

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The lowest-priced house brand in our index, stocked across IGA and independents. It also sits at the very bottom on quality, and the two go together: basic, cereal-led recipes rather than named meat, the thinnest sourcing detail of any brand here, and meat content at the bottom of the range. The rock-bottom price is the only reason to reach for it — there's no ingredient story to speak of.

Natural Animal Solutions

Australia

Excellent

Our benchmark supplement range and the one every other brand here gets measured against. Australian, naturopath-founded, and genuinely 100% natural — no added preservatives, no fillers, no padding the label. The transparency is exemplary and the formulas are single-purpose and clean, which is exactly why owner sentiment for skin, coat and joint support is so strong. Not a complete food, but as a complement to a good diet it's as pure and honest as this category gets.

Strong

Vet-developed joint, skin and coat support from Blackmores, with strong availability across pet and pharmacy retailers. A respectable range — but it sits a clear notch below the purest single-ingredient supplements: the formulas are broader and more processed, carry more added excipients than a strictly natural product, and the pharmacy-brand positioning adds a premium per dose. Good and widely trusted, just not as clean or as simple as the category's best.

The Paw Grocer

Australia

Excellent

Our benchmark treat range and the standard we hold the rest to. 100% Australian, human-grade and genuinely single-ingredient, freeze-dried with minimal processing and nothing else added. The ingredient clarity is total — you know exactly what your dog is eating — which makes it brilliant for training, fussy eaters and topping a meal. A treat to feed alongside a complete diet, and about as clean as treats get.

Good

Melbourne-made, Australian-owned grain-free treats across dental sticks, freeze-dried and training rewards. The recipes are likeable and the labels are reasonably clean — but it sits a clear notch below the purest treats: most products are multi-ingredient compound recipes (the dental sticks rely on binders and added ingredients to hold their shape) rather than the strict single-ingredient simplicity of the category's best, and the price per treat is on the high side for what's a broader formulation. Good, popular, well-marketed — just not as pure or as simple as a single-ingredient range.