Pet Food Value Checker | Dogs & Cats + Breed Health Tips

Upload a photo of the food or can packaging, or enter the numbers printed on it, and get your pet's daily feeding cost and true nutritional value - calculated with standard veterinary nutrition formulas and official AAFCO standards. Not an AI-guessed opinion: every number has a calculation behind it.

📖 Please Read Before Use

📸 Have a package photo ready (front + guaranteed analysis on the back), or the price, weight, and nutrient numbers from the label
🐾 Tell me your pet's weight and whether they're spayed/neutered to get their daily calorie needs
⚖️ Compare up to 3 products at a time
❌ Nutrition and cost calculations only - no diagnosis or treatment advice

After the analysis, you can ask follow-up questions about portion sizes, switching foods, breed considerations, and more.

The core insight most owners never compute - and it can flip what the label seems to say

A wet food label says 9% protein, a dry food says 26% - the instinct is that the dry food has far more protein. But that's an illusion created by moisture content. Converted to a "dry matter basis" (the fair comparison after removing water), the wet food can actually be more concentrated. Real tested example: wet food dry-matter protein 40.9% > dry food's 28.9% - the ranking completely flips.

Cats need special attention here: cats are obligate carnivores, and AAFCO's official minimum protein standard is almost 50% higher than for dogs (26% for adult cats vs 18% for adult dogs, dry-matter basis). A protein number that's plenty for a dog may fall short for a cat - this tool automatically checks against the correct species-specific standard.

What you can ask it

• Daily calorie needs: "My 30 kg neutered dog - how much should it eat per day?"
• Single-product cost check: upload a packaging photo, or enter the price, package weight, and guaranteed analysis
• Product comparison: "Is this wet food or this dry food the better value?"
• Breed health awareness: mention the breed and get a heads-up on common issues to watch for (Golden Retriever, Persian, Ragdoll, and other common breeds are covered)

The honest parts

• Every number is calculated by formula from the numbers actually printed on your package - never an AI guess or something looked up online
• If calories are estimated from the guaranteed analysis (not printed on the package), that's always clearly labeled
• Daily calorie needs are population-average estimates - individual pets vary, so check with your vet if weight changes unexpectedly
• Breed health notes are "worth watching for, worth discussing screening" - not a diagnosis, and not a guarantee your pet will develop anything
• This is a calculation tool, not a vet - puppies/kittens, pregnant/nursing pets, or anything involving actual disease judgment should always go to a vet

Example

Input:

My Golden Retriever is 30 kg and neutered. A 13 oz (369g) can of wet food costs $3.49: protein 9%, fat 6%, fiber 1%, moisture 78%, ash 2.5%. A 30 lb (13.6 kg) bag of dry food costs $64.99: 3600 kcal/kg, protein 26%, moisture 10%. Which is the better value?

Output:

Daily need is 1,435.7 kcal. Wet food costs $14.33/day (calories estimated from the guaranteed analysis), dry-matter protein 40.9% - passes the adult dog minimum of 18%; dry food costs $1.91/day, dry-matter protein 28.9% - also passes. The dry food is about 1/7 the cost, but the wet food is actually more protein-dense once fairly compared - the label numbers (26% vs 9%) are misleading. Plus Golden Retriever breed tendencies worth watching for (not a diagnosis).