Free bowl checker
What’s actually in your pet’s bowl?
Pick a species, tap foods into the bowl, set each one’s share until it reads 100%, serve. Three tries; your pet reacts to every bowl. No sign-up, nothing stored.
Build a bowl for your
- ✓Add foodstap the pantry
- 2Set the sharesslide or drag to 100%
- 3Serveyour pet reacts, the bowl is scored
- 4Add BowlBalancersee it complete
Pantry — tap to add
tries left: 3
In the bowl — slide or type each share
- Chicken%
Tap a slice to type its share · drag a ⇔ handle to trade between neighbours — drag into the empty part to fill the bowl.
Chicken 20 percentScored for a 20 kg dog in normal condition — the shape of the bowl is what is being tested. For your own animal’s weight, activity and age, build your custom bowl.
Breeds with their own rules — Persians, Dalmatians, Retrievers, Labradors and the others we cover — please follow our breed-specific instructions. This game is a shape test, not a plan.
Floors are NRC 2006 per 1000 kcal ME, scaled to this animal’s energy requirement. Nutrient delivery is discounted for home-cooking retention, and plant sources additionally for bioavailability. This is an educational tool, not veterinary advice — for a sick animal, or one on a prescription diet, talk to your vet.
The science behind the grade — what is BARC?
Biologically Appropriate, Residually Corrected. It grades a bowl on two things at once — both are needed to make the complete and balanced bowl.
- Biologically appropriate — is the food base right for the animal? A cat is an obligate carnivore; a dog is not. Measured, not asserted: share of calories from animal sources, protein to fat by energy, and a fibre ceiling.
- Residually corrected — whatever that base still misses is closed to the published floors. Grocery meat lacks the organ, bone and marrow that came with whole prey, so something has to make up the residual.
A bowl can be appropriate and still incomplete, or complete and not appropriate. The checker reports both, separately, so you can see which one you have. Read the protocol · open access, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 10.5281/zenodo.22648597