There are many good reasons to feed your dog a plant-based diet, not just ethical ones, and my dog’s chronic gut issues have greatly improved after taking this simple step. I know that many other people are coming to the same conclusion, but want to make the right choice.
My doggy tasting panel tried products over several months from a range of brands producing food that is high quality, 100% vegan, and – importantly – nutritionally complete. This best vegan dog food guide highlights their favourites and includes grain-free, soya-free, and ‘sensitive tummy’ options too. I also regularly review and update it to ensure it lists only products that are currently available, so I hope it will help you make an informed decision about which food is right for your dog.
Vegan Mum’s Top Picks
- Best overall: Omni
- Best wet food: Give a Dog a Bean
- Best small biscuit: Green Crunch
- Best hypoallergenic: Solo Vegetal
- Best fermented: MicroBell
- Best soy-free: Herbie Wilde
- Best home cook kit: Fleetful
- Best value: V-Dog
- Best puppy: Noochy Poochy
- Best dog & cat: Benevo
Just want discount codes? See individual products for details.
Do vets recommend vegan dog food?
Essentially, yes. Whilst you might find some vets who are sceptical (just as some GPs can be about us vegan humans) there are many vets who are well-informed, open-minded, up to date on the latest research and who are very happy to recommend vegan dog food. A number of the brands listed here have been launched by vegan vets, with all the products formulated according to FEDIAF guidelines (the pet food industry’s European-based federation). This means they are nutritionally complete, and meet exactly the same standards as animal-derived pet foods in terms of nutrition. The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has also updated its stance on this and now fully support any diet – including vegan and plant-based – for dogs providing it is providing all the appropriate nutrients. You can see their policy here.
Our experience of the best vegan dog food
All products have been tested by at least one of our canine tasting panel. That’s my dog, Coco, and 4 of her furry pals whose ‘parents’ regularly help us out with dog-related reviews – Sundi, Saru, Ernie, and Doris the labradoodle. All the products have been tested over several months and in some cases, our testers have moved over to that food permanently! But whichever one they tried, all the dogs remained energetic and playful. And in keeping with other vegan dog food reviews I have seen online, their fur softened and they – and their poos – smelt a lot more wholesome too!
Omni
- Price: from £5.27/kg (dry) | £3.33/tin (wet)
- Type: wet, dry & puppy
- Omni 50% Discount code: VEGANMUM
This vet-formulated, nutritionally-complete vegan dog food is very popular and competitively priced. And having secured a fantastic level of investment on Dragon’s Den at the beginning of 2025, Omni is going from strength to strength, not least because dogs really seem to love it. They have a great range with wet and dry products to suit puppies, adults, seniors, and there are soy-free options for sensitive dogs too.
Here’s a top-level look at their range:
| Product type | Description | Price (before discount) |
| Dry dog food | Range of nutritionally complete biscuits, including lifestage specific and sensitive products | from £5.27/kg |
| Tinned wet dog food | Nutritionally complete range including soy-based ‘no-beef‘ and soy-free ‘Soothing stew‘ | from £3.33/tin |
| Toppers | Wet food pouches (NOT nutritionally complete) to use as a snack or to add interest to dry food | from £19.99 for 8 |
| Supplements | Wide range of different vet-grade supplements to support your dog’s health | from £13.33/month |
| Treats | 5 different varieties of training treats | from £4.39/bag |
Stop Press April ’25
Omni are currently re-formulating their wet food offering, with the no-beef casserole and no-chicken pot pie tinned food being discontinued. Current alternatives are their Toppers pouches and Soothing Stew tins. I will update this review once they have launched their new offering.
3 of our canine testers tried Omni’s products and the range got a comprehensive ‘paws up’. In fact, Sundi loved the toppers so much she now eats them all the time and loves the gravy and chewy bits. My dog, Coco, has also been a regular consumer of Omni’s food since I first discovered the brand in 2022.
A key ingredient in the majority of Omni’s products is soya (which a few dogs can be sensitive to) although they still avoid most of the major allergens associated with dogs, like wheat. However, they also make a soya-free Sensitivity Diet formulated with sensitive dogs in mind – a good choice if you want to eliminate all known allergens from your dog’s diet.
Overall, this is a reasonably priced vegan dog food brand, with probably the best range too. Add to that the dry food packaging which is now fully recyclable, a subscription service which attracts a discounted price, and free monthly online video consultations as part of that package, and you have a quality brand that is difficult to ignore!
You can also read more details about these products in Vegan Mum’s Omni Dog Food Review
Give a Dog a Bean
- Price: from £2.42/tin
- Type: wet
- Discount code: VEGANMUM
In a world where the importance of beans is gaining traction, here is a wet food based on beans to give your dog! Give a dog a bean has been thoughtfully developed by a vegan vet along with nutritionists from Just be Kind dog food to offer this very palatable and healthy vegan wet dog food. It avoids all the common allergens that can make your dog poorly, including meat, fish, grains and soya. Importantly though, it does this naturally by using wholesome ingredients, not hydrolysed proteins created by ultra-processing.
With bean and quinoa proteins providing the optimal amino acid profile for your dog, it also contains all the other nutrients your dog needs, with appropriate levels of fat and protein, and so is a complete vegan dog food that should also be very good for their gut biome too. Contrary to popular belief, feeding your dog beans won’t make them permanently gassy, but we did introduce this to our meat-eating doggy testers slowly over 3-4 weeks because the ingredients are different from what they’re used to. What I’m trying to say is that things settled down in the parping department fairly quickly!
An effective alternative to animal-product-based elimination diets, this food is proving to be very popular with dog parents, so if you are looking for a wet food for your dog that is kind to their tummy and to their skin (and fur), this really is a good choice. Our dog, Coco, thoroughly enjoys it and her gut tolerates it very well. And, if you’ll excuse the pun, she is always full of beans!
Use Just be Kind discount code VEGANMUM at checkout
Green Crunch
- Price: from £7.11/kg
- Type: dry
- Discount code: VEGANMUM
This well-respected German dog food has great reviews, and is perfect for those dogs who react badly to grains and soya because it uses lentil and pea protein. It’s brimming with antioxidants and the magical algae oil, the biscuits are small and easy to eat and digest too, and now with a very appealing (to dogs!) umami flavour, making it even more palatable.
Recommended by Vegan Vet Dr Arielle from Just Be Kind Dog Food, it is particularly good for dogs with skin and gut sensitivities. And if you like to give your dog a mix of food, this goes really well with Give a Dog a Bean wet food.
Both Ernie and Coco really liked Green Crunch and readily consumed it for several weeks. They particularly appreciated the small biscuit size because it’s great for dogs with little mouths (and in Coco’s case, not too many teeth). Their guts responded very well to it, they remained energetic and playful, and as with all the other vegan dog foods here, they smelt great and their fur was really soft.
Available in the UK, you can buy it from Just Be Kind’s website using the link below:
Use Just be Kind discount code VEGANMUM at checkout
Solo Vegetal
- Price: from £6.26/kg
- Type: wet & dry
- Discount code: VEGANMUM
If your pooch is suffering from serious sensitivities and allergies, then Solo Vegetal could well be the answer, and many enlightened vets recommend it for elimination diets.
All the ingredients have been carefully thought through to ensure that even the most sensitive dog can have a well-rounded, highly nutritious diet, without exposure to the common allergens that can be so serious for some dogs. Although it contains wheat, this is einkorn wheat which is nutrient dense, and much easier to digest than modern wheat varieties. So if your vet has suggested an elimination diet, and you want to avoid the ultra-processed meat-based alternatives, then talk to them about trying this instead. It is vet formulated and has a good reputation.
Whilst on an elimination diet, this formed the major part of Coco’s regular diet and her gut reacted extremely well to it. The biscuits were a little bit big for her – she has a small mouth and not as many teeth as she once had – so I soaked them first in a tiny amount of warmed oat milk with a drop of water and they were perfect.
But it’s not only for use in elimination diets and is a perfect, permanent solution for any dog with sensitivities. If you’d like to find out more about this food and Coco’s experience of it, read my Solo Vegetal review here.
Available in wet and dry options from Just be Kind Dog Food using the link below:
Use Just be Kind discount code VEGANMUM at checkout
MicroBell
- Price: from £9.56/kg
- Type: dry
- Discount code: VEGANMUM
If you’re serious about reducing your impact on the planet, but still providing your dog with a very high quality, palatable food then MicroBell is the answer. Using the latest in fermentation technology, these biscuits contain microbial protein which mimics animal protein, but there’s not an animal cell in sight!
When you compare its production to conventional meat-based foods, it uses less water, land and energy and so creates significantly less CO2 emissions. It is also packaged in paper. Consequently, it’s not just cruelty-free but even more sustainable than insect-based foods.
Just as important is the taste test though. When you open the pack, you are met with an almost smoky bacon smell and Coco absolutely loves it. And the biscuits, at about 1cm, are a great size for any dog. Just think of the environmental impact we could have if everyone fed this to their dogs.
Available from Just be Kind Dog Food using the link below:
Use Just be Kind discount code VEGANMUM at checkout
Herbie Wilde
- Price: £9.83/kg
- Type: dry
- Discount code: VEGANMUM
This UK made dry dog food from ethical company Herbie Wilde is another great choice if you are trying to avoid feeding your dog soy products or grains. Using reassuring ingredients like sweet potato, pea proteins, seeds, herbs and vegetables, this food offers good protein and fat levels. It is nutritionally complete but can easily be mixed with any of the wet foods mentioned in this guide to give your dog a varied and healthy diet.
Available from Just be Kind Dog Food using the link below:
Use Just be Kind discount code VEGANMUM at checkout
Fleetful
- Price: from £31.50
- Type: homecook kit
- Discount code: veganmum10
A sustainable way to feed your dog a vegan diet, this option gives you absolute control over what they eat, and it’s good value for money too.
When you buy this homecooking kit, it comes with the supplements included so you don’t have to worry about whether your dog is getting all the nutrients they need – they will be. The only other thing you have to remember is to just make you get additional vegetables in your shop! And although your dog may take a little time to get used to the different textures (or they may just snaffle it down regardless) it’s worth it.
I use these kits for my dog from time to time because if her gut becomes inflamed for any reason, this is by far the best way I know to calm it down again. I don’t use it all the time because I don’t have the freezer space, and also because I like her to have biscuits too.
If you are concerned about preparing your dog’s food yourself though, Holly at Fleetful is incredibly helpful if you have any questions or need some advice. You never know, you might just find cooking for your dog a whole lot easier than you thought! I have written more about Cooking Food for Dogs here if you’re interested.
V-Dog
- Price: from £3.36/kg
- Type: dry
What a reliable, tried and tested brand – and a great bulk buy! V-Dog (originally under a different trading name) was established in 1980. This company really knows what it’s talking about when it comes to vegan food for dogs. I used the flakes back in the 1980s to feed my rescue greyhounds, and they really thrived on it.
This food is really good for dogs that have meat and protein allergies, and the flakes particularly are pretty low in fat too, so quite helpful for slimming down those podgy pups, or dogs that have had pancreatitis in the past. Our dog, Coco, enjoys these flakes, but I do now avoid giving her grains because of her gut sensitivities so she can no longer eat it unfortunately. V-Dog also produce nuggets too which can be pre-soaked like the flakes if necessary.
You can’t buy this food direct from V-Dogs currently, but it is available on Amazon. A potential downside is that it only comes in 15kg bags – that’s quite a big bag! But it does work out to be very good value for money, and without compromising on quality. Other than that, it is grain-based, so it may not be suitable for some dogs with known grain sensitivities, as we found with our dog.
Noochy Poochy
- Price: from £10.58/kg
- Type: dry
- Discount code: VEGANMUM
A fully vegan and nutritionally complete dry dog food product founded by a vegan vet. There is also a lovely ‘Noochy Poochy puppy’ option available, still suitable for adult dogs too, but just a smaller nugget – what a great idea! Not only that, but it is harnessing the power of…yes, you guessed it…Nooch! Nutritional yeast, that firm favourite of the vegan world, now available in a vegan dog food. I know my dog is not alone when it comes to enjoying cheezy flavours, so this is inspired. Saru, the red lab in the photo, thoroughly enjoyed the adult version of this food, and Ernie (a smaller dog) was very partial to the puppy version and consumed it with gusto for several weeks.
Made in the UK, this is a very sustainable and eco-friendly option for your dog companion, with recyclable packaging and although it is a little pricey, you are getting good value for money from high quality, organic, ethically-sourced ingredients, produced by an enormously ethical company.
You can read more about this product in Vegan Mum’s Noochy Poochy Review, or buy from Just be Kind dog food using the link below.
Benevo
- Price: from £4.95/kg
- Type: wet, dry & puppy
First established in 2004, Benevo have been making vegan pet food for a long time for both dogs and cats. With a good range of wet, dry and puppy foods you have a reasonable choice for your pooch. The dry food is wheat free but is based on soya, so not suitable for dogs with that particular sensitivity; the wet food is soy-free though.
However, unlike their dry food, I can’t see that the wet food contains Taurine and L-carnitine which means that it may not be nutritionally complete on its own. Consequently, you should probably mix it with their dry food that does contain these essential elements.
Cats and vegan diets: there is emerging evidence to suggest that cats are NOT obligate carnivores as previously thought – see this study from the University of Winchester.
Vegetarian Dog Food
I have provided below a list of some of the dog foods that may look vegan, perhaps because some are referred to as ‘plant-based’, but that are actually vegetarian. From both an animal welfare and environmental perspective, these may be better than meat-based options, although I would obviously still recommend the best vegan dog foods above.
- Yarrah Vega Dog Food is a good choice, but because they use animal-derived vitamin D3 (from sheep’s wool), it is not vegan
- Edgard Cooper Plant-based Carrot and Courgette dry dog food at Amazon – this is a nutritionally complete food but they state in their FAQs that their plantbased products are NOT vegan, so they must be using an animal-based ingredient somewhere in the formulation.
- Edgard Cooper Plant-based Beetroot and Pumpkin dry dog food at Amazon – this is a nutritionally complete food but they state in their FAQs that their plantbased products are NOT vegan, so they must be using an animal-based ingredient somewhere in the formulation.
- Barking Heads Plant Power from Amazon – this is promoted as a ‘meat-free Monday’ option and doesn’t appear to be nutritionally complete – I can see no essential Taurine or Lysine in the ingredients
FAQs
Is it healthy to put a dog on a vegan diet?
I believe the answer is yes, based on the following evidence:
Firstly, dogs are omnivores, not carnivores which means they’re well-equipped to digest and absorb food and nutrients from plant-based sources. And increasingly, research shows that dogs positively benefit from a vegan diet. The Pack have written a great blog about whether it’s safe to feed vegan dog food. You will find that they cite a lot of really useful research links in their article too.
And the British Veterinary Association, who originally opposed vegan diets for dogs have now updated their advice and support anyone wishing to feed their dog a vegan diet. See their policy here.
Research also came out of Winchester University from Andrew Knight, a professor of animal welfare and ethics. He said that providing plant-based pet food is carefully formulated and contains appropriate synthetic nutrients, dogs can even have better health outcomes than when fed on meat pet foods. All of this research is incredibly reassuring and dogs’ human companions are certainly beginning to see some of the positive results a plant-based diet is having on their canine compadres.
Plant-based eating for your dog may not be absolutely perfect, but nor is the meat-based pet food industry. But with the amount of research now going into the best vegan dog food brands, I am very confident that it is the better option. However, it is still important that you find them the best vegan dog food. Not all of it is complete, or appropriate for every day eating. And some ‘plant-based’ dog food contains eggs – not sure which plant eggs come from, but there you go…
Can you feed cats a vegan diet?
Jan 25 update: there is emerging evidence to suggest that cats are NOT obligate carnivores as previously thought – see this study from the University of Winchester.
Is a vegan diet good for dogs with sensitive tummies?
Whilst a vegan diet is likely to be better than meat-based food for dogs with sensitive tummies, you may still need to consider certain factors like grains and proteins. If your dog has any sensitivities or suspected allergies, it is always worth consulting with your vet. Some of the best vegan dog food producers below also offer free online vet consultations when you sign up for a subscription, so they can support you too. The Vegan Vet, Dr Arielle Griffiths also offers independent tele-consultations – you can book an appointment with her here.
If you want to go straight for a product designed with sensitivities in mind, there are 4 options to consider, all of which are nutritionally complete:
- Give a Dog a Bean
- Solo Vegetal
- Fleetful – Holly at Fleetful is very helpful
- Green Crunch
Why are The Pack and Hownd not on my list?
It would appear that The Pack have stopped trading, although they still have wet food available for sale on their website. I’m assuming they are trying to sell off all their stock.
Hownd have been bought out by a meat-based pet food company and so I no longer wish to list them. However, their vegan food is still available on the Hownd website.
More vegan dog food articles
I hope you’ve enjoyed my guide to the best vegan dog foods. I have written more articles and reviews below about vegan dogs and relevant products if you would like to do some further reading.
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