Best Air-Dried Dog Food: Our Ultimate Guide

Last Updated on December 6, 2025 by Kieran Beckles

Are you ready to embrace air-dried dog food? It’s a pet food format that we’ve relied upon to satisfy our picky eaters for over three years. So we’re here to help!

We’ve tried a range of different air-dried dog food brands since returning to California from London over three years ago. It took a little time but we landed on one brand that Copper and Skye love!

Yasmin and I were attracted to the idea of air-dried dog food because it’s more convenient than fresh food and raw dog food when it comes to serving and storage.

Having said that, we do currently feed a raw dog food brand alongside one of the air dried options mentioned in this article. We find mixing and matching works best on our picky pup Skye.

In this article, I’m going to call upon my seven years of experience reviewing dog food to share my top picks, whether you care about price, recipe variety, customization or experience.

Best Air-Dried Dog Food: Our Ranking

Overall Winner: Sundays For Dogs

Sundays for Dogs is responsible for transforming my Alaskan Klee Kai dogs from fussy eaters to food-motivated pups. We experimented with a few different brands when we first moved back to the USA before landing on Sundays. Copper and Skye loved the treat-like texture of their food.

They use human-grade ingredients in recipes with a protein content of around 80%. I’m sure this high protein content played a part in encouraging Skye to eat her Sundays food consistently. Sundays offer three recipes: beef, chicken and turkey. I’d recommend starting with beef because it was my Klee Kai’s favorite.

Sundays offer a custom meal plan, which pet owners generate by completing their questionnaire when you get started. Once you’ve provided the details about your dog, you’ll get your plan. My only criticism of Sundays is the lack of a custom scooper. It’s something UnKibble provide and it makes a difference!

However, I can’t argue with the price. Sundays ranks as one of the best-value dog food delivery companies. We pay $139 for Copper and Skye’s air-dried meals. That price makes it one of the more affordable pet food brands offering human-grade food and home delivery.

Best For Superfoods: Badlands Ranch

Badlands Ranch is another option if you’re in the market for air-dried dog food. They launched a couple of years ago, with their founder Katherine Heigl. Badlands Ranch place an emphasis on the superfood element of their recipes.

Badlands Ranch offer recipes with 87% meat content and 13% fruit, vegetables and superfoods. Their recipes are formulated to support potential health issues such as skin and coat, digestion, immune function, and energy. This may appeal to pet owners who have dogs with any of these ailments.

They offer beef, chicken, wild fish and turkey, lamb and venison, and bison and beef recipes. So they’ve got a good range if you’ve got a picky eater and you need to regularly mix up the protein in their bowl. This was the case with Skye until we found Sundays.

Badlands Ranch worked out a little more expensive to feed my Alaskan Klee Kai dogs over the course of a month. We paid around $171 for a month’s supply. However, you can find Badlands Ranch on Amazon so you can avail of quick delivery if you’re a Prime member.

Best For Meat Content: Ziwi Peak

If meat content is your priority, Ziwi Peak is best in class. Their recipes contain up to 96% meat content, made up of meat, organ and bone. We first encountered Ziwi Peak while we lived in the UK. But we’ve also used them in California if we’ve run out of Sundays.

Their protein is mostly sourced from New Zealand. We opted for the New Zealand grass fed beef recipe for our Alaskan Klee Kai dogs. Copper and Skye liked their Ziwi Peak recipes. It wasn’t customized to their particular needs because we purchased through Amazon.

However, I was impressed by their sheer range of choice. You can pick from over six air-dried recipes, which is perfect for picky eaters like my female dog Skye. We used Ziwi Peak’s air-dried food as dog treats on walks because they’re small in size.

You can buy a range of bag sizes on Amazon, from one pound up to nearly nine pounds. The price ranges from $29.98 for one pound and $199.98 for the nine-pound bag.

Best For Sustainability: Open Farm

Open Farm is a pet food brand with a sustainable and transparent approach to their business. You can trace the ingredients in your dog’s recipes from the farm to the bowl. This appealed to us because we like to know where Copper and Skye’s food comes from.

We’ve previously discussed their fresh food and freeze-dried raw food, but they’ve also got a popular air-dried range. Open Farm have chicken, pollock and lamb, and surf and turf recipes. Their meat content is 90% which is slightly less than Ziwi Peak. However, they infuse bone broth which is a nice addition.

Open Farm is a good option if you want air-dried dog food that is responsibly made coming from a brand with a lot of experience. Yasmin and I have noticed Open Farm consistently gets good reviews from pet parents. We only wish they offered a little more customization.

Having said that, you can order their food direct from Amazon and they’re stocked in most big-name pet stores. Open Farm’s air-dried chicken recipe is priced at $24.99 for a one-pound bag or $46.99 for a two-pound bag. So it does work out a little more expensive than some other brands in this guide.

Best For Price: The Pets Table

The Pets Table provide fresh dog food and air-dried meals. For the purposes of this guide, we’ll be looking at their air-dried food. You can opt to sign up to just get their dry food range, which is great if you don’t want to pay for fresh.

HelloFresh are the company behind The Pets Table, so dog owners who have previously used the food delivery service will be familiar with sign-up process. The Pets Table only offers two air-dried recipes: chicken and beef. Although you sign up for a custom meal plan, there’s no custom scooper included.

Copper and Skye weren’t big fans of The Pets Table, but I’ve included it in this breakdown because of its affordability. You can purchase through their official website or Amazon. We signed up using their website, but you can purchase a one pound, three pound, or four-and-a-half pound bag on Amazon. The price ranges from $18.95 to $73.70.

Wrapping Up

We’ve reached the end of our guide on the best air-dried dog food for pet parents in the USA.

If you’ve got a fussy eater like my Alaskan Klee Kai dog Skye, I’d recommend starting with Sundays for Dogs based on our great experience.

While there are other brands with more variety, we’ve experienced great success since introducing Sundays to Copper and Skye’s diet.

However, I’m confident that there is something for everyone in this guide, whether you care about sustainability, meat content or convenience.