AATU Chicken Adult Dry Dog Food

3 prices from Pets at Home

AATU Chicken Adult Dry Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFish oil
59/ 100
FairTop 2% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 79.5% meat
  • One main animal protein: chicken
  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: 80% Chicken (Including, 63.5% Freshly prepared Chicken, 14% Dried Chicken & 2% Freshly prepared Chicken liver, 0.5% Freshly…… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
79.5%
Protein, dry weight
36%
Carbs, dry weight
~33%
kcal/100 g
370

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 79.5% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 79.5%
  • Plants 11%
  • Other 2.3%
  • No amount given 6.7%

80% Chicken (Including, 63.5% Freshly prepared Chicken, 14% Dried Chicken & 2% Freshly prepared Chicken liver, 0.5% Freshly prepared Chicken Gravy), Peas (4.5%), Tapioca, Sweet potato (3.5%), Apple (3%), Chicken fat (2%), Chickpeas, Salmon oil (0.3%), Minerals, Fruit & Herbs mix, (Cranberry, Pear, Blueberry, Mulberry, Carrot, Tomato, Chicory, Parsley, Peppermint, Spirulina, Seaweed, Oregano, Sage, Marjoram, Thyme, Chamomile, Rosehip, Stinging Nettle, Yucca, Marigold, Aniseed, Fenugreek, Cinnamon, 0.04%), Glucosamine 178 Mg/kg, Methyl-Sulfonyl-Methane 178 Mg/kg, Chondroitin Sulphate 125 Mg/kg

Meat named animal protein

Additives

per kg: Vitamins: Vitamin A 18000 IU, Vitamin D3 1850 IU, Vitamin E 200 mg, L-Carnitine 200mg. Trace Elements: Zinc (Zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate) 117.5 mg, Iron (Iron (II) chelate of amino acids, hydrate) 60 mg, Copper (Copper (II) chelate of amino acids, hydrate) 7 mg, Manganese (Manganese chelate of amino acids, hydrate) 6 mg, Iodine (Potassium iodide) 1.5 mg Antioxidants: Tocopherol extracts of vegetable oils. Zootechnical additives: Probiotic Enterococcus faecium (DSM 10663 NCIMB 10415) 3.5 x 1010 CFU/kg

How we read this label

First ingredient: “80% Chicken”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
80% Chicken (Including, 63.5% Freshly prepared Chicken, 14%…Named meat80%
Peas (4.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4.5%
TapiocaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Sweet potato (3.5%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3.5%
Apple (3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant3%
Chicken fat (2%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient2%
ChickpeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Salmon oil (0.3%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.3%
MineralsOtherNot given
Fruit & Herbs mixVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Glucosamine 178 Mg/kgOtherNot given
Methyl-Sulfonyl-Methane 178 Mg/kgOtherNot given
Chondroitin Sulphate 125 Mg/kgOtherNot given

0.5% broth, gravy, fat or digest inside the meat figure isn't counted as meat.

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Nutrition

Protein 36% and carbs about 33%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein32%36%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat18%20%
Carbohydrate~30%~33%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2%2.2%
Ash8%8.9%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy370 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 59

The kind of meat scored best (14.3 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    30.4 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label27.8 / 35 points

      79.5% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.6 / 10 points

      Protein is 35.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    8.9 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 33.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    14.3 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed11.3 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and dried, which earns 95% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat3 / 3 points

      Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Top 2% of dry foods. 5 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 33% to 21% by dry weight, and protein is about 45%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

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Ingredient notes

6 noted, none cost points: chamomile, marjoram, mint and 3 more. 40 flagged nothing.

  • 6 noted
  • 40 nothing flagged
  • 3 not in our ingredient database yet
40 ingredients with nothing flagged

Aniseed, apples, blueberries, broth (meat stock), carrot, chicken, chickpeas, chicory root extract, chondroitin, cinnamon, cranberries, fenugreek, glucosamine, herbs, l-carnitine, liver (animal organ), marigold meal, minerals, nettle, pear, peas, poultry fat, probiotic cultures, rosehips, sage, salmon oil, seaweed, spirulina, sweet potato, tapioca, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: iodine, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper, iron

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients
3 not in our ingredient database yet

Fruit, methyl-sulfonyl-methane, mulberry

Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

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ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home10kg · £74.99 up 11% since 10 Aug10kg£74.99£7.50/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home5kg · £50.19 up 11% since 10 Aug5kg£50.19£10.04/kgVisit
Pets at Home1.5kg · £19.99 up 11% since 10 Aug1.5kg£19.99£13.33/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£19.99£13.33/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home10kg£74.99£7.50/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home5kg£50.19£10.04/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£14.99£9.99/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home10kg£56.24£5.62/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home5kg£45.17£9.03/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1.5kg£17.99£11.99/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home10kg£67.49£6.75/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home5kg£45.17£9.03/kg

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Sources

Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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