Almo Nature Life Maintenance Medium Adult Chicken & Rice

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Almo Nature Life Maintenance Medium Adult Chicken & Rice

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
36/ 100
WeakTop 32% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Chicken (32.7%, of which 26% fresh chicken, 6.7% dried chicken), maize, rice, dried beef (12.1%), wholegrain rice meal… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
44.8%
Protein, dry weight
28%
Carbs, dry weight
~44%
kcal/100 g
379

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken. 44.8% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 44.8%
  • Other 0.2%
  • No amount given 55%

Chicken (32.7%, of which 26% fresh chicken, 6.7% dried chicken), maize, rice, dried beef (12.1%), wholegrain rice meal, hydrolysed animal protein, chicken fat, beet pulp, yeast, minerals, mannan-oligosaccharides (0.1%), inulin from chicory (0.1%, source of FOS)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (17,500 IU), vitamin D3 (750 IU), vitamin E (300mg), vitamin B1 (12mg), vitamin B2 (14mg), vitamin B6 (12mg), vitamin B12 (0.15mg), vitamin K3 (1mg), folic acid (1mg), calcium-D-pantothenate (20mg), biotin (0.5mg), niacin (25mg), choline chloride (1750mg), iodine (1.07mg), calcium iodate granules [anhydrous] (1.64mg), copper (4.78mg), cupric sulphate pentahydrate (15.96mg), cupric chelate from amino acids hydrate (16.87mg), manganese (6.71mg), manganous sulphate monohydrate (20.67mg), zinc (52.5mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate (125.74mg), zinc chelate from hydrolysed protein (151.37mg), selenium (0.03mg), organic selenium (11.38mg), L-carnitine (50mg), DL-methionine (680mg), tryptophan (150mg).

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken (32.7%, of which 26% fresh chicken, 6.7% dried chic…Named meat32.7%
maizeGrainNot given
riceGrainNot given
dried beef (12.1%)Named meat12.1%
wholegrain rice mealGrainNot given
hydrolysed animal proteinOtherNot given
chicken fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
yeastOtherNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
mannan-oligosaccharides (0.1%)Other0.1%
inulin from chicory (0.1%, source of FOS).Vegetable, fruit or plant0.1%

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 44%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein25%28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat15%16%
Carbohydrate~40%~44%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.5%2.7%
Ash8.5%9.3%
Moisture9%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.

Energy379 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 36

The kind of meat scored best (9.4 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (5 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    17 / 45
    • Meat on the label15.7 / 35

      44.8% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.3 / 10

      Protein is 27.5% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.3 / 20

    About 44% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.4 / 15
    • How the meat is listed9.4 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh, dried and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 79% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3

      No organ meat 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 32% of dry foods. 53 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 44% to 27% by dry weight, and protein is about 41%.

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

1 noted: hydrolysed proteins. 30 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 30 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
30 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beef, beet pulp, biotin (vitamin H/B7), chicken, chicory root extract, choline chloride, DL-methionine, folic acid (folate), l-carnitine, maize (corn), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), menadione (vitamin K3), minerals, niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), poultry fat, rice, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, 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: selenium

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

Sources for these ingredients
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Tryptophan

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: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Down 3% since 10 Aug.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg · £95.09 down 3% since 10 AugEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£95.09£3.96/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK12kg · £48.39 down 3% since 10 Aug12kg£48.39£4.03/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Zooplus UK down 3%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK12kg£48.39£4.03/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£95.09£3.96/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK12kg£48.19£4.02/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£94.69£3.95/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK12kg£49.89£4.16/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 12kg£98.09£4.09/kg

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Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 13 to 24 points higher and cost up to 22% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
about 27% this food about 44%
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Carbs
about 24% this food about 44%
To feed
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Carbs
about 33% this food about 44%
To feed
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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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