Arden Grange Light Adult Dry Dog Food with Chicken & Rice

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Arden Grange Light Adult Dry Dog Food with Chicken & Rice

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
19/ 100
WeakTied 986th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • 19% meat
  • About 60% carbs (dry weight)
  • Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Rice (31%), maize (27%), chicken meat meal (14%), beet pulp, fresh chicken (5%)… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
19%
Protein, dry weight
20%
Carbs, dry weight
~60%
kcal/100 g
339

Ingredients

Listed first: Rice. 19% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 19%
  • Grain 58%
  • No amount given 23%

Rice (31%), maize (27%), chicken meat meal (14%), beet pulp, fresh chicken (5%), chicken digest, refined chicken oil, yeast, krill, whole dried egg, whole linseed, minerals, prebiotic FOS, prebiotic MOS, yucca extract, glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin, cranberries, nucleotides

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Not Stated; Vitamin: Vitamin A 18,000 IU, Vitamin D3 1,350 IU, Vitamin E 240 IU; Trace Elements: Zinc (as zinc chelate of amino acid hydrate) 90mg, Copper (as copper (II) chelate of amino acid hydrate) 8mg, Manganese (as manganese chelate of amino acid hydrate) 6mg, Iodine (as calcium iodate anhydrous) 1.5mg

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Rice”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Rice (31%)Grain31%
maize (27%)Grain27%
chicken meat meal (14%)Named meat14%
beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
fresh chicken (5%)Named meat5%
chicken digestFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
refined chicken oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
yeastOtherNot given
krillNamed meatNot given
whole dried eggOtherNot given
whole linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
prebiotic FOSOtherNot given
prebiotic MOSOtherNot given
yucca extractFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
glucosamineOtherNot given
MSMOtherNot given
chondroitinOtherNot given
cranberriesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
nucleotidesOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 20% and carbs about 60%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein18%20%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat7.5%8.3%
Carbohydrate~54%~60%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.5%3.9%
Ash7%7.8%
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.

Energy339 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 19

The kind of meat scored best (8.1 of 15). Starch scored lowest (0 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    6.7 / 45
    • Meat on the label6.7 / 35

      19% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0 / 10

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

  2. How much starch?

    0 / 20

    About 60% 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 digest or flavouring.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.1 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8.1 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 67% 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

Tied 986th of 1,171 dry foods. 21 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 60% to 38% by dry weight, and protein is about 35%.

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

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 25 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 25 nothing flagged
25 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beet pulp, chicken, chondroitin, cranberries, digest (rendered meat digest), egg, fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), glucosamine, krill, linseed (flaxseed), maize (corn), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), minerals, MSM (methylsulfonylmethane), nucleotides, poultry fat, rice, tocopherols (vitamin E), yeast

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

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

Sources for these ingredients

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Pets at Home12kg · £47.69 up 11% since 10 Aug12kg£47.69£3.97/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home6kg · £29.99 up 15% since 10 Aug6kg£29.99£5.00/kgVisit
Pets at Home2kg · £12.99 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£12.99£6.50/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 15%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12kg£47.69£3.97/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£12.99£6.50/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home6kg£29.99£5.00/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£42.92£3.58/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£11.69£5.84/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home6kg£26.99£4.50/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£42.92£3.58/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£11.69£5.84/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home6kg£26.00£4.33/kg

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 30 to 41 points higher and cost up to 9% more.

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Carbs
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To feed
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+41 pointsCompare

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Carbs
about 24% this food about 60%
To feed
12% less per 1,000 kcal

+38 pointsCompare

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74% this food 19%
Carbs
about 27% this food about 60%
To feed
9% more per 1,000 kcal

+38 pointsCompare

Meat
59% this food 19%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 60%
To feed
63% less per 1,000 kcal

+30 pointsCompare

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: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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