Arkwrights Working Adult Dry Dog Food with Beef

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Arkwrights Working Adult Dry Dog Food with Beef

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
9/ 100
WeakTied 1,153rd of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • 10% meat
  • About 62% carbs (dry weight)
  • Meat not named by animal

First ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (minimum 10% beef), oils and fats, minerals All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
10%
Protein, dry weight
20%
Carbs, dry weight
~62%
kcal/100 g
340

Ingredients

Listed first: Cereals. 10% of the recipe is declared meat.

Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (minimum 10% beef), oils and fats, minerals

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A 12000 iu/kg, Vitamin D3 1200 iu/kg, Vitamin E 110 mg/kg; Trace Elements: 3b405/Copper 10 mg/kg, 3b103/Iron 80 mg/kg, 3b202/Iodine 1.5 mg/kg, 3b503/Manganese 45 mg/kg, 3b801/Selenium 0.2 mg/kg, 3b605 & 3b612/Zinc 150 mg/kg (overall), 3b612/Chelated Zinc 18 mg/kg Antioxidants

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
CerealsVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
meat and animal derivatives (minimum 10% beef)Named meat10%
oils and fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
mineralsOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 20% and carbs about 62%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein18%20%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat7%7.8%
Carbohydrate~56%~62%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash6%6.7%
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.

Energy340 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 9

How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). Starch scored lowest (0 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    3.5 / 45
    • Meat on the label3.5 / 35

      10% 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 62.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    0 / 15
    • How the meat is listed0 / 12

      The label lists the meat as an unnamed category, which earns 0% 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 1,153rd of 1,171 dry foods. 8 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 62% to 39% 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.

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Ingredient notes

1 noted: meat and animal derivatives. 12 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 12 nothing flagged
12 ingredients with nothing flagged

Cereals, minerals, oils and fats, tocopherols (vitamin E)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, 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 15% since 10 Aug.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Pets at Home15kg · £16.19 up 15% since 10 Aug15kg£16.19£1.08/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home15kg£16.19£1.08/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home15kg£14.57£0.97/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home15kg£14.12£0.94/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

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Sources

Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.

Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.

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

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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