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Arkwrights Working Adult Dry Dog Food with Chicken
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
Worth knowing
- 10% meat
- About 62% carbs (dry weight)
- Meat not named by animal
First ingredients: Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (minimum 10% chicken), 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% chicken), 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 label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Cereals | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| meat and animal derivatives (minimum 10% chicken) | Named meat | 10% |
| oils and fats | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Part of the item above |
| minerals | Other | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 20% and carbs about 62%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 18% | 20% |
| below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 7% | 7.8% |
| Carbohydrate | ~56% | ~62% |
| above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 3% | 3.3% |
| Ash | 6% | 6.7% |
| Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed | 10% | 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.
Why it scores 9
How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). Starch scored lowest (0 of 20).
How much meat?
3.5 / 45 points- Meat on the label3.5 / 35 points
10% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level0 / 10 points
Protein is 20% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
0 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 62.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
6 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.
What kind of meat?
0 / 15 points- How the meat is listed0 / 12 points
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 points
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
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.
Best wet foods →Ingredient notes
1 noted: meat and animal derivatives. 12 flagged nothing.
- 1 noted
- 12 nothing flagged
- Meat and animal derivativesCounted in “What kind of meat?”Feed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which animal or plant parts are used. It costs points under “What kind of meat?” rather than as a deduction.
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
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Cereals, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Cereals, minerals, oils and fats
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- Directive 2002/32/EC Annex I (as amended) (EUR-Lex)Selenium
- EFSA J 2013;11(2):3100 doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3100Iodine
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Regulation (EU) 2015/861 (EUR-Lex)Iodine
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
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
| Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pets at Home15kg · £16.19 up 15% since 10 Aug | 15kg | £16.19 | £1.08/kg | Visit |
Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 15%.
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Pets at Home | 15kg | £16.19 | £1.08/kg |
| 27 Sep 2026 | Pets at Home | 15kg | £14.57 | £0.97/kg |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Pets at Home | 15kg | £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.
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