Autarky Complete Adult Working Dry Dog Food Chicken

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Autarky Complete Adult Working Dry Dog Food Chicken

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
27/ 100
WeakTied 669th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • One animal protein: chicken
  • No ingredient deductions
  • Includes organ meat
  • About 50% carbs (dry weight)
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Maize, Poultry meal (min 26% chicken), Chicken fat, Rice (min 5%), Chicken liver… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
26%
Protein, dry weight
27%
Carbs, dry weight
~50%
kcal/100 g
352

Ingredients

Listed first: Maize. 26% of the recipe is declared meat.

Maize, Poultry meal (min 26% chicken), Chicken fat, Rice (min 5%), Chicken liver, Linseed, Oats, Maize gluten, Alfalfa, Yeast, Peas, Minerals, Carrot, Seaweed, Milk thistle, Marigold, Rosemary, Nettle, Mint, Yucca schidigera, Blackcurrant, Pomegranate, Rosehip, Spinach, Beetroot, Fenugreek, Thyme, Carob pod meal, Aniseed, Turmeric, Dandelion, Ginger, Oregano (min 0.4% herbs)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A/3a672a 23,000 IU/kg, Vitamin D/3a671 2000 IU/kg, Vitamin E/3a700 300mg/kg, L-carnitine 190mg/kg Taurine 400mg/kg. Trace Elements: Iron (Iron(II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 50mg/kg, Iodine (Calcium iodate, anhydrous) 2mg/kg, Copper (Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate) 11mg/kg, Manganese (manganese (II) oxide) 38mg/kg, Manganese (manganese sulphate monohydrate) 14mg/kg, Zinc (Zinc sulphate monohydrate) 160mg/kg, Zinc (Zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate) 27mg/kg, Non Stated Antioxidants

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
MaizeGrainNot given
Poultry meal (min 26% chicken)Named meat26%
Chicken fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
Rice (min 5%)Grain5%
Chicken liverNamed meatNot given
LinseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
OatsGrainNot given
Maize glutenFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
AlfalfaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
YeastOtherNot given
PeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
CarrotVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
SeaweedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Milk thistleOtherNot given
MarigoldOtherNot given
RosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
NettleVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
MintVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Yucca schidigeraOtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 27% and carbs about 50%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein24%27%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12%13%
Carbohydrate~45%~50%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3.1%3.4%
Ash5.5%6.1%
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.

Energy352 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 27

The kind of meat scored best (9.5 of 15). Starch scored lowest (3.2 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    10.2 / 45
    • Meat on the label9.1 / 35

      26% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.1 / 10

      Protein is 26.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    3.2 / 20

    About 50.4% 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 added plant protein, starch or fibre.

  4. What kind of meat?

    9.5 / 15
    • How the meat is listed6.5 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 54% 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

      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

Tied 669th of 1,171 dry foods. 30 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 50% to 32% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.

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

3 noted, none cost points: mint, oregano and yucca extract. 40 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 40 nothing flagged
40 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, aniseed, antioxidants, beetroot, blackcurrant, carob, carrot, dandelion root, fenugreek, ginger, l-carnitine, linseed (flaxseed), liver (animal organ), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, marigold meal, milk thistle, minerals, nettle, oats, peas, pomegranate extract, poultry, poultry fat, rice, rosehips, rosemary, seaweed, spinach, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), turmeric, yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, 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 7% since 10 Aug.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Pets at Home12kg · £27.79 up 7% since 10 Aug12kg£27.79£2.32/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 7%.

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4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12kg£27.79£2.32/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£25.01£2.08/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£26.09£2.17/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 22 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
59% this food 26%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 50%
To feed
34% less per 1,000 kcal

+22 points

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Matches the maker’s own page.

Checked against the maker. The ingredient list matches the one on the manufacturer’s own product page.

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

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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