Autarky Complete Working Puppy/Junior Dry Dog Food Chicken

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Autarky Complete Working Puppy/Junior Dry Dog Food Chicken

DryCompletePuppyContains grain
34/ 100
WeakTop 39% of 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
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre

First ingredients: Poultry meal (min 34% chicken), Maize, Chicken fat, Rice (min 5%), Chicken liver… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
34%
Protein, dry weight
31%
Carbs, dry weight
~41%
kcal/100 g
369

Ingredients

Listed first: Poultry meal. 34% of the recipe is declared meat.

Poultry meal (min 34% chicken), Maize, Chicken fat, Rice (min 5%), Chicken liver, Linseed, Alfalfa, Maize gluten, Yeast (source of mannan oligosaccharides), Peas, Carrot, Seaweed, Tomato, Milk thistle, Yucca schidigera, Marigold, Nettle, Mint, Rosemary, Blackcurrant, Pomegranate, Rosehip, Spinach, Beetroot, Fenugreek, Thyme, Carob pod meal, Aniseed, Turmeric, Dandelion, Ginger, Oregano (min 0.4% herbs and 4% vegetables)

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A/3a672a 18,000 IU/kg, Vitamin D/3a671 1800 IU/kg, Vitamin E/3a700 190mg/kg, Taurine 200mg/kg. Trace Elements: Iron (Iron(II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 56mg/kg, Iodine (Calcium iodate, anhydrous) 1.8mg/kg, Copper (Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate) 9.4mg/kg, Manganese (manganese (II) oxide) 12.3mg/kg, Manganese (manganese sulphate monohydrate) 21mg/kg, Zinc (Zinc sulpate monohydrate) 127mg/kg, Zinc (Zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate) 8mg/kg, Non Stated Antioxidants

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Poultry meal”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Poultry meal (min 34% chicken)Named meat34%
MaizeGrainNot given
Chicken fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Rice (min 5%)Grain5%
Chicken liverNamed meatNot given
LinseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
AlfalfaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Maize glutenFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Yeast (source of mannan oligosaccharides)OtherNot given
PeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
CarrotVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
SeaweedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
TomatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Milk thistleOtherNot given
Yucca schidigeraOtherNot given
MarigoldOtherNot given
NettleVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
MintVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
RosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
BlackcurrantVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 31% and carbs about 41%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein28%31%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat16%18%
Carbohydrate~37%~41%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash6.5%7.2%
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.

Energy369 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 34

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

  1. How much meat?

    13.8 / 45
    • Meat on the label11.9 / 35

      34% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level1.9 / 10

      Protein is 31.1% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    6.5 / 20

    About 40.6% 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?

    9.4 / 15
    • How the meat is listed6.4 / 12

      The label lists the meat as meal and fresh, which earns 53% 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

Top 39% of dry foods. 36 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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 41% to 22% by dry weight, and protein is about 37%.

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

3 noted, none cost points: mint, oregano and yucca extract. 39 flagged nothing.

  • 3 noted
  • 39 nothing flagged
39 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, aniseed, antioxidants, beetroot, blackcurrant, carob, carrot, dandelion root, fenugreek, ginger, linseed (flaxseed), liver (animal organ), maize (corn), maize (corn) gluten, marigold meal, milk thistle, nettle, peas, pomegranate extract, poultry, poultry fat, rice, rosehips, rosemary, seaweed, spinach, taurine, thyme, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato, 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. Down 3% since 10 Aug.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Pets at Home12kg · £27.79 down 3% since 10 Aug12kg£27.79£2.32/kgVisit

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

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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£28.79£2.40/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 13 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
57% this food 34%
Carbs
about 36% this food about 41%
To feed
27% less per 1,000 kcal

+13 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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