Bakers Adult Dry Dog Food with Tasty Chicken & Country Vegetables

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Bakers Adult Dry Dog Food with Tasty Chicken & Country Vegetables

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
11/ 100
WeakTied 1,134th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 27 Sep 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • 4% meat
  • About 56% carbs (dry weight)
  • Some meat not named by animal

First ingredients: Cereals (wholegrains 55%), meat and animal derivatives (20%of which 4% chicken), derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
4%
Protein, dry weight
22%
Carbs, dry weight
~56%
kcal/100 g
346

Ingredients

Listed first: Cereals. 4% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 4%
  • Plants 56%
  • Other 0.2%
  • No amount given 39.8%

Cereals (wholegrains 55%), meat and animal derivatives (20%of which 4% chicken), derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats, glycerol, vegetables* ** (1% dried spinach, 0.3% dried pea and 0.3% dried carrot), minerals, vegetable protein extracts, spirulina* (0.2%). *natural ingredients, **equivalent to 4% rehydrated vegetables

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

From the maker’s website, checked 27 Sep 2026.

Additives

IU/kg: Vitamin A: 17500; Vitamin D3: 1000; Vitamin E: 83 mg/kg : Iron (II) sulphate monohydrate : (Fe: 72); Calcium iodate anhydrous : (I: 1.8); Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate : (Cu: 8.0); Manganous sulphate monohydrate : (Mn: 5.5); Zinc sulphate monohydrate : (Zn: 100); Sodium selenite : (Se: 0.17)

How we read this label

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

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Cereals (wholegrains 55%)Vegetable, fruit or plant55%
meat and animal derivatives (20%of which 4% chicken)Named meat4%
derivatives of vegetable originA group name, not one ingredientNot given
oils and fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
glycerolFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
vegetables* ** (1% dried spinach, 0.3% dried pea and 0.3% d…Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
mineralsOtherNot given
vegetable protein extractsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
spirulina* (0.2%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.2%

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Nutrition

Protein 22% and carbs about 56%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein20%22%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat10%11%
Carbohydrate~50%~56%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
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.

Energy346 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 11

How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). Meat scored lowest (1.8 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    1.8 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label1.4 / 35 points

      4% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.4 / 10 points

      Protein is 22.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    1.5 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 55.6% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    2.4 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed2.4 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as an unnamed category and fresh, which earns 20% 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

Tied 1,134th of 1,171 dry foods. 12 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 56% to 35% 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

2 noted: meat and animal derivatives, and derivatives of vegetable origin.

  • 2 noted
  • 16 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
16 ingredients with nothing flagged

Cereals, glycerol, minerals, oils and fats, spirulina, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, vegetables

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

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: copper, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)

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

Sources for these ingredients
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Equivalent to 4% rehydrated vegetables

Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.

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 21% since 10 Aug.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home14kg · £34.99 up 21% since 10 Aug14kg£34.99£2.50/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home3kg · £8.39 up 11% since 10 Aug3kg£8.39£2.80/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 21%.

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Every reading we have, newest first
DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home14kg£34.99£2.50/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home3kg£8.39£2.80/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home14kg£31.49£2.25/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home3kg£7.50£2.50/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home14kg£29.00£2.07/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home3kg£7.55£2.52/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 38 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
59% this food 4%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 56%
To feed
39% less per 1,000 kcal

+38 points

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

Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 27 Sep 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 27 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

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

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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