Bakers Adult Rich in Chicken with Country Vegetables

Name: Bakers Adult Rich in Chicken with Country Vegetables
Brand: Bakers

DryCompleteAdultContains grain

WeakTied 1,047th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

Propylene glycol: −5 points
14% meat
About 53% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Grains (55% wholegrain*), meat and animal by-products (15%**), vegetable by-products, oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts… All ingredients

Label checked

Meat: 14%
Protein, dry weight: 23%
Carbs, dry weight: ~53%
kcal/100 g: 327

Ingredients

Listed first: Grains. 14% of the recipe is declared meat.

Meat 14%
Plants 55%
Other 0.3%
No amount given 30.7%

Grains (55% wholegrain*), meat and animal by-products (15%**), vegetable by-products, oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts, glycerol, minerals, vegetables*** (0.3% dried pea and 0.3% dried carrot), propylene glycol. *including min. 4% wheat and 4% maize **equivalent to 30% rehydrated meat and animal by products with min. 14% chicken ***equivalent to 4% rehydrated vegetables

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Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (17500 IU), vitamin D3 (1020 IU), vitamin E (83mg), ferrous sulphate monohydrate (72mg), calcium iodate anhydrous (1.8mg), cupric sulphate pentahydrate (8mg), manganous sulphate monohydrate (5mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate (100mg), sodium selenite (0.17mg). With colourings and antioxidants.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Grains”. 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 label	We read it as	Share on the label
Grains (55% wholegrain*)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	55%
meat and animal by-products (15%, of which 14% dried chicke…	Named meat	14%
vegetable by-products	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
oils and fats	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
vegetable protein extracts	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
glycerol	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
minerals	Other	Not given
vegetables*** (0.3% dried pea and 0.3% dried carrot)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	0.3%
propylene glycol	Other	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 23% and carbs about 53%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 10% (assumed), left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	21%	23%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	10%	11%
Carbohydrate	~48%	~53%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	3%	3.3%
Ash	8%	8.9%
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.

Energy327 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 16

The kind of meat scored best (7.8 of 15). Starch scored lowest (2.2 of 20).

How much meat?
5.5 / 45 points
- Meat on the label4.9 / 35 points
  14% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level0.6 / 10 points
  Protein is 23.3% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
2.2 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 53.3% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
6 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.
What kind of meat?
7.8 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed7.8 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as an unnamed category and dried, which earns 65% 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.

Points lost for ingredients: Propylene glycol (−5).

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Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Tied 1,047th 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 53% to 34% 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.

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Ingredient notes

1 ingredient costs 5 points: propylene glycol. 3 more noted. 15 flagged nothing.

1 costs points
3 noted
15 nothing flagged

Propylene glycolCosts 5 points
Why it costs points
A moisture-keeper (E1520). Banned in cat food in the US, it is allowed for dogs, where harm has only been seen at very high doses.
Meat and animal by-productsCounted 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.
Sources
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)
Colourings (not named)Noted, no points taken
The label says colourings but names none and doesn’t call them artificial, so no points were taken.
Derivatives of vegetable originNoted, no points taken
Feed material (declared category)
An unnamed category: the label doesn’t say which plant parts are used.
Sources
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)

15 ingredients with nothing flagged

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

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.

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