Bakers Adult Small Dog Meaty Meals Tender Chunks with Tasty Beef

Name: Bakers Adult Small Dog Meaty Meals Tender Chunks with Tasty Beef
Brand: Bakers

DryCompleteAdultContains grain

WeakTop 45% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

No ingredient deductions
Fresh meat, named by animal

First ingredients: Cereals (35% wholegrains), meat and animal by-prodoucts (20%, of which 4% beef), vegetable protein extracts, glycerol… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 20%
Protein, dry weight: 29%
Carbs, dry weight: ~44%
kcal/100 g: 319

Ingredients

Listed first: Cereals. 20% of the recipe is declared meat.

Cereals (35% wholegrains), meat and animal by-prodoucts (20%, of which 4% beef), vegetable protein extracts, glycerol, oils and fats, minerals, vegetable by-products

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (19,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1100 IU), vitamin E (90mg), iron-(II)-sulphate monohydrate (Fe 78mg), calcium iodate anhydrous (I 1.9mg), copper-(II)-sulphate pentahydrate (Cu 8.7mg), manganous sulphate monohydrate (Mn 5.9mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate (Zn 110mg), sodium selenite (Se 0.19mg).

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 label	We read it as	Share on the label
Cereals (35% wholegrains)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	35%
meat and animal by-prodoucts (20%, of which 4% beef)	Named meat	20%
vegetable protein extracts	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Part of the item above
glycerol	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Part of the item above
oils and fats	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Part of the item above
minerals	Other	Not given
vegetable by-products	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given

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Nutrition

Protein 29% and carbs about 44%, with the water taken out.

Make-upwater is 15%, left out

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
Nutrient	As sold	Dry weight
Protein	25%	29%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	12%	14%
Carbohydrate	~37%	~44%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	2.5%	2.9%
Ash	8.5%	10%
Moisture	15%	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.

Energy319 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 32

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). Meat scored lowest (8.6 of 45).

How much meat?
8.6 / 45 points
- Meat on the label7 / 35 points
  20% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.6 / 10 points
  Protein is 29.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.5 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 43.5% 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?
12 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed12 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% 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.

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

Against other dry foods

Top 45% 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 Happy Dog Pure Goat Dog Food (Sardinia) (scores 83): carbs fall from 44% to 28% by dry weight, and protein is about 41%.

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, no points taken: derivatives of vegetable origin. 14 flagged nothing.

1 noted
14 nothing flagged
1 not in our ingredient database yet

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)

14 ingredients with nothing flagged

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

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