Bakers Adult Small Dog with Tasty Chicken & Country Vegetables

Name: Bakers Adult Small Dog with Tasty Chicken & Country Vegetables
Brand: Bakers

DryCompleteAdultContains grain

WeakTied 1,077th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

No ingredient deductions

4% meat
About 47% carbs (dry weight)
Some meat not named by animal

First ingredients: Cereals (44% wholegrains*), meat and animal by-products (18%, of which 4% chicken), vegetable protein extracts… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page

Meat: 4%
Protein, dry weight: 28%
Carbs, dry weight: ~47%
kcal/100 g: 338

Ingredients

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

Meat 4%
Plants 45%
Other 0.2%
No amount given 50.8%

Cereals (44% wholegrains*), meat and animal by-products (18%, of which 4% chicken), vegetable protein extracts, vegetable by-products, oils and fats, glycerol, vegetables* ** (1% dried spinach, 0.3% dried peas, 0.3% dried carrots), minerals, spirulina* (0.2%)

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 72mg), 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 (44% wholegrains*)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	44%
meat and animal by-products (18%, of which 4% chicken)	Named meat	4%
vegetable protein extracts	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Part of the item above
vegetable by-products	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
oils and fats	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
glycerol	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
vegetables* ** (1% dried spinach, 0.3% dried peas, 0.3% dri…	Vegetable, fruit or plant	1%
minerals	Other	Not given
spirulina* (0.2%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	0.2%

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 47%, 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	25%	28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat	12%	13%
Carbohydrate	~42%	~47%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre	3.5%	3.9%
Ash	7%	7.8%
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.

Energy338 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 15

How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). Meat scored lowest (2.7 of 45).

How much meat?
2.7 / 45 points
- Meat on the label1.4 / 35 points
  4% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level1.3 / 10 points
  Protein is 27.8% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
4.3 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 47.2% 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?
2.7 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed2.7 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as an unnamed category and fresh, which earns 22% 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

Tied 1,077th of 1,171 dry foods. 23 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 47% to 30% 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

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

2 noted
16 nothing flagged

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)
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)

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: 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