Bakers Meaty Meals Small Dog Adult Dry Dog Food with Tasty Chicken

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Bakers Meaty Meals Small Dog Adult Dry Dog Food with Tasty Chicken

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
14/ 100
WeakTied 1,100th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • No ingredient deductions

Worth knowing

  • 4% meat
  • Meat not named by animal

First ingredients: Cereals (wholegrains 40%), meat and animal derivatives (of which 4% chicken), Glycerol, Oils and fats, Minerals… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
4%
Protein, dry weight
29%
Carbs, dry weight
~44%
kcal/100 g
335

Ingredients

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

Cereals (wholegrains 40%), meat and animal derivatives (of which 4% chicken), Glycerol, Oils and fats, Minerals, Derivatives of vegetable origin

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

IU/kg : Vitamin A : 19000; Vitamin D3 : 1100; Vitamin E : 90;mg/kg : Iron (II) sulphate monohydrate : (Fe: 78); Calcium iodate anhydrous : (I: 1.9); Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate : (Cu: 8.7); Manganous sulphate monohydrate : (Mn: 5.9); Zinc sulphate monohydrate : (Zn: 110); Sodium selenite : (Se: 0.19) mg/kg: Iron (II) sulphate monohydrate: (Fe: 78); Calcium iodate anhydrous: (I: 1.9); Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate: (Cu: 8.7); Manganous sulphate monohydrate: (Mn: 5.9); Zinc sulphate monohydrate: (Zn: 110); Sodium selenite: (Se: 0.19)

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 40%)Vegetable, fruit or plant40%
meat and animal derivatives (of which 4% chicken)Named meat4%
GlycerolFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
Oils and fatsFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientPart of the item above
MineralsOtherNot given
Derivatives of vegetable originA group name, not one ingredientNot given

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Nutrition

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

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein25%29%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12%14%
Carbohydrate~37%~44%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.5%2.9%
Ash8%9.4%
Moisture15%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.

Energy335 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 14

How it’s made scored best (6 of 20). The kind of meat scored lowest (0 of 15).

  1. How much meat?

    3 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label1.4 / 35 points

      4% 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%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.3 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 44.1% 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?

    0 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed0 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as an unnamed category, which earns 0% 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 1,100th of 1,171 dry foods. 15 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

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

  • 2 noted
  • 13 nothing flagged
13 ingredients with nothing flagged

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

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

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 11% since 10 Aug.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home1kg · £3.29 up 11% since 10 Aug1kg£3.29£3.29/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home1kg£3.29£3.29/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home1kg£2.96£2.96/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home1kg£2.96£2.96/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 35 to 44 points higher and cost up to 25% more.

Compare side by side →
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Carbs
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To feed
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+44 pointsCompare

Meat
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Carbs
about 24% this food about 44%
To feed
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+43 pointsCompare

Meat
59% this food 4%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 44%
To feed
55% less per 1,000 kcal

+35 pointsCompare

Meat
68% this food 4%
Carbs
about 43% this food about 44%
To feed
25% more per 1,000 kcal

+35 pointsCompare

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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