Beta Adult Chicken

Name: Beta Adult Chicken
Brand: Beta

DryCompleteAdultContains grain

WeakTied 699th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 10 Aug 2026

No ingredient deductions

About 47% carbs (dry weight)
Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Chicken meal (28%), wheat*, corn*, poultry fat, wheat middling… All ingredients

Label checked

Meat: 28%
Protein, dry weight: 28%
Carbs, dry weight: ~47%
kcal/100 g: 337

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken meal. 28% of the recipe is declared meat.

Meat 28%
Plants 1%
Other 0.2%
No amount given 70.8%

Chicken meal (28%), wheat*, corn*, poultry fat, wheat middling, dried beet pulp, digest, soya meal, dried chicory root* (1%), minerals, dried carrot* (0.07%), dried spinach* (0.07%), dried parsley* (0.07%). *Natural ingredients

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (21,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1200 IU), vitamin E (100 IU), ferrous sulphate monohydrate (86mg), calcium iodate anhydrous (2.2mg), cupric sulphate pentahydrate (9.5mg), manganous sulphate monohydrate (6.5mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate (120mg), sodium selenite (0.21mg). Antioxidants.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Chicken meal”. It names the animal.

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
Chicken meal (28%)	Named meat	28%
wheat*	Grain	Not given
corn*	Grain	Not given
poultry fat	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
wheat middling	Grain	Not given
dried beet pulp	Vegetable, fruit or plant	Not given
digest	Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient	Not given
soya meal	Other	Not given
dried chicory root* (1%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	1%
minerals	Other	Not given
dried carrot* (0.07%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	0.07%
dried spinach* (0.07%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	0.07%
dried parsley* (0.07%)	Vegetable, fruit or plant	0.07%

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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%	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.

Energy337 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 26

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (4.4 of 20).

How much meat?
11.1 / 45 points
- Meat on the label9.8 / 35 points
  28% 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?
4.4 / 20 points
Estimated carbohydrate: About 46.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
5 / 20 points
How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.
What kind of meat?
6 / 15 points
- How the meat is listed6 / 12 points
  The label lists the meat as meal, which earns 50% 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 699th of 1,171 dry foods. 51 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

Nothing flagged in 22 ingredients.

22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, beet pulp, carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, digest (rendered meat digest), maize (corn), minerals, poultry fat, soya (soybean), spinach, tocopherols (vitamin E), wheat, wheat middlings

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