Beta Senior Chicken

1 price from Zooplus UK

Beta Senior Chicken

DryCompleteSeniorContains grainFish oil
25/ 100
WeakTied 750th 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

  • About 52% carbs (dry weight)
  • Includes digest or flavouring

First ingredients: Chicken meal (29%), wheat*, corn*, wheat middling, poultry fat… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
29%
Protein, dry weight
28%
Carbs, dry weight
~52%
kcal/100 g
320

Ingredients

Listed first: Chicken meal. 29% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 29%
  • Plants 1%
  • Other 0.2%
  • No amount given 69.8%

Chicken meal (29%), wheat*, corn*, wheat middling, poultry fat, dried beet pulp, minerals, dried chicory root* (1%), digest, fish oil, 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 (21,200 IU), vitamin D3 (1200 IU), vitamin E (100 IU), ferrous sulphate monohydrate (88mg), calcium iodate anhydrous (2.2mg), cupric sulphate pentahydrate (9mg), manganous sulphate monohydrate (6mg), 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 labelWe read it asShare on the label
Chicken meal (29%)Named meat29%
wheat*GrainNot given
corn*GrainNot given
wheat middlingGrainNot given
poultry fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
dried chicory root* (1%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
digestFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
fish oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
dried carrot* (0.07%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.07%
dried spinach* (0.07%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.07%
dried parsley* (0.07%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.07%

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Nutrition

Protein 28% and carbs about 52%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein25%28%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat8%8.9%
Carbohydrate~47%~52%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.5%2.8%
Ash7.5%8.3%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%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.

Energy320 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 25

The kind of meat scored best (6 of 15). Starch scored lowest (2.6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    11.5 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label10.2 / 35 points

      29% 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%.

  2. How much starch?

    2.6 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 52.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    5 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 1 for digest or flavouring.

  4. 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.

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

Against other dry foods

Tied 750th of 1,171 dry foods. 47 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 Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 52% to 33% by dry weight, and protein is about 35%.

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

Nothing flagged in 22 ingredients.

22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Antioxidants, beet pulp, carrot, chicken, chicory root extract, digest (rendered meat digest), fish oil, maize (corn), minerals, poultry fat, 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

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

Out of stock at every shop we track. Last price £2.36/kg at Zooplus UK, 4 Oct 2026.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Zooplus UK14kg · £33.09Out of stock down 2% since 10 Aug14kg£33.09£2.36/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Zooplus UK down 2%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK14kg£33.09 (out of stock)£2.36/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK14kg£33.09£2.36/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK14kg£33.89£2.42/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

2 dry foods score 10 to 12 points higher and cost up to 20% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
41% this food 29%
Carbs
about 46% this food about 52%
To feed
8% more per 1,000 kcal

+12 pointsCompare

Meat
41% this food 29%
Carbs
about 47% this food about 52%
To feed
20% more per 1,000 kcal

+10 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: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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