Chudleys Original Working Dog Dry Food

1 price from Jollyes

Chudleys Original Working Dog Dry Food

DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil
5/ 100
WeakTied 1,169th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Worth knowing

  • Dextrose (a sugar): −10 points
  • 14% meat
  • About 56% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Flaked Whole grain wheat, Poultry meal (min) (14%), Flaked Whole grain whole grain maize, whole grain wheat, Chicken fat… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
14%
Protein, dry weight
22%
Carbs, dry weight
~56%
kcal/100 g
344

Ingredients

Listed first: Flaked Whole grain wheat. 14% of the recipe is declared meat.

Flaked Whole grain wheat, Poultry meal (min) (14%), Flaked Whole grain whole grain maize, whole grain wheat, Chicken fat, Glucose syrup, Rice Lamb meal, Hydrolysed chicken Flaked peas, Wheatfeed, Unmolassed beet pulp, Turkey meal, Prairie meal, Alfalfa, Rapeseed oil, Salmon oil, Minerals, Yeast (source of mannan oligosaccharides), Salmon oil, Full fat linseed, Blackcurrant, Rosemary, Pomegranate, Rosehips, Yucca schidigera, Beetroot

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Flaked Whole grain wheat”. 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
Flaked Whole grain wheatGrainNot given
Poultry meal (min) (14%)Meat, animal not named14%
Flaked Whole grain whole grain maizeGrainNot given
whole grain wheatGrainNot given
Chicken fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Glucose syrupFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Rice Lamb mealNamed meatNot given
Hydrolysed chicken Flaked peasNamed meatNot given
WheatfeedOtherNot given
Unmolassed beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Turkey mealNamed meatNot given
Prairie mealOtherNot given
AlfalfaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Rapeseed oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Salmon oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
Yeast (source of mannan oligosaccharides)OtherNot given
Salmon oilFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Full fat linseedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
BlackcurrantVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 22% and carbs about 56%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein20%22%
below the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat11.5%13%
Carbohydrate~50%~56%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2.8%3.1%
Ash5.5%6.1%
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.

Energy344 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 5

The kind of meat scored best (4.2 of 15). Starch scored lowest (1.4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    5.3 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label4.9 / 35 points

      14% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.4 / 10 points

      Protein is 22.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    1.4 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 55.8% 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 hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    4.2 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed4.2 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as unnamed meal, meal and hydrolysed, which earns 35% 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.

Points lost for ingredients: Dextrose (−10).

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

Against other dry foods

Tied 1,169th of 1,171 dry foods. 2 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 56% to 35% by dry weight, and protein is about 37%.

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 ingredient costs 10 points: dextrose. 2 more noted. 18 flagged nothing.

  • 1 costs points
  • 2 noted
  • 18 nothing flagged
  • 2 not in our ingredient database yet
18 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, beet pulp, beetroot, blackcurrant, linseed (flaxseed), minerals, pomegranate extract, poultry, poultry fat, rapeseed oil, rice, rosehips, rosemary, salmon oil, turkey, wheat, wheat middlings, yeast

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients
2 not in our ingredient database yet

Flaked whole grain wheat, flaked whole grain whole grain maize

Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.

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 £1.79/kg at Jollyes, 4 Oct 2026.

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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Jollyes14KG · £25.00Out of stock14KG£25.00£1.79/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 10 Aug (3 readings).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Jollyes14KG£25.00 (out of stock)£1.79/kg
27 Sep 2026Jollyes14KG£25.00 (out of stock)£1.79/kg
10 Aug 2026Jollyes14KG£25.00 (out of stock)£1.79/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 44 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
59% this food 14%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 56%
To feed
16% less per 1,000 kcal

+44 points

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: Jollyes.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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