Chudleys Working Adult Dry Dog Food Salmon with Rice & Veg

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Chudleys Working Adult Dry Dog Food Salmon with Rice & Veg

DryCompleteAdultContains grainFish oil
30/ 100
WeakTied 569th of 1,171 dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Fresh meat, named by animal
  • About 51% carbs (dry weight)

First ingredients: Whole grain maize, Salmon (min 26%), Prairie meal, Whole grain barley, Chicken fat… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
26%
Protein, dry weight
26%
Carbs, dry weight
~51%
kcal/100 g
351

Ingredients

Listed first: Whole grain maize. 26% of the recipe is declared meat.

Whole grain maize, Salmon (min 26%), Prairie meal, Whole grain barley, Chicken fat, Rice (min 4%), Unmolassed beet pulp, Minerals, Alfalfa, Peas, (min 4% total vegetables). Yeast (source of mannan oligosaccharides), Salmon oil (source of omega 3 fatty acids), Dandelion leaves, Green lipped mussel (400mg/kg), Celery seed, Nettle leaves, Glucosamine (350mg/kg), Burdock root, Devil's claw root, Blackcurrant, Rosemary, Pomegranate, Rosehips, Yucca schidigera, Beetroot

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

Vitamin A/3a672a 17,500 IU/kg, Vitamin D/3a671 1,750 IU/kg, Vitamin E/3a700 385mg/kg, L-carnitine 400mg/kg Taurine 400mg/kg. Trace Elements: Iron (Iron(II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 20mg/kg, Iodine (Calcium iodate, anhydrous) 1.5mg/kg, Copper (Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate) 8mg/kg, Manganese (manganese (II) oxide) 45mg/kg, Zinc (Zinc sulphate monohydrate) 110mg/kg, Zinc (Zinc chelate of glycine hydrate(solid)) 35mg/kg, Non Stated Antioxidants

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Whole grain maize”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Whole grain maizeGrainNot given
Salmon (min 26%)Named meat26%
Prairie mealOtherNot given
Whole grain barleyGrainNot given
Chicken fatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Rice (min 4%)Grain4%
Unmolassed beet pulpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
AlfalfaVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
PeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Salmon oil (source of omega 3 fatty acids)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
Dandelion leavesOtherNot given
Green lipped mussel (400mg/kg)Named meatNot given
Celery seedVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Nettle leavesVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Glucosamine (350mg/kg)OtherNot given
Burdock rootOtherNot given
Devil's claw rootOtherNot given
BlackcurrantVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
RosemaryVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 26% and carbs about 51%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein23%26%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12%13%
Carbohydrate~46%~51%
above the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
Ash5.8%6.4%
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.

Energy351 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 30

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). Starch scored lowest (2.9 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    10 / 45
    • Meat on the label9.1 / 35

      26% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level0.9 / 10

      Protein is 25.6% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    2.9 / 20

    About 51.4% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12 / 15
    • How the meat is listed12 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% 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

      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 569th of 1,171 dry foods. 43 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 51% to 32% by dry weight, and protein is about 39%.

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 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 33 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 33 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
33 ingredients with nothing flagged

Alfalfa, antioxidants, barley, beet pulp, beetroot, blackcurrant, burdock root, celery, dandelion root, glucosamine, green-lipped mussel, l-carnitine, maize (corn), minerals, nettle, peas, pomegranate extract, poultry, poultry fat, rice, rosehips, rosemary, salmon, salmon oil, tocopherols (vitamin E), yeast

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

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

Sources for these ingredients
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Devil's claw root

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

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Pets at Home14kg · £42.99 up 11% since 10 Aug14kg£42.99£3.07/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home14kg£42.99£3.07/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home14kg£38.69£2.76/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home14kg£38.69£2.76/kg

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Alternatives

2 dry foods score 19 to 27 points higher and cost up to 17% more.

Compare side by side →
Meat
73% this food 26%
Carbs
about 24% this food about 51%
To feed
17% more per 1,000 kcal

+27 pointsCompare

Meat
59% this food 26%
Carbs
about 33% this food about 51%
To feed
50% less per 1,000 kcal

+19 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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