Nature's Variety Healthy Grains Mini Adult Chicken

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Nature's Variety Healthy Grains Mini Adult Chicken

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
35/ 100
WeakTop 36% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Some meat not named by animal
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Deboned chicken* (20%), dried chicken protein (19%), dried peas* (13%), oats* (12%), brown rice* (7%)… All ingredients

Ingredients match the maker’s own page
Meat
39%
Protein, dry weight
32%
Carbs, dry weight
~37%
kcal/100 g
363

Ingredients

Listed first: Deboned chicken. 39% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 39%
  • Grain 19%
  • Plants 13%
  • Other 10.8%
  • No amount given 18.2%

Deboned chicken* (20%), dried chicken protein (19%), dried peas* (13%), oats* (12%), brown rice* (7%), wholegrain barley*, poultry fat* (6%), hydrolysed animal protein (4%, poultry, pork, fish), maize protein, beet pulp*, minerals, dried carrots* (0.5%, equivalent to 4% fresh carrots), dried apple* (0.3%, equivalent to 2% fresh apple), dried algae* (0.01%, seaweed), dried rosemary* (0.01%). *natural ingredients

Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: Vitamin A (27,000 IU), vitamin D3 (1200 IU), vitamin E (650mg), vitamin C (300mg), ferrous-(II)-sulphate monohydrate (260mg), potassium iodide (1.9mg), cupric-(II)-sulphate pentahydrate (33mg), manganous sulphate monohydrate (123mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate (370mg), sodium selenite (0.24mg).

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Deboned chicken*”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Deboned chicken* (20%)Named meat20%
dried chicken protein (19%)Named meat19%
dried peas* (13%)Vegetable, fruit or plant13%
oats* (12%)Grain12%
brown rice* (7%)Grain7%
wholegrain barley*GrainNot given
poultry fat* (6%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient6%
hydrolysed animal protein (4%, poultry, pork, fish)Other4%
maize proteinGrainNot given
beet pulp*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
mineralsOtherNot given
dried carrots* (0.5%, equivalent to 4% fresh carrots)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.5%
dried apple* (0.3%, equivalent to 2% fresh apple)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.3%
dried algae* (0.01%, seaweed)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.01%
dried rosemary* (0.01%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.01%

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Nutrition

Protein 32% and carbs about 37%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein29%32%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat17%19%
Carbohydrate~33%~37%
below the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre3%3.3%
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.

Energy363 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 35

The kind of meat scored best (8.4 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    15.7 / 45
    • Meat on the label13.7 / 35

      39% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2 / 10

      Protein is 32.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    7.6 / 20

    About 37.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    4 / 20

    Extruded kibble: 6 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8.4 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8.4 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh, meal and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 70% 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

Top 36% of dry foods. 39 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 37% to 23% by dry weight, and protein is about 43%.

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

1 noted: hydrolysed proteins. 22 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 22 nothing flagged
22 ingredients with nothing flagged

Algae, apples, barley, beet pulp, carrot, chicken, maize (corn) gluten, minerals, oats, peas, poultry fat, rice, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

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

We couldn’t read an amount we can check on the label, so no points were taken: iron

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: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 2% since 10 Aug.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg · £103.49 up 2% since 10 AugEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg£103.49£7.39/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK7kg · £52.49 up 2% since 10 Aug7kg£52.49£7.50/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK7kg£52.49£7.50/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg£103.49£7.39/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK7kg£52.49£7.50/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg£103.49£7.39/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK7kg£51.39£7.34/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg£100.99£7.21/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
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To feed
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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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