Nature's Variety No Grain Mini Adult Free-Range Chicken

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Nature's Variety No Grain Mini Adult Free-Range Chicken

DryCompleteAdultGrain-freeFree-range
36/ 100
WeakTop 32% 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 free-range chicken* (20%), dried chicken protein (19%), dried peas* (17%), dried potatoes* (13%), poultry fat* (7%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
42%
Protein, dry weight
32%
Carbs, dry weight
~37%
kcal/100 g
362

Ingredients

Listed first: Deboned free-range chicken. 42% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 42%
  • Plants 34%
  • Other 11.8%
  • No amount given 12.2%

Deboned free-range chicken* (20%), dried chicken protein (19%), dried peas* (17%), dried potatoes* (13%), poultry fat* (7%), hydrolysed animal protein (4%, poultry, pork, fish), sweet potato* (4%), dried turkey protein (3%), beet pulp*, pea starch*, 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 protein

Additives

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

How we read this label

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

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Deboned free-range chicken* (20%)Named meat20%
dried chicken protein (19%)Named meat19%
dried peas* (17%)Vegetable, fruit or plant17%
dried potatoes* (13%)Vegetable, fruit or plant13%
poultry fat* (7%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient7%
hydrolysed animal protein (4%, poultry, pork, fish)Other4%
sweet potato* (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
dried turkey protein (3%)Named meat3%
beet pulp*Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given
pea starch*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%
Ash8%8.9%
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.

Energy362 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 36

The kind of meat scored best (8.2 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (4 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    16.7 / 45
    • Meat on the label14.7 / 35

      42% 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?

    7.8 / 20

    About 36.7% 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?

    8.2 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8.2 / 12

      The label lists the meat as fresh, meal and unnamed hydrolysed, which earns 69% 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 32% of dry foods. 53 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, beet pulp, carrot, chicken, minerals, peas, potato, poultry fat, starch, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), turkey, 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 3% since 10 Aug.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg · £110.49 up 3% since 10 AugEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg£110.49£7.89/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Zooplus UK7kg · £56.09 up 3% since 10 Aug7kg£56.09£8.01/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UK7kg£56.09£8.01/kg
4 Oct 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg£110.49£7.89/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UK7kg£52.79£7.54/kg
27 Sep 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg£103.99£7.43/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UK7kg£54.69£7.81/kg
10 Aug 2026Zooplus UKEconomy Pack: 2 x 7kg£107.49£7.68/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

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Carbs
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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.

Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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