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Walker and Drake Chicken Cold Pressed Working Dog Food
Good points
- No ingredient deductions
- Cold-pressed, not extruded
First ingredients: Dried Chicken 41%, Pre Gelatinised Rice 26%, Sweet Potato, Flaked Potato, Brewers Yeast… All ingredients
Label taken from the maker’s website- Meat
- 41%
- Protein, dry weight
- 37%
- Carbs, dry weight
- ~42%
- kcal/100 g
- 308
Ingredients
Listed first: Dried Chicken. 41% of the recipe is declared meat.
Dried Chicken 41%, Pre Gelatinised Rice 26%, Sweet Potato, Flaked Potato, Brewers Yeast, Poultry Fat, Apple, Carrot, Tomato
Meat named animal proteinGrain cereals
From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.
Additives
per kg: Vitamins (per kg): Vitamin A 15,000 IU, Vitamin D3 2,000 IU, Vitamin E 50 IU, Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) 3mg, Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 8mg, Vitamin B6 5mg, Vitamin B12 40 mcg, Vitamin C 50 mg, Vitamin K 2mg. Trace Elements (per kg): Zinc 100mg, Manganese 80 mg, Copper 20mg, Iron 30 mg.
How we read this label
First ingredient: “Dried Chicken 41%”. It names the animal.
| On the label | We read it as | Share on the label |
|---|---|---|
| Dried Chicken 41% | Named meat | 41% |
| Pre Gelatinised Rice 26% | Grain | 26% |
| Sweet Potato | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Flaked Potato | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Brewers Yeast | Other | Not given |
| Poultry Fat | Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient | Not given |
| Apple | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Carrot | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
| Tomato | Vegetable, fruit or plant | Not given |
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Nutrition
Protein 37% and carbs about 42%, with the water taken out.
| Nutrient | As sold | Dry weight |
|---|---|---|
| Protein | 33% | 37% |
| above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods | ||
| Fat | 7% | 7.8% |
| Carbohydrate | ~38% | ~42% |
| within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods | ||
| Fibre | 2% | 2.2% |
| Ash | 10% | 11% |
| Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed | 10% | 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.
Why it scores 41
The kind of meat scored best (8.4 of 15). Starch scored lowest (5.9 of 20).
How much meat?
17.2 / 45 points- Meat on the label14.4 / 35 points
41% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.
- Protein level2.8 / 10 points
Protein is 36.7% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.
How much starch?
5.9 / 20 pointsEstimated carbohydrate: About 42.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.
How processed?
10 / 20 pointsHow it’s made: Cold-pressed: 10 of 20.
What kind of meat?
8.4 / 15 points- How the meat is listed8.4 / 12 points
The label lists the meat as dried, 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 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
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 42% to 28% by dry weight, and protein is about 45%.
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 20 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.
20 ingredients with nothing flagged
Apples, carrot, chicken, potato, poultry fat, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), tomato, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), yeast
Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, 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
- FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines for Complete and Complementary Pet Food for Cats and Dogs (2025)Apples, poultry fat, tomato, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), yeast, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc
- Reg (EU) No 68/2013 - EU Catalogue of Feed Materials (EUR-Lex)Apples, carrot, chicken, potato, poultry fat, sweet potato, tomato, yeast
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1152Tocopherols (vitamin E)
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1095 (EUR-Lex)Zinc
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1490 (EUR-Lex)Manganese
- FDA Animal Health Literacy - Vitamin D toxicity in dogsVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Fieten 2016 Int J Mol Sci 17(2):196 doi:10.3390/ijms17020196Copper
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1492 (EUR-Lex)Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol)
- Regulation (EU) 2018/1039 (EUR-Lex)Copper
1 not in our ingredient database yet
Pre gelatinised rice
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: Walker & Drake. Checked 4 Oct 2026.
In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery
Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).
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| Day | Shop | Pack | Price | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Oct 2026 | Walker & Drake | 12kg | £41.99 | £3.50/kg |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Walker & Drake | 12kg | £41.99 | £3.50/kg |
Your dog
Cost per day and grams for your dog
Alternatives
4 dry foods score 8 to 19 points higher and cost up to 12% more.

- Meat
- 78% this food 41%
- Carbs
- about 8% this food about 42%
- To feed
- 9% more per 1,000 kcal
+19 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 73% this food 41%
- Carbs
- about 24% this food about 42%
- To feed
- 10% less per 1,000 kcal
+16 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 74% this food 41%
- Carbs
- about 27% this food about 42%
- To feed
- 12% more per 1,000 kcal
+16 pointsCompare

- Meat
- 59% this food 41%
- Carbs
- about 33% this food about 42%
- To feed
- 62% less per 1,000 kcal
+8 pointsCompare
Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.
Sources
Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.
From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.
Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Walker & Drake (the maker).
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