Walker and Drake Chicken Cold Pressed Working Dog Food

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Walker and Drake Chicken Cold Pressed Working Dog Food

DryCompleteAdultContains grain
41/ 100
WeakTop 18% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

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.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Dried Chicken 41%Named meat41%
Pre Gelatinised Rice 26%Grain26%
Sweet PotatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Flaked PotatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Brewers YeastOtherNot given
Poultry FatFat, stock, extract or other processed ingredientNot given
AppleVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
CarrotVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
TomatoVegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 37% and carbs about 42%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein33%37%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat7%7.8%
Carbohydrate~38%~42%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2%2.2%
Ash10%11%
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.

Energy308 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 41

The kind of meat scored best (8.4 of 15). Starch scored lowest (5.9 of 20).

  1. 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%.

  2. How much starch?

    5.9 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 42.2% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    10 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Cold-pressed: 10 of 20.

  4. 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

Top 18% of dry foods. 25 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 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.

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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
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

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Walker & Drake12kg · £41.9912kg£41.99£3.50/kgVisit
Walker & Drake3 x 100g · £2.99Sample, trial, clearance or introductory price, not compared3 x 100g£2.99Not givenVisit

Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Walker & Drake12kg£41.99£3.50/kg
28 Sep 2026Walker & Drake12kg£41.99£3.50/kg

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Alternatives

4 dry foods score 8 to 19 points higher and cost up to 12% more.

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Meat
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Carbs
about 8% this food about 42%
To feed
9% more per 1,000 kcal

+19 pointsCompare

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Carbs
about 24% this food about 42%
To feed
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+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).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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