Walker and Drake Puppy Food Premium Cold Pressed - Chicken

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Walker and Drake Puppy Food Premium Cold Pressed - Chicken

DryCompletePuppyGrain-freeFish oil
35/ 100
WeakTop 36% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

  • No ingredient deductions
  • Cold-pressed, not extruded
  • Added plant protein, starch or fibre
  • Includes hydrolysed protein

First ingredients: Dried Chicken 26%, Flaked Potato 25%, Pea Protein 10%, Pea Flour 10%, Potato Protein 6%… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
28%
Protein, dry weight
36%
Carbs, dry weight
~40%
kcal/100 g
370

Ingredients

Listed first: Dried Chicken. 28% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 28%
  • Plants 60%
  • Other 12.2%

Dried Chicken 26%, Flaked Potato 25%, Pea Protein 10%, Pea Flour 10%, Potato Protein 6%, Poultry Fat 6%, Sweet Potato 5%, Brewers Yeast 2%, Beet Pulp 2% (source FOS), Whole Egg Powder 2%, Hydrolysed Chicken 2%, Salmon Oil 1%, Rapeseed Oil 1%, Blueberry 1%, Cranberry 1%, Gelatin Powder 0.1%, Yucca Extract 0.1%, Glucosamine Sulphate (415mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (180mg/kg)

Meat named animal protein

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. Trace Elements (per kg): Zinc (as Zinc oxide) 100mg, Manganese (as Manganese (II) oxide) 80mg, Iron (as Iron (II) sulphate monohydrate) 30mg, Copper (as Copper (II) sulphate pentahydrate) 15mg, Iodine (as Calcium iodate anhydrous) 4mg, Selenium (as Sodium Selenite) 0.1mg.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Dried Chicken 26%”. It names the animal.

On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Dried Chicken 26%Named meat26%
Flaked Potato 25%Vegetable, fruit or plant25%
Pea Protein 10%Vegetable, fruit or plant10%
Pea Flour 10%Vegetable, fruit or plant10%
Potato Protein 6%Vegetable, fruit or plant6%
Poultry Fat 6%Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient6%
Sweet Potato 5%Vegetable, fruit or plant5%
Brewers Yeast 2%Other2%
Beet Pulp 2% (source FOS)Vegetable, fruit or plant2%
Whole Egg Powder 2%Other2%
Hydrolysed Chicken 2%Named meat2%
Salmon Oil 1%Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
Rapeseed Oil 1%Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
Blueberry 1%Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Cranberry 1%Vegetable, fruit or plant1%
Gelatin Powder 0.1%Other0.1%
Yucca Extract 0.1%Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.1%
Glucosamine Sulphate (415mg/kg)OtherNot given
Chondroitin Sulphate (180mg/kg)OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 36% and carbs about 40%, with the water taken out.

As soldDry weight
Protein33%36%
above the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12%13%
Carbohydrate~37%~40%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre2%2.2%
Ash8.5%9.2%
Moisture8%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.

Energy370 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 35

The kind of meat scored best (8 of 15). Meat scored lowest (12.4 of 45).

  1. How much meat?

    12.4 / 45
    • Meat on the label9.8 / 35

      28% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2.6 / 10

      Protein is 35.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    6.8 / 20

    About 39.7% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    8 / 20

    Cold-pressed: 10 of 20. Minus 2 for added plant protein, starch or fibre and hydrolysed protein.

  4. What kind of meat?

    8 / 15
    • How the meat is listed8 / 12

      The label lists the meat as dried and hydrolysed, which earns 67% 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 Forthglade Puppy Chicken & Liver Wet Dog Food (scores 73): carbs fall from 40% to 22% by dry weight, and protein is about 40%.

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

2 noted: hydrolysed proteins and yucca extract. 25 flagged nothing.

  • 2 noted
  • 25 nothing flagged
25 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beet pulp, blueberries, chicken, chondroitin, cranberries, egg, gelatine (hydrolysed), glucosamine, peas, potato, poultry fat, rapeseed oil, salmon oil, sweet potato, tocopherols (vitamin E), vegetable protein extracts, yeast

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

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: Walker & Drake. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

ShopPackPricePer kg
Walker & Drake6kg · £41.996kg£41.99£7.00/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Walker & Drake1.5KG · £13.491.5KG£13.49£8.99/kgVisit

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

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Walker & Drake1.5KG£13.49£8.99/kg
4 Oct 2026Walker & Drake6kg£41.99£7.00/kg
28 Sep 2026Walker & Drake1.5KG£13.49£8.99/kg
28 Sep 2026Walker & Drake6kg£41.99£7.00/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 dry foods score 24 to 27 points higher and cost up to 18% more.

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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
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Carbs
about 26% this food about 40%
To feed
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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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