Almo Nature

Almo Nature Holistic Adult Medium: Chicken review

Name: Almo Nature Almo Nature Holistic Adult Medium: Chicken
Brand: Almo Nature

65.1/100Good

DryAdult

Almo Nature Holistic Adult Medium is a chicken-first kibble that keeps its recipe short and its declarations honest. Chicken accounts for 32.7% of the recipe with the fresh and dried shares printed separately, dried beef adds another 12.1%, and maize and rice do the carrying. It finishes in our Good band with a transparency pillar that reads Outstanding.

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Our view

Likely to suit

If your middleweight dog has never met a chicken dinner it did not finish, this one should go down just as easily.

Medium and large breed adults, the frames the kibble and the feeding guide are sized for
Chicken enthusiasts, with 32.7% chicken split between a 26% fresh share and a 6.7% dried one
Dogs that benefit from gut support, since MOS and chicory inulin both feature as prebiotics
Owners who read labels closely, because the additive panel is dosed entry by entry

Worth watching

Knowing what shares the bowl with the headline bird will save you a surprise later.

Dried beef at 12.1% and a hydrolysed animal protein sit behind the chicken, so a dog on a strict single-meat plan needs a different recipe
Maize and rice are the backbone starches, worth noting for a household avoiding grain

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

65.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The Details

Dog fit

If your middleweight dog has never met a chicken dinner it did not finish, this one should go down just as easily. Knowing what shares the bowl with the headline bird will save you a surprise later.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Our Good band is where this recipe finishes, and the transparency pillar behind that result reads Outstanding, the highest grade a pillar can carry. The typical adult dry food lands in that same Good band, and the difference here is mostly honesty and meat. A large named animal share and a printed fresh and dried split do it, along with carbohydrate at 44.0% of dry matter, just under the 46.2% typical for the category.

What's in it

Ingredients, as declared: Chicken 32.7% (fresh 26%, dried 6.7%), corn, rice, dried beef 12.1%, chicken fat, beet pulp, yeast, minerals, mannanoligosaccharides 0.1%, chicory inulin, a source of phosphorus 0.1%, yucca 0.01%, Chicken (32.7%, of which 26% fresh chicken, 6.7% dried chicken), maize, rice, dried beef (12.1%), wholegrain rice meal, hydrolysed animal protein, chicken fat, beet pulp, yeast, minerals, mannan-oligosaccharides (0.1%), inulin from chicory (0.1%, source of FOS).

Named ingredients

Chicken 32.7% (fresh 26%, dried 6.7%), corn, rice, dried beef 12.1%, chicken fat, beet pulp, yeast, minerals, mannanoligosaccharides 0.1%, chicory inulin, a source of phosphorus 0.1%, yucca 0.01%, Chicken (32.7%, of which 26% fresh chicken, 6.7% dried chicken), maize, rice, dried beef (12.1%), wholegrain rice meal, hydrolysed animal protein, chicken fat, beet pulp, yeast, minerals, mannan-oligosaccharides (0.1%), inulin from chicory (0.1%, source of FOS).

Nutritional additives

Vitamin A (17,500 IU), vitamin D3 (750 IU), vitamin E (300mg), vitamin B1 (12mg), vitamin B2 (14mg), vitamin B6 (12mg), vitamin B12 (0.15mg), vitamin K3 (1mg), folic acid (1mg), calcium-D-pantothenate (20mg), biotin (0.5mg), niacin (25mg), choline chloride (1750mg), iodine (1.07mg), calcium iodate granules [anhydrous] (1.64mg), copper (4.78mg), cupric sulphate pentahydrate (15.96mg), cupric chelate from amino acids hydrate (16.87mg), manganese (6.71mg), manganous sulphate monohydrate (20.67mg), zinc (52.5mg), zinc sulphate monohydrate (125.74mg), zinc chelate from hydrolysed protein (151.37mg), selenium (0.03mg), organic selenium (11.38mg), L-carnitine (50mg), DL-methionine (680mg), tryptophan (150mg).

Ingredient notes

Printing chicken as 32.7% and then breaking it into 26% fresh and 6.7% dried is the kind of labelling we like to see. It shows the recipe is not leaning on water weight to climb the list. Once the oven has done its work, the dried share and the dried beef at 12.1% carry much of the finished protein, which lands at 25% as fed and 27.5% of dry matter.

Maize and rice supply the starch, with carbohydrate estimated at 40.0% as fed. Beet pulp brings fibre, while MOS and chicory inulin are included as prebiotics for the gut.

A hydrolysed animal protein appears without a species attached. It is there as a flavour booster more than a protein source, but it does blur the edges for anyone tracking exactly which animals their dog eats.

The additive panel is thorough, with chelated copper and zinc alongside the standard forms. DL-methionine is dosed at 680mg and tryptophan at 150mg per kilo, and L-carnitine at 50mg, an amino acid involved in turning fat into energy.

Price and value

£3.74 a kilo, with 2kg and 12kg bags available.

Fed to a 15kg adult in moderate condition, that translates to roughly 222 grams and £0.83 a day. The basis is the standard maintenance estimate (110 × bodyweight^0.75, about 840 kcal for a dog of that weight).

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

379 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.5%

Fat

16.5%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

9.3%

Carbs

44%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

89.7%

Carbs

8.3%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

0.9%

Other

0.9%

Pricing & size