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Amazon Premium Dry: Large Adult Chicken review

Name: Amazon Premium Dry: Large Adult Chicken
Brand: Amazon

53.5/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Amazon's own-brand dry range runs to size-specific chicken recipes, a light senior and a lamb-led sensitive, and all five sit in our Good band. The supplement list is more considered than the plain packaging suggests. Algae oil supplies marine omega 3s without any fish oil, and a probiotic runs through every bag.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners matching kibble to dog size, with mini, medium and large recipes
Greying dogs thickening around the middle, on the senior light
Dogs needing a gentler recipe. The sensitive swaps wheat and maize for rice and pea starch
Skin and gut extras as standard in every variety
Big dogs with loaded joints, with glucosamine in the large adult

Worth watching

Chicken and unnamed poultry in all five, the lamb included, so none suits a chicken-free or elimination diet
Wheat and maize in the four chicken recipes

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

How this scores

How we score

53.5/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Each recipe is listed for adults of a set size, with the senior and sensitive covering every size. Pick by your dog's adult weight, then let the waistline settle the portion.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Sensitive Adult Lamb 57.9
Mini Adult Chicken 55.4
Large Adult Chicken 53.5
Medium Adult Chicken 52.9
Senior Light Chicken 50.7

All five Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The spread between the five comes from naming, not nutrition, and the lamb-led sensitive recipe edges ahead because its label says the most.

What's in it

Dehydrated poultry proteinConcentrated, so protein holds up. The bird is not named.
Maize, wheatMaize ahead of wheat here.
Poultry fat, rice
Fresh chicken4%More garnish than foundation.
Hydrolysed pork and poultry proteinsPork on the label too.
Dried chicory pulp, brewer's yeasts
Algae oilEPA and DHA directly, with no fish oil involved.
FOS, minerals, yeast cell walls0.05% each for FOS and cell wallsPrebiotic fibre.
Glucosamine hydrochloride, inactivated LactobacillusGlucosamine with heavily loaded joints in mind.

Iron, zinc, manganese and copper in both standard and chelated forms, all dosed, plus an Enterococcus faecium probiotic.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated Poultry Protein, Maize, Wheat, Poultry Fat, Rice, Fresh Chicken (4%), Hydrolysed Pork and Poultry Proteins, Dried Chicory Pulp, Dried Brewer's Yeasts, Algae Oil (Source of EPA and DHA), Fructo-oligosaccharides (0.05%), Minerals, Yeast Cell Walls (Source of Mannan-oligosaccharides and β-glucans) (0.05%), Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Lactobacillus Helveticus HA-122 inactivated (0.005%).

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 18.9%; Richest in the range
Joint support: Glucosamine; Also in the senior; not in the mini, medium or sensitive
Feeding table: 25kg to 60kg; Mini from 1kg, medium from 10kg

Built for big frames.

All five are built on dehydrated and hydrolysed proteins, with fresh chicken at 4% in every recipe and poultry unnamed. Each carries algae oil for EPA and DHA, FOS and yeast cell walls for prebiotic fibre, an Enterococcus faecium probiotic and an inactivated Lactobacillus culture. The mineral panel mixes standard salts with chelated iron, zinc, manganese and copper, all dosed.

The starch is what varies: wheat, maize and rice in the three adult chicken recipes, barley, peas and psyllium added in the senior, and rice, brown rice and pea starch in the sensitive.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

392 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

6.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

28.9%

Fat

18.9%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

42.8%

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

45%

Carbs

46%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

5.6%

Other

1.6%

Pricing & size