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Amazon Premium Dry: Senior Light Chicken review

Name: Amazon Premium Dry: Senior Light Chicken
Brand: Amazon

50.7/100Good

DryAdultSenior

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

50.7/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

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, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

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 protein20% chickenChicken is named for part of it.
Wheat, dried peas, maize, barley
Hydrolysed pork and poultry proteins
Poultry fat, rice
Fresh chicken4%
Chicory pulp, vegetable fibre, brewer's yeastFibre for an older digestion.
Algae oil
FOS, psyllium0.05% FOS
Marigold, tomato, green teaLutein, lycopenes and polyphenols.
Minerals, yeast cell walls, glucosamine, chondroitin, inactivated LactobacillusThe joint pair is here.

Taurine at 1000 mg/kg, L-carnitine at 300 mg/kg and vitamin C, with chelated and standard trace minerals and an Enterococcus faecium probiotic.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated Poultry Protein (20% Chicken), Wheat, Dried Peas, Maize, Barley, Hydrolysed Pork and Poultry Proteins, Poultry Fat, Rice, Fresch Chicken (4%), Dried Chicory Pulp, Vegetal Fibers, Dried Brewers's Yeast, Algae Oil (Source of EPA and DHA), Fructo-oligosaccharides (0.05%), Psyllium, Dried Marigold Flower (Source of Lutein), Dried Tomato (Source of Lycopenes), Dried Green Tea (Source of Polyphenols), Minerals, Yeast Cell Walls (Source of Mannan-oligosaccharides and β-glucans) (0.05%), Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulphate, Lactobacillus Helveticus HA-122 inactivated (0.005%).

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 32.2%; Highest; 26.7% on the sensitive
Fat, dry matter: 12.2%; Leanest; up to 18.9% on the large
Extras: Taurine, L-carnitine, glucosamine, chondroitin; The most heavily worked recipe of the five

The pick for an older dog, or any adult whose waistline needs managing.

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

358 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

11%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

5.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

32.2%

Fat

12.2%

Fibre

3.9%

Ash

6.1%

Carbs

45.6%

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

42.5%

Carbs

54.4%

Veg

0.7%

Oils

1.5%

Other

0.9%

Pricing & size