Arden Grange

Arden Grange Adult Grain Free Superfoods: Duck review

Name: Arden Grange Adult Grain Free Superfoods: Duck
Brand: Arden Grange

68/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A steady, grain-free adult recipe that swaps only the meat between chicken, duck and lamb, all three in our Good band. What sets it apart is the labelling: the meat split, the taurine dose and even the berries are printed with amounts. The superfoods are a garnish; the meat and starch do the work.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that struggle with grain. Sweet potato and tapioca do all the binding
Owners choosing between proteins on one recipe
Adults heading into stiffer years, with glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin in every bag
Label readers who want amounts printed, from the taurine to each berry at 500 mg/kg

Worth watching

Chicken oil and digest in the duck and lamb too, so no variety is chicken free
Krill throughout, which counts as fish for an elimination diet
Superfoods at supplement levels. Choose it for the build of the recipe

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

How this scores

How we score

68/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog in moderate condition eats about 190 grams a day; the label's guide runs 190 to 240 grams for 15 to 20kg, so weigh the first bags.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Duck 68.0
Chicken 67.7
Lamb 67.1

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The three finish within a point of one another, so the meat swap barely moves the score; the shared recipe sets the level.

What's in it

Duck: duck meat meal, fresh duck43% (23% meal, 20% fresh)Meal is dried before it arrives, so the protein claim survives the oven.
Sweet potato19%Leads the starch.
Refined chicken oilChicken in the bowl whatever the meat on the front.
TapiocaA binder and nothing more: starch with little nutrition attached.
Peas, beet pulp, pumpkin
Linseed, krill, coconut oilcoconut oil 1%Omega 3 from plant and marine sources. Krill counts as fish for an elimination diet.
Chicken digest, whole eggThe digest is a flavour coating, and it is chicken.
Yeast, minerals, prebiotic FOS and MOS
Spirulina, chia seeds, cranberry, pomegranate, blueberry, mulberry, lingonberry, rosehip0.1%, berries 500mg/kg eachThe superfood dressing. Amounts printed, and at these levels a flourish.
Yucca extract, glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin, nucleotidesThe joint trio runs through every variety.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, taurine and L-carnitine, plus zinc, copper and manganese as amino acid chelates and natural mixed tocopherols as the antioxidant.

Duck on the front, but chicken oil and chicken digest are on the label.

Named ingredients

Duck 43% (duck meat meal 23%, fresh duck 20%), sweet potato (19%), refined chicken oil, tapioca, peas, beet pulp, pumpkin, linseed, chicken digest, krill, whole egg, coconut oil (1%), yeast, minerals, prebiotic FOS, prebiotic MOS, spirulina (0.1%), chia seeds (0.1%), cranberry extract (500mg/kg), pomegranate extract (500mg/kg), dried blueberries (500 mg/kg), dried mulberries (500mg/kg), dried lingonberries (500mg/kg), dried rosehips (500mg/ kg), yucca extract, glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin, nucleotides.

Against the range

Sweet potato: 19%; The highest; 17% in the chicken, 13% in the lamb
Minerals: Zinc, copper and manganese as chelates; The only one to print them
Moisture: Not declared, 8% assumed; Only the lamb declares it

A less common bird that earns its place for dogs grown tired of chicken.

Each recipe declares its meat at 43% with the split printed, meal and fresh. Sweet potato leads the starch at 13 to 19% with tapioca behind it, and peas, beet pulp and pumpkin fill out the plant side. Taurine is dosed at a full gram per kilo, with L-carnitine and a glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin trio in every bag.

Chicken oil and chicken digest are in all three, so chicken is in every bowl. The analysis reads 28% protein, or 30.4% of dry matter, with estimated carbohydrate between 39.1% and 40.2% of dry matter against the 46.2% of the typical adult dry food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

381 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

40.2%

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

45.6%

Carbs

41.6%

Veg

1.9%

Oils

9.4%

Other

1.6%

Pricing & size