Arden Grange

Arden Grange Calming Adult: With fresh turkey & sweet potato review

Name: Arden Grange Calming Adult: With fresh turkey & sweet potato
Brand: Arden Grange

60.7/100Good

DryAdult

A grain-free turkey kibble with a settle-the-nerves brief: dried chamomile at 1% and L-tryptophan dosed in print. Neither is a sedative, and both are gentle nudges under a routine of exercise and training. It sits in our Good band, a shade above the typical adult dry food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Highly strung and storm-shy dogs
Dogs that fare better off grain
Turkey lovers, with the fresh share declared first
Owners who want a full declaration, from chelated minerals to prebiotic amounts

Worth watching

Chicken oil and chicken digest, so not a chicken-free bowl
Krill and whole dried egg, for anyone running an elimination diet
A calming recipe supports training and routine and does not replace them

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

How this scores

How we score

60.7/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The maker's chart spans 170 to 340 grams a day across 10 to 25kg, so weigh your dog before settling on a portion.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

With fresh turkey 60.7

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Honest declarations and a well-dosed supplement list lift it a little above the typical dry food, with meat density playing little part.

What's in it

Turkey: fresh turkey, dried turkey39% (26%, 13%)Fresh meat sheds its water in cooking, so the dried share does more of the protein work than its place suggests.
Sweet potato25%Heads the starch.
Peas, beet pulp, potatoFibre runs a touch high at 4.5%, a profile that tends to suit steady digestion.
Whole linseed
Chicken digest, chicken oilA palatant and a fat, and they keep chicken in the recipe.
Yeast, dried chamomile1% eachChamomile is the herb people have long used to settle nerves.
Whole dried egg, dried krillKrill shares the omega work with the linseed.
Minerals, FOS, nucleotides, MOS900mg/kg FOS, 400mg/kg MOS
Yucca extract, glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin sulphateThe joint trio.
Dried cranberries100mg/kg

L-tryptophan at 2,000mg per kilo, the amino acid the body uses on the way to serotonin, with taurine, L-carnitine and chelated zinc, copper and manganese.

Named ingredients

Turkey 39% (fresh turkey 26%, dried turkey 13%), sweet potato 25%, peas, beet pulp, potato, whole linseed, chicken digest, chicken oil, yeast 1%, dried chamomile 1%, whole dried egg, dried krill, minerals, fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS) 900mg/kg, nucleotides, mannan-oligosaccharides (prebiotic MOS) 400mg/kg, yucca extract, glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), chondroitin sulphate, dried cranberries 100mg/kg.

Against the range

Turkey leads at 39% with the fresh share first, and sweet potato, potato and peas carry the starch with no grain anywhere. The calming entries, the prebiotics and the joint trio are all declared, most with amounts in print.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

351.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

15%

Fibre

4.5%

Ash

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

4.9%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

42.4%

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

42.9%

Carbs

51.9%

Oils

0.8%

Other

4.4%

Pricing & size