Arden Grange

Arden Grange Puppy/Junior Large Breed review

Name: Arden Grange Puppy/Junior Large Breed
Brand: Arden Grange

65.6/100Good

DryPuppy

A chicken kibble in our Good band, built around the figure a big-breed owner should look for first. Calcium is declared and converts to 1.52% of dry matter, inside the range a growing skeleton wants. The joint supplements behind it come with their doses printed.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large breed puppies, for owners who read the calcium line before anything else
Heavy-framed youngsters, with glucosamine and MSM at 370 mg/kg each and chondroitin at 260 mg/kg in print
Growing dogs that need real energy, at 389 kcal per 100g against the 376 typical for a puppy dry food
A household happy on chicken: meat meal at 30% and fresh chicken at 5% do the lifting
Pups whose digestion likes FOS and MOS, named here alongside nucleotides

Worth watching

Rice at 19% and maize doing the binding, so not for a grain free bowl
A starchier bag than most, carbohydrate at an estimated 44.0% of dry matter against 39.0% typical
Krill at the tail of a chicken recipe, which matters for a pup kept clear of fish

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

How this scores

How we score

65.6/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large breed puppies. A growing pup's ration keeps moving, so work from the chart on the bag, which runs from 80g a day up to 360g.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Arden Grange Puppy/Junior Large Breed 65.6

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Declared calcium and printed supplement doses do the most work here; the starch load and a measured protein figure stop it climbing further.

What's in it

Chicken meat meal30%Dried before weighing, so it carries through to the kibble much as printed.
Fresh chicken5%Shrinks a good deal in the oven.
Rice, maize19% (rice)The starch.
Refined chicken oil
Beet pulpGentle, well-tolerated fibre.
Chicken digestA palatant from the same bird.
KrillPuts fish into an otherwise chicken bowl.
Minerals, yeast, whole dried egg, whole linseedEgg for easily used protein, linseed for plant omega 3.
Glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin370, 370 and 260 mg/kgDoses given, not gestured towards.
Prebiotic FOS and MOS, yucca extract, cranberries, nucleotides

Vitamins A, D3 and E, each with its dose given.

Named ingredients

Chicken (chicken meat meal 30%, fresh chicken 5%), rice (19%), maize, refined chicken oil, beet pulp, chicken digest, krill, minerals, yeast, whole dried egg, whole linseed. prebiotic FOS, prebiotic MOS, glucosamine (370 mg/ kg), MSM (370mg/kg), chondroitin (260mg/kg), yucca extract, cranberries, nucleotides.

Against the range

A single chicken growth kibble for big breeds. Chicken meat meal and fresh chicken lead, rice and maize bind it, and calcium is declared, converting to 1.52% of dry matter. Joint supplements, prebiotics and nucleotides all sit in the tail.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

389 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

16%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.6%

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

42.1%

Carbs

48.3%

Oils

6.7%

Other

2.9%

Pricing & size