Arkwrights

Arkwrights Complete: With Beef review

Name: Arkwrights Complete: With Beef
Brand: Arkwrights

23.8/100Poor

DryAdult

Flavour

An old fashioned farmyard kibble, offered with beef or chicken, and both sit in our Poor band. The reason is what the label declines to say. Past a declared 10% of the named meat, almost nothing on it can be verified.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Multi-dog homes, as one bag covers every size from toy to giant
Dogs with sturdy stomachs that have always done well on simple feeds
Easy keepers. Fat at 7% keeps it on the lighter side
Kennels and working homes after a straightforward complete feed

Worth watching

Unnamed cereals, so wheat and maize can be neither confirmed nor ruled out
Animal content beyond the named 10% whose species mix may change between batches
Carbohydrate above 60% of dry matter, well past the 46.2% typical of adult dry food

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

How this scores

How we score

23.8/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyPoor

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. For a grain-sensitive dog, ask Arkwrights which cereals go in before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Chicken 24.6
With Beef 23.8

All two Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

What marks both down is how little the label lets anyone check; nothing here suggests dogs fare badly on it.

What's in it

CerealsAny grain at all, from oats to the lowest grade wheat leavings, and free to change by batch.
Meat and animal derivatives (minimum 10% beef)10%The beef minimum is the only animal figure you can check. Species behind the rest are unnamed.
Oils and fatsSource not given.
Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with copper, iron, iodine, manganese, selenium and zinc, each dosed in print.

Cereals are unnamed, so a grain-sensitive dog cannot be cleared on this label.

Named ingredients

Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (minimum 10% beef), oils and fats, minerals

Against the range

Named meat: Beef, minimum 10%; Chicken, 10%, in the other
Ash: 8%; 6% on the chicken
Vitamin A: 15000 iu/kg; 12000 iu/kg on the chicken

The red meat option, a touch higher in ash, with little else to tell the two apart.

Both labels fit on one line: cereals, meat and animal derivatives with a declared 10% of the named meat, oils and fats, minerals. The cereals are never named and the rest of the animal content sits behind the derivatives umbrella.

Protein reads 19.8% of dry matter in both and fat 7.7%, while the carbohydrate estimate clears 60% on each. The trace elements are dosed identically across the pair, the one patch of precision on an otherwise closed label.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

315 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

19.8%

Fat

7.7%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

60.4%

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

32.5%

Carbs

50%

Oils

10.6%

Other

6.9%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £1.20 (RRP)
Pack: 15 kg SKU S/151B), 4 × 4 kg (multipack) SKU S/105B), 4 kg SKU S/105BA)
A 15kg dog eats: 200 to 370 g a day, 285 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £0.34

Budget end of the market for a dry food, though still priced above what the analysis shows.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.