Arkwrights Complete: With Chicken review

1. With Chicken 24.6
2. 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.

• CerealsUnnamed grain, free to change by batch.
• Meat and animal derivatives (10% chicken)10%The chicken figure is fixed; the rest of the animal content is not named.
• Oils and fats
• Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with the same trace element panel as the beef, plus 18 mg/kg of zinc in chelated form.

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

Named meat

Chicken, 10%

Beef, minimum 10%, in the other

Carbohydrate, dry matter

62.6%

60.4% on the beef

Chelated zinc

18 mg/kg

Not listed on the beef

Slightly more starch than the beef, with part of the zinc in the form a dog's gut takes up more readily.

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.

Price per kilo

£1.23 (RRP)

Pack

15 kg SKU S/151), 4 × 4 kg (multipack) SKU S/105), 4 kg SKU S/105A)

A 15kg dog eats

200 to 370 g a day, 285 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.35

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