Arkwrights

Arkwrights Extra: Sensitive Chicken review

Name: Arkwrights Extra: Sensitive Chicken
Brand: Arkwrights

25.6/100Poor

DryAdult

Flavour

A plain cereal-and-meat kibble that has never pretended to be anything else. Both recipes print a named meat share, let cereals carry the bulk and close on a fully dosed vitamin and mineral panel. For a dog that thrives on simple food, it keeps the job simple.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that have always got on with a straightforward beef or chicken kibble
Owners who read the panel: every vitamin and trace element has a dose
Adult dogs from toy breeds to giants
Dogs that need fat kept moderate, at 10% in both

Worth watching

Cereals never itemised, so you cannot tell which grains are inside
Meat and animal derivatives, which may hold other animals beyond the named one

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

How this scores

How we score

25.6/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyPoor

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, from 200 grams a day for a 10kg dog up to 680 for a 45kg one. Read the label closely first if your dog is on an exclusion plan.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Arkwrights Extra 27.7
Sensitive Chicken 25.6

All two Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The low placing is about how little the label declares, with nothing worrying in the bowl itself.

What's in it

CerealsNot itemised.
Meat and animal derivatives (including 14% chicken)26%Chicken named at 14%; the rest is open.
Oils and fats
Vegetable protein extracts (maize gluten)Named as maize gluten, worth knowing for a dog kept off maize.
Minerals
FOS0.2%A prebiotic fibre, behind the sensitive billing.
Yucca extract

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

Named ingredients

Cereals, meat and animal derivatives (26% including 14% chicken), oils and fats, vegetable protein extracts (maize gluten), minerals, FOS (0.2%), yucca extract.

Against the range

Named meat: 14% chicken in a 26% share; 14% beef on the original.
Carbohydrate: 52.1% of dry matter; 49.5% on the beef.
Gut support: FOS and yucca extract; Not on the beef.

The one to choose for a dog that does better with a little prebiotic help.

Two recipes on one plain construction. Cereals lead both labels as a category term, so the grain mix can change between batches. The meat is meat and animal derivatives with a named share pinned to it, 14% beef on one and 14% chicken on the other, and vegetable protein extracts behind. Carbohydrate converts to 49.5% and an estimated 52.1% of dry matter. Fat is 10% on both, and every vitamin and trace element is dosed in print.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

330 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

22%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

23.9%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

52.1%

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

28.4%

Carbs

55.7%

Oils

9.2%

Other

6.6%

Pricing & size