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Bakers Adult: Beef With Country Vegetables review

Name: Bakers Adult: Beef With Country Vegetables
Brand: Bakers

28.2/100Poor

DryAdult

Flavour

One of Britain's most recognisable kibbles, soft and chewy thanks to glycerol, and both varieties sit in our Poor band. Named meat stands at 4% in each, with most of the rest under umbrella terms. It is a complete diet with a full panel; the label simply does not say what is in the bowl.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Fussy eaters that walk away from plainer kibble
A food stocked almost everywhere, with a guide from 1kg toys to 70kg giants
Dogs that do well on grain-led recipes
Rotating flavours, with beef and chicken on the same recipe

Worth watching

Meat and animal derivatives can change species from batch to batch, so elimination feeding cannot run on it
Unspecified wholegrains, a problem for a dog with a known wheat issue
Carbohydrate at an estimated 56.5% of dry matter

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

How this scores

How we score

28.2/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. If your dog has any known food reaction, this label cannot rule it out.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 28.2
With Chicken 27.0

All two Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

Nearly all of the distance to the typical dry food is in the meat: 4% named cannot pull back a label read on its least generous terms.

What's in it

Cereals (wholegrains)59%The label never says which grains.
Meat and animal derivativesAny warm-blooded land animal for the balance.
Beef (within the above)4%The flavour animal.
Derivatives of vegetable origin, incl. dried beet pulp2.9%A useful gentle fibre.
Oils and fatsNo source named.
GlycerolHolds moisture for the chewy texture, with a sweetness dog food does not need.
Vegetable protein extractsAn unstated share of the 20% protein is plant protein.
Minerals
Dried pea, dried carrot0.3% each
Spirulina0.2%

A complete panel dosed in print, with selenium as selenite, not the organic yeast form.

Named ingredients

Cereals (wholegrains* 59%), Meat and animal derivatives (of which 4% beef), Derivatives of vegetable origin (of which 2.9% dried beet pulp), Oils and fats, Glycerol, Vegetable protein extracts, Minerals, Vegetables* (of which 0.3% dried pea and 0.3% dried carrot), Spirulina* (0.2%), *Natural ingredients, equivalent to 4% rehydrated vegetables.

Against the range

Named meat: Beef, 4%; Chicken, 4%, in the other
Named vegetables: Dried pea and carrot, 0.3% each; None itemised in the chicken

The only one of the pair to itemise its vegetables.

Both recipes are one build with the named meat swapped. Wholegrains make up 59%, unspecified. The meat sits under meat and animal derivatives with only the flavour animal pinned at 4%. Glycerol gives the soft bite, vegetable protein extracts lift the protein, and dried beet pulp at 2.9% supplies the fibre.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

343 kcal/100g

Protein

20%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

21.7%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

56.5%

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

24.9%

Carbs

59%

Veg

5.3%

Oils

5.3%

Other

5.5%

Pricing & size