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Bakers Meaty Meals Adult: Meaty Meals Adult Chicken Dry Dog Food review

Name: Bakers Meaty Meals Adult: Meaty Meals Adult Chicken Dry Dog Food
Brand: Bakers

30.2/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Average soft, moist kibble for dogs that would sooner chew than crunch. Wholegrain cereals make up 51% of the recipe and glycerol keeps the pieces yielding. The reading reflects how little of the label names a specific ingredient, nothing a healthy dog will notice at dinner time.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Fussy adults that turn away from hard biscuit, moisture held at 15%
Any size of dog, the guide running from a 1kg lap dog to a 70kg giant
Dogs that get on happily with grain
Single-dog homes, where a 1kg bag goes while it is fresh

Worth watching

Only 4% of the meat is named, so an elimination plan cannot use it
Carbohydrate estimated at 51.8% of dry matter against the usual 46.2%
Switching flavours is not a real change of protein

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

How this scores

How we score

30.2/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The table asks 200 to 370 grams between 10kg and 25kg; let the waistline settle where yours sits.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Meaty Meals Adult Beef Dry Dog Food 30.2
Meaty Meals Adult Chicken Dry Dog Food 30.2

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The gap below the usual dry food is almost entirely about naming; the meat, the grain and the oil are all left as families.

What's in it

Cereals (wholegrains)51%Given as a family, so the grain behind it can change between batches.
Meat and animal derivatives, of which chicken4%Only the chicken is pinned down; the rest of the animal content names no species.
GlycerolHolds water in the kibble, which is why the pieces stay soft.
Oils and fatsNo source named.
Minerals
Vegetable protein extractsTops the protein up with plant material.
Derivatives of vegetable origin

Every vitamin and trace mineral dosed in print, the minerals as sulphates and oxides and selenium as sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

Cereals (wholegrains 51%), Meat and animal derivatives (of which 4% chicken), Glycerol, Oils and fats, Minerals, Vegetable protein extracts, Derivatives of vegetable origin

Against the range

Named meat: 4% chicken; 4% beef on the other bag.
Everything else: Same list and analysis; Identical across both.

Pick by which flavour your dog prefers; swapping to the beef is not a change of protein.

Both bags share one list: wholegrain cereals at 51%, meat and animal derivatives with 4% named to the flavour on the front, then glycerol, oils and fats, and plant protein extracts. Glycerol holds moisture at 15%, which keeps the pieces soft. The analysis is identical across the two, protein at 23.5% of dry matter and carbohydrate at 51.8%. Only the named 4% changes.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

328 kcal/100g

Protein

20%

Fat

10%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

15%

Dry weight

Protein

23.5%

Fat

11.8%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

10%

Carbs

51.8%

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

28.5%

Carbs

52.3%

Oils

Other

13.2%

Pricing & size