Barking Heads

Barking Heads Fat Dog Slim Wet: Chicken review

Name: Barking Heads Fat Dog Slim Wet: Chicken
Brand: Barking Heads

77/100Excellent

WetAdult

A weight-watching wet food with a surprisingly meaty label, reading Excellent on our scoring. The 85% chicken on the front is counted out as 60% fresh deboned chicken and 25% chicken broth. It trims calories per gram and leaves the meat where it is, so a dog eating less still eats properly.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a diet. Each gram carries fewer calories than the typical adult wet food, and the meat share stays high
Owners who check the numbers behind the 85% headline
Grain-free homes: courgette, carrot and sweet potato are the only starch
Fussy eaters on a weight programme, with chicken first on the list
Older joints, with green lipped mussel extract and turmeric included

Worth watching

Fat converts to 31.0% of dry matter. The trim is in calories per gram
Green lipped mussel is a shellfish
One pack size, so a small dog leaves an opened pack to use up

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

How this scores

How we score

77/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label asks 450 grams a day at 5kg and 1200 grams at 30kg on wet food alone; a dog being fed to lose weight sits below that.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 77.0

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A strong showing for a weight food, since trimming calories usually costs a recipe its meat and here it has not.

What's in it

Chicken: fresh deboned chicken, chicken broth85% (60%, 25%)The broth is counted openly. Chicken is the only meat in the pack.
Courgette, carrot, sweet potato, tomatoDoing very little of the lifting. Carbohydrate is an estimated 9.0% of dry matter.
Seaweed, lucerneSeaweed for minerals and iodine.
Green lipped mussel extractA shellfish, long used in joint supplements, and the only other animal source on the list.
Parsley, celery, chicory rootChicory root for the inulin that feeds gut bacteria.
Turmeric, aniseed, green tea
Minerals

A short panel, fully dosed: vitamins D3 and E with zinc, manganese, copper and iodine.

Fibre converts to 7.6% of dry matter, useful in a food meant to leave a dog feeling fed.

Named ingredients

85% Chicken includes - Fresh Deboned Chicken (60%), Chicken Broth (25%), Courgette, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Tomato, Seaweed, Lucerne, Green Lipped Mussel Extract, Parsley, Celery, Chicory Root, Turmeric, Aniseed, Green Tea, Minerals

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

93.4 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

6.5%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

Moisture

79%

Dry weight

Protein

42.9%

Fat

31%

Fibre

7.6%

Ash

9.5%

Carbs

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

100%

Pricing & size