Beta

Beta Adult: With Chicken review

Name: Beta Adult: With Chicken
Brand: Beta

49.5/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

The turkey and lamb sits in our Good band, exactly where the typical adult dry food lands, and the chicken a step behind in Average. Each leads on a named meat meal with wheat and maize doing the heavy lifting. Middle of the road, in the most literal sense.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Easy-going adults with no history of trouble on the common grains
Owners who like the main meat declared with a percentage
Multi-dog households, on 14kg bags
Dogs whose digestion likes routine, with beet pulp and a chicory prebiotic in both

Worth watching

Animal fats and digest name no species, so an elimination diet has nothing firm to work from
Wheat and maize carry much of each recipe
Soya meal in the chicken

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

How this scores

How we score

49.5/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The guide asks 175 grams a day at 10kg and 275 at 20kg on the chicken, 280 on the turkey and lamb, so treat it as a starting point.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Turkey 60.2
With Chicken 49.5

Two recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The meat is real and declared, but the fats, the digest and much of the carbohydrate come without names or figures, and the scores follow the labels.

What's in it

Chicken meal28%Rendered and dried, so a concentrated protein source.
Wheat, cornGrain does most of the carrying.
Animal fatsNo species.
Wheat middlings, rice
DigestThe flavour coating, from unnamed animals.
Dried beet pulpStool-friendly fibre.
Soya mealPlant protein, only in this bag.
Dried chicory root1%A prebiotic.
Minerals
Dried carrot, spinach, parsley0.07% eachGarnish in the most honest sense.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc at 110 mg/kg and iron at 78 mg/kg leading the trace elements, and selenium as sodium selenite.

No moisture declared, so the dry matter figures assume the standard 8%.

Named ingredients

Chicken meal (28%), Wheat*, Corn*, Animal fats, Wheat middlings*, Rice*, Digest, Dried beet pulp, Soya meal, Dried chicory root*1 (1%), Minerals, Dried carrot* (0.07%), Dried spinach* (0.07%), Dried parsley* (0.07%), *Natural ingredients, 1natural prebiotic

Against the range

Meat: Chicken meal 28%; Turkey meal 22% with lamb meal 7% on the other.
Rice and soya: Both on the list; Neither on the turkey and lamb.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 47.8%; 46.2% on the turkey and lamb.

The one with the 2kg bag, a step behind its sibling on our scoring.

Both bags lead with a named meat meal, chicken at 28% or turkey at 22% with lamb at 7%, then wheat, maize and wheat middlings. Animal fats and digest name no species, and dried beet pulp and chicory root at 1% sit in both.

Protein is declared at 26% on each. Carbohydrate converts to 47.8% of dry matter on the chicken and 46.2% on the turkey and lamb, right around the typical adult dry food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

374 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

13%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

6.5%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.1%

Carbs

47.8%

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

31.2%

Carbs

60.2%

Veg

1.1%

Oils

5.8%

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size