Harringtons

Harringtons Dry Adult: Rich In Chicken & Rice review

Name: Harringtons Dry Adult: Rich In Chicken & Rice
Brand: Harringtons

51.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

One recipe in five coats, and an honest everyday adult food. The construction never changes: 28% meat and meat meals on a cereal base, with only 7% carrying the name on the front. That makes the range easy to rotate through, since a settled stomach has nothing new to cope with beyond the named meat.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Several dogs fed from one bin. All five share a single construction
Owners who swap flavours often and want a settled stomach to stay settled
Steady adult dogs. The feeding guide runs from toy to giant
Dogs that get on well with cereals: maize, barley, oats and rice

Worth watching

Freshly prepared chicken at 4% and chicken fat at 3% are in every bag. There is no chicken-free option
Salmon oil is in the omega blend throughout, so no bag is fish free

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

How this scores

How we score

51.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Written for adults of every size. Check your dog is fine with chicken and fish first: both are in every bag, whatever meat is on the front.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Rich In Salmon 52.3
Rich In Turkey 52.2
Rich In Beef 51.5
Rich In Chicken 51.2
Rich In Lamb 51.2

All five Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Five bags with one construction score almost as one, and the reading is a fair account of an ordinary adult food made tidily.

What's in it

Chicken and meat meals28%7% dried chicken. With the 4% freshly prepared chicken it is one bird throughout; the rest names no animal.
Maize, barleyThe base. Maize holds the kibble together, and barley cooks down without trouble.
Rice5.6%
Oats10%Soluble fibre and a good spread of micronutrients.
Chicken fat3%On every bag, whatever the front says.
Omega blend: salmon oil, vegetable oil, linseed1.8%Salmon oil gives marine omega 3 directly. Vegetable oil names no plant.
Minerals
Seaweed, FOS, yucca extract1000mg/kg, 1000mg/kg, 100mg/kgIodine, a prebiotic, and yucca to soften what comes out the other end.

Added per kilo: vitamin A 15,000iu, vitamin D3 1500iu, vitamin E 150mg, zinc 75mg, iron and manganese 50mg each, copper 5mg, iodine 0.5mg, selenium 0.1mg. Sulphate and oxide forms.

Named ingredients

Chicken and Meat Meals 28% (Dried Chicken 7% & Freshly Prepared Chicken 4%), Maize, Barley, Rice (5.6%), Oats (10%), Chicken Fat (3%), Omega Blend (Salmon Oil, Vegetable oil & Linseed 1.8%), Minerals, Seaweed (1000mg/kg), FOS (1000mg/kg), Yucca Extract (100mg/kg)

Against the range

Named meat: 7% dried chicken; A different animal on the rest
Protein, dry matter: 22.8%; 23.9% on the Beef
Fat: 11.0%; 10.0% on the Salmon

The one bag where the named meat and the background meat are the same bird.

Every bag declares 28% meat and meat meals: 7% is the dried meat named on the front and 4% is freshly prepared chicken, and the rest names no animal. Chicken fat at 3% and an omega blend with salmon oil run through all five. The base is maize and barley with oats and rice, except the Salmon, which swaps rice for potato.

Protein converts to between 22.8% and 23.9% of dry matter, and carbohydrate to roughly 53%, over the 46.2% typical of adult dry food. No label gives a calcium figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

357 kcal/100g

Protein

21%

Fat

11%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

12%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

53.3%

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

37.4%

Carbs

52.1%

Veg

2.4%

Oils

Other

5.2%

Pricing & size