Iams

Iams Advanced Nutrition Adult Large Breed: With Fresh Chicken review

Name: Iams Advanced Nutrition Adult Large Breed: With Fresh Chicken
Brand: Iams

57.4/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A widely stocked everyday kibble for big adult dogs, with both recipes in our Good band and next to nothing between them. Dried chicken and turkey lead each bag. The difference is only the finish: fresh chicken in one, a little lamb in the other.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large breed adults that get on with poultry
Owners who want portions spelled out, from 25kg dogs to 90kg dogs
Dogs that digest cereal happily
Homes keeping an eye on tartar

Worth watching

Only 4% lamb in the lamb bag, with chicken and turkey still leading
Pork fat in both recipes

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

How this scores

How we score

57.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large adult dogs. Use scales rather than your eye on the label table, and let the waistline decide the rest.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Fresh Chicken 57.4
With Lamb 57.0

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Nothing alarming holds either back; barley and maize push the carbohydrate past the dry-food norm.

What's in it

Dried chicken and turkey22% (chicken 13%)The workhorse: its water is gone, so it arrives close to as written.
Barley, maize, maize flourCarry the starch. Barley is a gluten grain.
Fresh chicken10%Reads generously but cooks down to a fraction of that.
Pork fatA named animal fat, and pork is a meat many dogs have barely met.
Dried beet pulp2.5%Firm stools.
Chicken gravy
Mineralssodium hexametaphosphate 0.35%Softens tartar as the kibble is chewed.
Linseed, brewer's dried yeastPlant omega 3 and B vitamins.
Fructooligosaccharides0.2%

Vitamins A, D3 and E with trace minerals as standard sulphates and oxides, all printed per kilo.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume a standard 8%.

Named ingredients

Dried chicken and turkey 22% (including chicken 13%), barley, maize, fresh chicken (10%), maize flour, pork fat, dried beet pulp (2.5%), chicken gravy, minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.35%), linseed, fructooligosaccharides (0.2%), brewer's dried yeast.

Against the range

Fresh chicken: 10%; None in the lamb bag
Dried chicken and turkey: 22%; 24% in the lamb
Lamb: None; 4% in the lamb bag
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 51.8%; 51.6% in the lamb

The simpler starting point of the two, with poultry and the pork fat as its only animals.

Two large-breed kibbles built the same way: dried chicken and turkey at the front, barley and maize carrying the starch, then pork fat, beet pulp and a mineral mix with a tartar softener. One finishes with 10% fresh chicken, the other with 4% lamb.

Protein converts to 25.0% of dry matter in both and energy is 372 kcal per 100 grams, so swapping needs no change to the scoop. Moisture is not declared.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

372 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

13%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

5.9%

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

6.4%

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

36.6%

Carbs

56.4%

Oils

3.6%

Other

3.3%

Pricing & size