Mac's

Mac's Complete Dry: With Chicken & Veg review

Name: Mac's Complete Dry: With Chicken & Veg
Brand: Mac's

23/100Poor

DryAdult

Flavour

A plain everyday kibble in one big sack, with a beef bag and a chicken bag on the same recipe. Cereals open the list and the named meat is a minimum of 4% inside a wider derivatives entry. It sits in our Poor band, a verdict on how little the label names, and the food is still complete with a dosed mineral panel.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Multi-dog homes buying one 15kg sack at a time
A dog that gains weight easily: fat is 8.0% and energy runs low
A named meat on the front, beef or chicken
Dogs already settled on a cereal-based kibble

Worth watching

Only the named 4% tied to a species, so no use for an elimination plan
Cereals with no grain named
Estimated carbohydrate of 56.0% of dry matter against the 46.2% typical

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

How this scores

How we score

23/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyPoor

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Moisture is not declared, so weigh portions from the label's table and let the waistline decide.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Beef 23.0
With Chicken 23.0

All two Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The Poor reading is about a label that names very little; it says nothing against a dog doing well on this food.

What's in it

CerealsOne word covering every grain there is.
Meat and animal derivatives (chicken)min 4% chickenOnly the chicken is pinned to a species.
Oils and fats
Derivatives of vegetable originA category, free to change batch by batch.
Vegetables (peas)min 4% peasFibre and some micronutrients.
Minerals
Yeasts0.08%A token amount.

More generous than the list suggests: zinc as both oxide and chelate, with manganese, copper, iodine and selenium each dosed.

Colorants are declared, from a mineral source; colour in a kibble is for the owner's eye.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives (min 4% chicken), Oils and Fats, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin, Vegetables (min 4% peas), Minerals, Yeasts (0.08%).

Against the range

Named meat: Chicken, min 4%; Beef, min 4%, in the other bag
Analysis: Protein 21%, fat 8%; Identical

The milder of the two, though a poultry-sensitive dog is better on the beef.

Two bags on one recipe. Cereals lead, then meat and animal derivatives with the named meat at a minimum of 4%, then oils and fats, derivatives of vegetable origin and vegetables with peas at a minimum of 4%. Only the named meat and peas can be pinned down.

Moisture and calcium are not declared, so the dry matter figures assume 8%. Fat is low at 8.0%, and the trace mineral panel is dosed in print.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

321.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

56%

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

28.2%

Carbs

55.4%

Veg

4.7%

Oils

9.2%

Other

2.6%

Pricing & size