McIntyres

McIntyres Adult Dry: Chicken review

Name: McIntyres Adult Dry: Chicken
Brand: McIntyres

28/100Poor

DryAdult

Flavour

A plain, everyday kibble written in umbrella terms, with beef or chicken named at 4%. Both bags land in our Poor band, and the reason is what the label declines to name. The mineral panel is the strongest thing on it, with a printed dose against every entry.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Any adult dog, toy through to giant
A settled dog with no history of reacting to anything
Dogs that gain weight without trying. Fat is declared at 8.0%
Two dogs with different tastes: the bags differ only in the named meat

Worth watching

Four unnamed umbrella terms, which puts an elimination plan out of reach
Only 4% is the named meat

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

How this scores

How we score

28/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyAverage

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Portions are generous because the energy runs low, so let the waistline decide within the label's wide span.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Beef 28.0
Chicken 28.0

All two Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The ingredients list has already said what the score confirms, and a settled adult dog gets exactly what the bag describes.

What's in it

CerealsCould be good rice or oats or the lowest grade fraction going that month. The label does not let you check.
Meat and animal derivativesAny fleshy part of any warm-blooded land animal. Most of the animal content sits here.
Chicken4%A flavour marker more than the bulk of the meat.
Oils and fatsNot pinned to a plant or an animal.
Derivatives of vegetable origin, vegetables
Peas4%Whole peas bring fibre and a decent spread of minerals with their starch.
Minerals, yeasts

Every mineral carries a figure, and most of the zinc comes as a chelate at 390 mg/kg, the form a dog absorbs more easily.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat And Animal Derivatives, Chicken (4%), Oils And Fats, Derivatives Of Vegetable Origin, Vegetables, Peas (4%), Minerals, Yeasts

Against the range

Named meat: Chicken, 4%; Beef, 4%, in the other bag
Vitamin E: Written out as alpha tocopherol acetate; The same ingredient, listed more briefly on the beef bag

Chicken is the meat dogs react to most often, so a dog with form there belongs on the beef bag.

The two bags are one recipe with the named meat swapped: beef or chicken at 4%, behind cereals and meat and animal derivatives. Umbrella terms take four of the top five places, so the fat, the grain and most of the animal content are never named. Peas are also declared at 4%.

The analysis is identical across both. Protein converts to 23.1% of dry matter and fat to 8.8%, and estimated carbohydrate reaches 54.9% against a typical 46.2%. Energy is estimated at 316 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

316.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

21%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.1%

Fat

8.8%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.9%

Carbs

54.9%

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

29.6%

Carbs

54.1%

Veg

4.2%

Oils

8.3%

Other

3.8%

Pricing & size