Morrisons

Morrisons Premium Natural Dry Adult: Chicken review

Name: Morrisons Premium Natural Dry Adult: Chicken
Brand: Morrisons

61.3/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A grain-free supermarket kibble in chicken and lamb, both in our Good band. The meat is named and the dried and fresh shares are given separately, which is more than many labels manage. Sweet potato does the starch work, and the tail is short enough to read in one go.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept off grain, with no cereal on either list
Owners who want the meat split shown: 22% chicken meal and 8% freshly prepared in the chicken
A single-animal diet, since every animal entry in the chicken recipe is chicken
Owners who read labels properly. Both lists are short and every line is easy to look up

Worth watching

Chicken fat and gravy in the lamb recipe
A moderate 30% meat, so a fair amount of the bowl is plant
Potato protein in the lamb, behind the meat

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

How this scores

How we score

61.3/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. If chicken is the suspect, the lamb will not get you round it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 61.3
Lamb 59.3

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Little separates the two, and plain honesty in the label earns most of the result.

What's in it

Chicken: chicken meal, freshly prepared chicken30% (22% and 8%)Mostly meal, with the water already out, so more of the headline reaches the kibble.
Sweet potato30%The grain-free base.
Potato, dried peas
Chicken fatKeeps the whole animal side to one species.
Beet pulp
Whole linseed2%Plant omega 3. Give a coat weeks to answer, not days.
Chicken gravy, minerals
Yeast products0.2%A source of prebiotic MOS.
Dried blueberry, dried cranberry, marigold meal, turmeric, dried spearmintA flourish; the recipe stands without them.

A full, dosed panel: vitamins A, D3 and E with iodine, selenium, copper, iron, manganese and zinc, preserved with natural tocopherols.

Named ingredients

Chicken (30%) (Chicken Meal 22%, Freshly Prepared Chicken* 8%), Sweet Potato* (30%), Potato*, Dried Peas*, Chicken Fat*, Beet Pulp*, Whole Linseed* (2%), Chicken Gravy, Minerals, Yeast Products (0.2%, as a Source of Prebiotic MOS), Dried Blueberry*, Dried Cranberry*, Marigold Meal*, Turmeric*, Dried Spearmint, *Natural Ingredients

Against the range

Meat split: 22% meal, 8% fresh; The lamb is 18% meal, 12% fresh.
Other animals on the label: None; fat and gravy are chicken; The lamb also carries chicken fat and gravy.
Protein, dry matter: 25.5%; 25.0% on the lamb.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.52%; 2.17% on the lamb.

The cleaner of the two for single-animal feeding.

Both recipes declare 30% of their named meat and split it into meal and freshly prepared shares. Sweet potato at 30% and potato carry the starch with no cereal, dried peas and beet pulp finish the plant side, and both use chicken fat and chicken gravy. Whole linseed at 2% supplies omega 3.

Neither label declares moisture, so the dry matter figures assume 8%. Estimated carbohydrate is 48.9% of dry matter on the chicken and 46.7% on the lamb, close to the 46.2% typical of adult dry food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

354.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

23.5%

Fat

13.5%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

25.5%

Fat

14.7%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

48.9%

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

32.7%

Carbs

59.4%

Oils

3.2%

Other

4.6%

Pricing & size