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Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Dry Adult: Beef with Vegetables review

Name: Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Dry Adult: Beef with Vegetables
Brand: Pets at Home

28.7/100Poor

DryAdult

Flavour

The shop's own everyday kibble, in beef and chicken versions built the same way, and both sit in our Poor band. That reflects how quiet the label is about its contents more than anything wrong in the bowl. For an adult dog with no particular dietary demands it is a straightforward complete food, sold wherever you buy the lead and the treats.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs from toy breeds up to large ones, all from one bag
A plain complete kibble without a long list of extras
Two dogs, one wanting beef and the other chicken
A quieter middle age: 330 kcal per 100 grams against the 357 typical of adult dry food

Worth watching

The grain is never named, so wheat or maize cannot be ruled out
Only 4% of the meat is named; the rest of the 22% could be any land animal
Carbohydrate at an estimated 55.4% of dry matter against the 46.2% typical; some dogs suit a meatier plate

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

How this scores

How we score

28.7/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyAverage

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size up to large. Calcium works out at 2.17% of dry matter, fine for a grown dog but higher than a growing large breed wants.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 28.7
Chicken 28.7

All two Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The result is mostly a reading of what the label declines to say, with four umbrella terms our scoring cannot give credit for; plenty of dogs eat this happily for years.

What's in it

CerealsThe biggest single part of the recipe, with no grain named.
Meat and animal derivatives22%Any part of any warm-blooded land animal.
Beef4%The named share, and the meat on the front of the bag.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Oils and fatsPoultry fat, tallow or a vegetable oil would all fit.
Vegetables: dried peas1.3%A garnish, printed with its fresh equivalent.
Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E and methionine, with zinc as the oxide, which dogs absorb less readily than a chelate.

The unnamed rest of the meat means this cannot rule chicken out with any confidence.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives (22% including 4% Beef), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin, Oils and Fats, Vegetables (1.3% Dried Peas, equivalent to 4% Peas), Minerals.

Against the range

Named meat: 4% beef; 4% chicken in the other recipe.
Analysis: Protein 23.9%, fat 7.6% of dry matter; Identical.

The version to reach for if chicken has caused trouble before.

Both recipes follow one blueprint. Cereals lead, then meat and animal derivatives at 22%, of which only 4% is named as the meat on the front of the bag. Derivatives of vegetable origin and oils and fats are umbrella terms too, so the grain, the rest of the meat and the fat source can all change between batches. Peas are the only vegetable with a number, and the label prints the fresh equivalent beside it.

The analysis is the same in both: protein at 23.9% of dry matter, fat at 7.6% and estimated carbohydrate at 55.4%. Only the named 4% differs.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

330 kcal/100g

Protein

22%

Fat

Fibre

4.5%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.9%

Fat

7.6%

Fibre

4.9%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

55.4%

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

27.4%

Carbs

59.9%

Veg

4.5%

Oils

5.8%

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size