Pets at Home

Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Mature Dry review

Name: Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Mature Dry
Brand: Pets at Home

27.8/100Poor

DryAdultSenior

The shop's everyday kibble adjusted for older dogs, with the fat dialled back and energy a little below a young adult's bowl. It sits in our Poor band because the label names almost none of its own ingredients. For a settled senior in good health it is still an easy bowl to fill.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs slowing down. Energy is 326 kcal per 100 grams, where 357 is typical of adult dry food
A mature dog and a younger adult sharing one bag, since the label covers both
Owners who want a familiar kibble from a shop they can walk into on a Sunday
Dogs that eat chicken happily

Worth watching

Cereals lead the list with the grain unnamed, so it cannot anchor an exclusion diet
Only 4% of the 23% meat entry is named as chicken
Carbohydrate is the largest part of the recipe, which makes keeping an older dog lean harder

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

How this scores

How we score

27.8/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyAverage

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors from toy to large. An older dog visibly losing condition will want more protein than this from somewhere, so watch the waistline and the muscle over the first weeks.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Mature Dry 27.8

All one Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

The analysis is complete and unremarkable; the band comes from an ingredients panel made almost entirely of categories.

What's in it

CerealsFirst on the list and a category, not a named crop.
Meat and animal derivatives, including chicken23%, chicken 4%The named chicken gives the flavour; the rest is whatever land-animal parts the mill has to hand.
Derivatives of vegetable originJust as broad: leftovers from cereals, vegetables, pulses or oilseed.
Dried peas1.3%Equivalent to 4% peas before drying, and the only vegetable.
Oils and fatsUnnamed.
Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with methionine, and trace minerals dosed in print, zinc as the oxide and selenium as sodium selenite, the plainer forms.

Moisture is declared at 0.8%, where a kibble usually holds about 8%, so treat the dry matter figures as approximate.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat and Animal Derivatives (23% including 4% Chicken), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin, Vegetables (1.3% Dried Peas equivalent to 4% Peas), Oils and Fats, Minerals

Against the range

One recipe, led by cereals, with chicken a named 4% inside a 23% meat and animal derivatives entry. Fat is declared at 6.5% and energy at 326 kcal per 100 grams. The added panel is dosed in print.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

326 kcal/100g

Protein

22%

Fat

6.5%

Fibre

4.5%

Ash

Moisture

0.8%

Dry weight

Protein

22.2%

Fat

6.6%

Fibre

4.5%

Ash

8.1%

Carbs

58.6%

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

27.3%

Carbs

59.7%

Veg

6.9%

Oils

3.7%

Other

2.4%

Pricing & size