Scrumbles

Scrumbles Adult & Senior Chicken review

Name: Scrumbles Adult & Senior Chicken
Brand: Scrumbles

70.1/100Excellent

DryPuppyAdult

A chicken kibble that puts a number next to almost everything, and the numbers hold up. The 60% chicken headline comes with its own breakdown, 28% of it already dehydrated, so the meat claim has weight behind it. The additive panel is dosed in full, down to a named probiotic strain.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who like to read a label top to bottom and find the answers on it
Anyone who looks for the dehydrated share, printed here at 28% inside the 60% chicken
Homes with dogs of different ages, as the label covers all three life stages
An unsettled gut: a named probiotic strain, yeast MOS and yucca extract are all declared
Dogs that do well on gentle cereals, with rice at 20.3% and oats at 13.5%
Older dogs that need help holding muscle. Protein converts to 35.9% of dry matter

Worth watching

Salmon oil at 1.5% means this chicken recipe is not fish free
Copper and manganese are chelates of protein hydrolysates, so a strict one-animal elimination trial cannot rest on this label alone
No calcium figure, though the label covers puppies. A large-breed puppy owner has nothing to check growth against

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

How this scores

How we score

70.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. For a large-breed puppy, get the calcium figure from Scrumbles before you order.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Scrumbles Adult & Senior Chicken 70.1

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Substance and an open label both earn this its place: plenty of meat, a carbohydrate figure well under the typical kibble, and very little left to the imagination.

What's in it

Chicken: dehydrated chicken, freshly prepared chicken, chicken fat, chicken stock60% (28%, 26%, 4%, 2%)The dehydrated 28% is the share that counts. Its water is gone before cooking, so it goes in close to its listed weight.
Rice20.3%Sits easily on a dog's digestion once cooked.
Oats13.5%Fibre and micronutrients alongside the starch.
Dried alfalfa2.5%
Salmon oil1.5%Long chain omega 3 handed over directly. Also the reason this is not fish free.
Vitamins and minerals
Whole linseed0.7%The plant form of omega 3.
Dried carrot0.4%
Yeasts (prebiotic MOS), yucca extract, dried spearmint0.1%, 0.02%

Every trace mineral is dosed, with manganese and copper as chelates, selenium as selenised yeast, and zinc and iron in the older oxide and sulphate forms, plus a live Enterococcus faecium probiotic.

No calcium figure on a label that covers puppies, so a large-breed puppy has no growth figure to work from.

Named ingredients

60% Chicken (28% Dehydrated Chicken, 26% Freshly Prepared Chicken*, 4% Chicken Fat*, 2% Chicken Stock), 20.3% Rice*, 13.5% Oats*, 2.5% Dried Alfalfa*, 1.5% Salmon Oil*, Vitamins & Minerals, 0.7% Whole Linseed*, 0.4% Dried Carrot*, 0.1% Yeasts (source of prebiotic MOS), 0.02% Extract of Yucca Schidigera, Dried Spearmint. *natural ingredients

Against the range

One chicken kibble with a percentage beside nearly every ingredient. Chicken is declared at 60%, broken down on the label, and rice and oats carry the starch. Protein converts to 35.9% of dry matter, fat to 15.2%, and carbohydrate to an estimated 37.4%. Moisture is not declared, so those figures start from an assumed 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

377 kcal/100g

Protein

33%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Dry weight

Protein

35.9%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

37.4%

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

58%

Added water

Carbs

33.8%

Veg

2.9%

Oils

1.5%

Other

1.8%

Pricing & size