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Gent, Belgium 
11This food is suitable for the following breed sizes:
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In general, unless your dog has health issues, you probably won't have to worry about these figures. Click here for more information
Mixing bowl composition
This is the ingredients list as printed on the packaging or manufacturer's website.
Think of the 'mixing bowl' composition like a recipe - all the ingredients you would need to put in a 'mixing bowl' in order to make the food.
Ingredients have to be listed in descending order of their weight so the higher it appears, the more there is.
Highlighted ingredients
Ingredients that we believe to be controversial or inferior are highlighted in yellow with particularly low grade, highly contentious or excessively vague ingredients in red.
As fed composition
While the 'mixing bowl' composition is useful for knowing what went into the food, it doesn't always reflect what your dog is actually eating. This is because the processes that turn the ingredients into the finished pet food can significantly alter the relative weights of the ingredients.
For this reason we've calculated the approximate 'as fed' percentages for the main ingredient categories in the finished product.
Please note that these figures are very approximate. They are estimates based on the information provided by the manufacturer in the ingredients list so the clearer the terminology and the more percentages they provide, the more accurate our estimates will be. Wherever information is lacking, we always assume the worst.
Ingredient categories
◉ Meat ingredients: includes all meat and fish ingredients except isolated fats/oils.
◉Added oils and fats: includes all isolated oil and fat ingredients.
◉ Carb-rich ingredients: includes all ingredients derived from grains, pseudo-grains, potatoes and other starchy root vegetables, sweet potato and legumes (except whole peas which are categorised under fruit and veg) except for isolated protein and extracted oils. Also includes fibre supplements.
◉ Fruit and veg: includes all whole vegetables and fruits.
◉ Other: all other ingredients. Mostly made up by nutritional supplements and additives.
For more information on any ingredient, please take a look at our Dog Food Ingredient Glossary
The dry matter level of a nutrient is the percentage there would be in the food if all of the water was removed.
With water taken out of the equation, these figures allow the nutrient levels of foods of different types (like wet and dry) to be compared on an even playing field.
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53 out of 100 - Average
Our unique product ratings are calculated based on a number of characteristics including the quality and quantity of the stated ingredients, certain nutritional and technological additives and the processing methods used to create the food. They are designed to indicate how beneficial we think a food is likely to be for the majority of dogs when fed on a daily basis for an extended period. Click here for more information
Country of origin: United Kingdom
A technological additive is any substance added to a pet food "for a technological purpose and which favourably affects the characteristics of feed".
The most common categories of technological additives include preservatives and antioxidants, gelling agents and thickeners and probiotics.
While the primary effects of technoloical additives are certainly 'favourable' (increased shelf life in the case of preservatives & antioxidants, better food texture and consistency in the case of gelling agents and thickeners etc.) some have been linked to health problems in pets and should be treated with caution.
Unfortunately, many technological additives do not have to be declared by the manufacturer so just because they do not appear on the label does not necessarily mean they are not in the food. If in doubt, ask the manufacturer directly exactly what technological additives their foods contain.
Emma Bone• 2 years ago
This made all 10 of my dogs extremely thirsty, they peed alone the house which is unlike them. Poop was awful.
Sarah Gleave• 7 years ago
I've just recently switched on to this from Arden Grange. I know that Arden Granges price accounts for a rep and a flash car as he pops in to see me sometimes. I don't have a problem with AG but I wanted something cheaper, so I hunted around and tried this. I know its cereal based but my dogs actually do well on this, I have 10 and all are solid, so 5 stars from me.
kedecama• 10 years ago
I think you have got mature lite ingredients and normal autarky mixed up, they are not the same, on your list if you compare they are identical ingredients when in fact the are not
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kedecama• 10 years ago
Hi Kedecama and thanks for your patience with the updates. I have now updated the entire Autarky range with data sent directly from the manufacturer. You can find the new Mature/Lite Salmon page here: http://www.whichdogfood.co....
kedecama• 10 years ago
Quick answer thanks, here is their list of ingredients as cut and pasted from the email they have sent me, for chicken firstMaize, chicken meal (16%), rice (5%), unmolassed beet pulp, alfalfa, peas, full fat linseed, chicken fat, prairie meal, yeast, carrot, glucosamine, milk thistle, marigold, nettle, yucca, blackcurrant, kale, beetroot, rosemary, rosehip, seaweed, thyme, peppermint, fennel, paprika, turmeric, dandelion, ginger, fenugreek, oregano & aloe vera (0.4% herbs, 4% vegetables).Here is the salmonIngredients:
Salmon (30%), Rice (16%), Oats, Maize, Unmolassed Beet Pulp, Chicken Meal, Potato, Peas, Alfalfa, Dicalcium Phosphate, Full Fat Linseed, Yeast, Carrot, Charcoal, Glucosamine, Milk Thistle, Seaweed, Nettle, Marigold, Blackcurrant Extract, Yucca Extract, Thyme, Beetroot, Tomato, Peppermint, Fennel, Paprika, Turmeric, Dandelion, Ginger, Fenugreek, Rosemary Extract, Oregano, Aloe Vera (min 0.4% herbs, min 4% vegetables)The chicken appears different ken
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kedecama• 10 years ago
That is very strange. There seems to be one ingredients list on the Autarky website, another on the Dodson & Horrell website (which is the one we use here) and another in their email to you. I will see if I can get to the bottom of it.
kedecama
All About Dog Food• 10 years ago
I pointed that out to them when I emailed them had reply back from, Laura Meszaros
LMeszaros@dodsonandhorrell.com
Ken
kedecama
All About Dog Food• 10 years ago
Any news on the discrepancy with the ingredients
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kedecama• 10 years ago
Sorry about the delay. Yes, got a full datasheet from them so I will update the listings asap. Watch this space.
kedecama• 10 years ago
Spoke with company today who told me the salmon is a wet weight percentage, and the chicken is a dry weight percentage.
Was wondering:-
What dry weight percentage of salmon would be?
Will knowing that cause them to have a differing score?
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kedecama• 10 years ago
Hi Kedecama and thanks for posting. Yes indeed, in dry foods where just the meat source is given (without 'meal', 'dry', 'dried', 'dehydrated' etc) it generally refers to fresh meat and so the percentage will include a large proportion of water. Of course, this percentage is the amount at the start of processing and since most of the water is lost during the production of dry foods, the percentage remaining in the finished product will be much less - typically around a third of the amount stated. That means that the dry weight percentage of salmon in the salmon variety is probably closer to 10%.
All of our ratings automatically take dry/wet meat weights into account.
kedecama
All About Dog Food• 10 years ago
But surely in those circumstances where the chicken here is dry 26% it's better than as your saying 10% dry salmon! remainder of ingredients are the same?
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kedecama• 10 years ago
Well, the salmon variety also contains an unspecified amount of chicken meal but even with that the chicken variety does indeed score much better in terms of meat. It does however also contain considerably more maize (the first ingredient plus the prairie meal further down) than the salmon variety which means both end up with the same rating of 3.5 out of 5.