Product review - Bakers Dog Food
 Bakers
is one of the best selling complete dog foods in the UK, which must
mean that it suits a lot of dogs, and yet it could never be listed
in the top ten most natural foods on the pet shop shelves, containing
as it does un-named cereals, meat derivatives, sugars, vegetable
derivatives, colours, antioxidants and preservatives. Meat content
is the absolute legal minimum, ditto anything else that is named
in the product title.
They also spend a lot on marketing, which might explain why it
is not a cheap food. With the bare minimum of meat content to enable
them to even declare a source of meat protein, it's the sort of
food that you would think retails at around £12 for 15kg but
in fact you're going to pay around £28.
In fact, it begs to be compared with a similar cheap and a more
natural product, and when you do that it seems strange that it is
so popular - possibly this is because of its strong presence in
supermarkets and some very professional marketing from owners Purina
(who in the US are a huge company majoring in soya production)
Product Comparison
Gilpa Dr John Gold |
Bakers Beef & Country
Vegetables |
Ingredients: Cereals, meat
& animal derivatives (min 14% chicken), yeasts, milk
& milk derivatives, oils & fats, minerals. WIth
EC permitted antioxidants
|
Cereals (minimum 4% rice in the green and
orange kernels), Meat and animal derivatives (Minimum 4%
fresh meat in the soft moist kernel, minimum 4% lamb in
the natural and brown kernels), Vegetable protein extracts,
Oils and fats, Derivatives of vegetable origin (0.5% beet
pulp in the natural and brown kernels), Various sugars,
Minerals, Vegetables (minimum 4% vegetables in the green
and orange kernels). With antioxidants, coloured with and
preserved with EC additives. |
15kg
bag - around £10.49
from GJW
Titmuss |
15kg bag -
around £28.99 |
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| Bakers Complete food for puppies and junior
dogs
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Ingredients
Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives (Minimum 4% fresh meat
in the soft moist kernel, minimum 4% beef in the brown kernel),
Vegetable protein extracts, Oils and fats, Various sugars,
Derivatives of vegetable origin, Minerals, Vegetables (minimum
4% vegetables in the green and yellow kernels). With antioxidants,
coloured with and preserved with EC additives.
Protein 28%, Fat 12%,
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Bakers Lamb & Rice & Country Vegetables
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Ingredients
Cereals (minimum 4% rice in the green and orange kernels),
Meat and animal derivatives (Minimum 4% fresh meat in the
soft moist kernel, minimum 4% lamb in the natural and brown
kernels), Vegetable protein extracts, Oils and fats, Derivatives
of vegetable origin (0.5% beet pulp in the natural and brown
kernels), Various sugars, Minerals, Vegetables (minimum 4%
vegetables in the green and orange kernels). With antioxidants,
coloured with and preserved with EC additives.
Protein 23%, Fat 10%,
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| Bakers Beef & Country Vegetables
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Ingredients
Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives (Minimum 4% fresh meat
in the soft moist kernel, minimum 4% beef in the natural and
brown kernels), Vegetable protein extracts, Oils and fats,
Derivatives of vegetable origin (0.5% beet pulp in the natural
and brown kernels), Various sugars, Minerals, Vegetables (minimum
4% vegetables in the green and yellow kernels). With antioxidants,
coloured with and preserved with EC additives.
Protein 23%, Fat 10%,
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Bakers Rabbit & Duck & Select Vegetables
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Ingredients
Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives (Minimum 4% fresh meat
in the soft moist kernel, minimum 4% duck and minimum 4% rabbit
in the red and brown kernels), Vegetable protein extracts,
Oils and fats, Derivatives of vegetable origin (0.5% beet
pulp in the red and brown kernels), Various sugars, Minerals,
Vegetables (minimum 4% vegetables in the green and yellow
kernels). With antioxidants, coloured with and preserved with
EC additives.
Protein 23%, Fat 10%,
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Bakers Bacon & Liver Flavour with Country Vegetables
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Ingredients
Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives (Minimum 4% fresh meat
in the soft moist kernel), Vegetable protein extracts, Oils
and fats, Derivatives of vegetable origin (0.5% beet pulp
in the natural and brown kernels), Various sugars, Minerals,
Vegetables (minimum 4% vegetables in the green and yellow
kernels). With antioxidants, coloured with and preserved with
EC additives.
Protein 23%, Fat 10%
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Bakers Gravy Coated Recipe with Beef & Vegetables
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Ingredients
Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives (minimum 4% fresh meat
in the soft moist kernel, minimum 4% beef in the red and brown
kernels), Vegetable protein extracts, Oils and fats, Derivatives
of vegetable origin , Various sugars, Minerals, Vegetables
(minimum 4% vegetables in the green and orange kernel). Contains
EC permitted colourants, antioxidants and preservatives.
Protein 23%, Fat 11%
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So there you have it, a standard dog food product which sells well
despite the fact that it fails to tick almost any of the boxes that
a lot of dog owners would consider necessary for a quality food
selling at around £22 for a 15kg bag.
What more can we say?
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