Bakers, owned by Purina, 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 and flavourings.
They also spend a phenomenal amount on marketing and advertising, which might explain why it is a lot more expensive than it really should be.
Purina are huge suppliers of Soya, and these recipes, based on unamed cereals and meat/animal derivatives do not have much to recommend them, unless your dog won't eat anything else!
Consider that the "Country Vegetables" in the product title are in fact 4% of the product.
Think of the doggy equivalent of certain fast food outlets!
Although it sells well, this offering from Purina, one of the US biggest feed suppliers has little to offer in terms of ingredients or value for money, there are cheaper alternatives at the 'bargain basement' end of the market!
Expect to pay £21 for a 14kg sack
The star rating is based not just on quality of ingredients, but if the food offers value for money!
Cereals (wholegrains 54%), Meat and animal derivatives (15%* in the chunk), Derivatives of vegetable origin, Oils and fats, Vegetable protein extracts, Glycerol, Minerals, Vegetables (1% dried chicory root (natural ingredient), clover and coloured disk: 0,6% dried vegetables, equivalent to 4% vegetables), Propylene glycol.*equivalent to 30% rehydrated meat and animal derivatives, with min, 4% beef.
Nutritional Additives: IU/kg:Vit A: 17 500;Vit D3: 1020;Vit E: 83mg/kg :Ferrous sulphate monohydrate: 222;Calcium iodate anhydrous: 2.78;Cupric sulphate pentahydrate: 32;Manganous sulphate monohydrate: 17;Zinc sulphate monohydrate: 358;Sodium selenite: 0.39;With colourants and antioxidants..
Protein 21%, Fat 10%
Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives (15%*), Vegetable Protein Extracts, Glycerol, Oils and fats, Propylene glycol, Minerals, Derivatives of vegetable origin.* equivalent to 30% rehydrated meat and animal derivatives, with min. 4% chicken.
Nutritional Additives: IU/kg: Vit A: 17 500; Vit D3: 1020; Vit E: 83mg/kg :Ferrous sulphate monohydrate: 222;Calcium iodate anhydrous: 2.78;Cupric sulphate pentahydrate: 32;Manganous sulphate monohydrate: 17;Zinc sulphate monohydrate: 358;Sodium selenite: 0.39;With antioxidants.
Protein 21%, Fat 10%,