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Arden Grange Sensitive Grain Free Puppy review

A genuinely strong dry food. Just 23% declared meat content, and the label tells you exactly what is inside. Feeding it costs about 74p a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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ODF Score 80/100 Very good
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Top 34%scores higher than 66% of rated foodsacross all 3075 foods we've scored
Very goodscore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£0.74 approx.per day for a 10 kg dogcheaper than 39% of dry foods
23%declared meat content
United Kingdombrand origin

Where the points went

The full breakdown, exactly as the algorithm scored it. How our rating works

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 73/100 across 30 ingredients (declared percentages used for 5, position estimates for the rest).
29.3 / 40
Label clarity
Every ingredient individually named (+5); percentages cover 71% of the recipe (+4.3); meat sources named (+2); recipe reads as a fixed formula (+2).
13.3 / 15
Additives
No artificial colours, flavours, controversial preservatives or added sugars found.
10 / 10
Red flags
No red-flag ingredients.
0 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 41% (added up from every named meat on the label).
13.2 / 15
Nutritional balance
Estimated carbohydrate 41% dry matter (moderate); fat 16.3% DM in the healthy band; moisture not declared - 8% assumed for the dry-matter maths; fibre 2.7% DM (+2); ash 8.7% DM - sensible mineral load (+1.5); functional extras: omega-3 source, pre/probiotics, named botanicals, joint support (+2).
7.8 / 10
Processing
Assumed extruded kibble (standard high-heat process).
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.1 · scored August 19, 2026 · full methodology public
80 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 80 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 29.3 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is additives at 10 of 10.

The label declares 23% meat, which is a low figure, and a declared low figure is still more honest than silence, and the ingredient list names things individually rather than hiding them in catch-all categories.

At about 74p a day to feed a 10kg dog, the question is not whether it is cheap but whether the label justifies the price - and on our scoring, it broadly does.

Ingredients

Straight from the label, grouped by role - every ingredient is coloured by our published classification and links to its full page.

Additives (as declared on the label)
Vitamin a 21000 IU, Vitamin D3 1575 IU, Vitamin E 280 IU, Zinc (as Zinc Chelate of Amino Acid Hydrate) 105mg, Copper II (as Copper Chelate of Amino Acid Hydrate) 9.3mg, Manganese (as Manganese Chelate of Amino Acid Hydrate) 7. Antioxidant (Natural Mixed Tocopherols ).

Feeding & cost

What a bag actually costs to feed - worked out per dog, not per pack.

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
14 kg£69.99£5.00

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 10 kg adult dog needs about 148 g a day = £0.74 / day, £22.50 / month.

How we work this out
  1. Energy: an adult dog at rest needs about 95 × weight0.75 kcal a day (the FEDIAF maintenance formula - a 10 kg dog works out near 534 kcal).
  2. Portion: divide that by this food's energy density, 360 kcal/100g, to get the grams above - a denser food needs fewer grams.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £5.00 / kg, for the daily cost, then by 30.4 days for the month.

Estimates scale to your dog's weight and the food's calorie density - a denser food needs fewer grams. A rough guide; always follow the pack. This is a puppy food, but the figures above are for an adult dog at maintenance - the same reference we use on every food so costs stay comparable. A growing puppy needs roughly twice the energy for its weight, so feed to the pack, not to this. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

Declared analysis converted to a dry-matter basis, so wet and dry foods compare fairly.

Protein

31.5 % DM
Directory average: 28.2

Fat

16.3 % DM
Directory average: 14.8

Est. carbs

40.8 % DM
Directory average: 45.2

Fibre

2.7 % DM
Directory average: 3.6

Ash

8.7 % DM
Directory average: 7.9

Moisture isn't declared on this label - dry-matter figures assume 8% (typical for a dry food) and are marked estimated.

Carbohydrates are estimated: 100% minus protein, fat, fibre, ash and moisture.

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