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Pro Plan PURINA PRO PLAN Small & Mini Adult 9+ Age Defence - Chicken review

DryAdultSeniorAllergies
Average

A middling dry food - fine, with clear compromises. Just 15% declared meat content, and the label keeps too much vague. Feeding it costs about £1.08 a day for a typical adult dog - the breakdown below shows exactly what that buys.

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Top 75%scores higher than 25% of rated foodsacross all 3530 foods we've scored
Averagescore bandthe dot marks where it sits among every food we've rated
£1.08per day for a 15 kg dogcheaper than 31% of dry foods
15%declared meat content

Where the points went

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

Ingredient quality
Weighted ingredient quality 57/100 across 13 ingredients (declared percentages used for 2, position estimates for the rest).
23 / 40
Label clarity
Vague category terms on the label (animal fat) - naming points withheld; percentages cover 27% of the recipe (+1.6); meat sources named (+2); variable-composition wording - fixed-formula points withheld.
3.6 / 15
Additives
Declared additives below our neutral line, weakest being hydrolysed protein (-0.8).
9.3 / 10
Red flags
Animal fat at position 12 (-6).
-6 / 0
Meat content
Declared meat content 15%.
6 / 15
Nutritional balance
Composition not fully declared - scored neutral (4/10) until the analytical constituents are published.
4 / 10
Processing
Assumed extruded kibble (standard high-heat process).
6 / 10
ODF Score
Algorithm v1.4.0 · scored July 28, 2026 · full methodology public
46 / 100

Our analysis

Breaking the 46 down: the biggest single loss is ingredient quality, where it takes 23 of a possible 40. Its strongest showing is additives at 9.3 of 10. On top of that, 6 points are deducted outright for red-flag ingredients - a penalty applied before anything else is counted, which is why the total lands where it does.

The label declares 15% meat, which is a low figure, and a declared low figure is still more honest than silence, and the ingredient list leans on vague groupings instead of naming what is actually in the bag.

At about £1.08 a day to feed a 15kg dog, the question is not whether it is cheap but whether the label justifies the price - and on our scoring, it does not.

Ingredients

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

Meat & fish

High-quality chicken 15%dried poultry proteinanimal fat

Carbs & grains

wheatrice 12%corncorn protein mealwheat gluten

Fruit & veg

dried beet pulp

Oils & fats

fish oil

Supplements & extras

mineralshydrolysed proteinyeasts
Good qualityAcceptable / watch the amountRed flagGeneric / neutralOutlined = first five on the label

Feeding & cost

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

Pack sizeRRPPer kg
3 kg--
6 kg--

How heavy is your dog?

A typical 15 kg adult dog needs about 188 g a day = £1.09 / day, £33.14 / 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 15 kg dog works out near 725 kcal).
  2. Portion: we don't have this food's calories yet, so we fall back to a rough 12.5 g per kg of dog.
  3. Cost: multiply the grams by this food's price, £5.78 / 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. Try the full feeding calculator

Nutrition

No declared analysis yet

The manufacturer's analytical constituents appear here once we've verified the label.

How we read labels

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