Aatu For Puppies Dry review

Aatu For Puppies sits in our Excellent band, a band above the typical puppy dry food, which lands in our Good band. The gap is earned where a growth label should earn it: a large declared fish content, a printed calcium level inside the growth range, and carbohydrate well below what the category usually carries. Protein and processing and nutritional balance both read Excellent, and value sits with them at Excellent. Transparency reads Outstanding.

Ingredients, as declared: Salmon (68%), Dried Salmon (17%), Sweet Potato, Apple, Chickpeas, Peas, Minerals, Prebiotic MOS, Prebiotic FOS, Tapioca, Chicory, Lucerne, Cranberry, Pear, Blueberry, Mulberry, Orange, Bilberry, Cowberry, Carrot, Tomato, Parsley, Peppermint, Spirulina, Seaweed, Oregano, Sage, Marjoram, Thyme, Chamomile, Rosehip, Stinging Nettle, Yucca, Marigold, Aniseed, Fenugreek, Cinnamon

Salmon carries the whole animal side, 68% fresh and 17% dried. The oven takes the water out of the fresh fish, so the dried share pulls more of the finished kibble's weight than its position on the list suggests. Between them the pair leave this a genuinely fish-first food, with protein converting to 37.8% of dry matter.

Because no other animal appears anywhere on the list, the recipe can hold a single-protein line for a pup being steered away from land meats. Salmon is an oily fish, so the omega-3 fats a growing brain and coat want come from the fish itself rather than from a separate oil bolted on.

Calcium is the figure to check first on any growth food, oversupply being the classic mistake in big-breed rearing. Here it converts to 1.56% of dry matter, inside the range growth feeding needs with large breeds included. L-carnitine is added at 200 mg, a nutrient growth recipes often include to support lean development.

Sweet potato leads the plant side, with chickpeas, peas and tapioca behind it. No grain appears on the label, and carbohydrate converts to an estimated 29.1% of dry matter where the typical puppy dry food runs at 39.0%.

The gut package is a proper pairing. Prebiotic MOS and FOS sit unusually high on the ingredient list, and a live probiotic strain is added alongside them, the combination better puppy foods use to settle young digestion. Every trace mineral arrives in chelated form, the sort usually chosen for absorption, and every one has its dose printed.

The long garland of fruits and botanicals, chicory through to cinnamon, is the house signature and mostly decoration; everything from the cranberry down sits at trace level. The food stands on its salmon, and the analysis says it stands well.

£11.80 a kilo at its best rate, from the 5kg bag; a 1.5kg bag is also sold. Puppy portions move quickly with age and expected adult weight, so feed to the growth chart on the bag and let the waistline arbitrate.