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Applaws Puppy All Breeds: Chicken review

Name: Applaws Puppy All Breeds: Chicken
Brand: Applaws

70.3/100Excellent

DryPuppy

Excellent band, on a chicken-led growth kibble with an unusually rich analysis. Protein is declared at 38.0% and energy at 409 kcal per 100g, both towards the top of what puppy kibble offers. Chicken makes up 54% of the recipe, and pea starch and potato do the structural work with no cereal at all.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Hungry, fast-growing puppies that need a lot of food in a small bowl
Owners who want the chicken broken out: meal at 28%, fresh at 26%
Grain-free households
A digestion that could use support, from chicory FOS, yeast-wall MOS and two inactivated cultures
Gentle fibre for a puppy gut, at 2.0%

Worth watching

No calcium figure on a bag sold for all breeds, so nothing to check for a large or giant pup
Poultry fat and poultry gravy name no bird
Salmon oil puts fish in the recipe

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

70.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Check calcium with Applaws before a large or giant pup grows on it, then weigh the portion and adjust week by week.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 70.3

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

A meat-first list and a genuinely rich analysis earn the placing, with nothing propped up by a single strength.

What's in it

Chicken meal28%Already dry, so it contributes more of the finished kibble than the split implies.
Freshly prepared chicken26%Mostly water, and gives a lot of it up in cooking.
Pea starch
Poultry fatNames a category, not a bird.
Pea protein, potatoPea protein lifts the protein figure without the amino acid usefulness of the chicken.
Poultry gravyAnother unnamed bird.
Dried egg powder, dried brewer's yeastYeast for B vitamins.
Salmon oilMarine omega 3 for coat and brain development, and fish on the allergen picture.
Beet pulp, vegetable fibres, chicory, yeast wall0.35% chicoryThe gut support, thoughtfully assembled.
Seaweed, lucerne, herbs, fruit, inactivated cultures0.005% each cultureSeasoning and provenance more than nutrition.

No calcium figure on the label, and the bag is sold for all breeds, large and giant pups included.

No moisture figure printed, so the dry matter figures use the standard 8% assumption for kibble.

Named ingredients

Chicken 54% (Chicken Meal 28%, Freshly Prepared Chicken* 26%), Pea Starch*, Poultry Fat, Pea Protein, Potato, Poultry Gravy*, Dried Egg Powder*, Dried Brewer's Yeast*, Vitamins & Minerals, Salmon Oil, Dried Beet Pulp*, Vegetable Fibres*, Dried Chicory* 0.35% (a Source of Prebiotic FOS), Dried Seaweed*, Lucerne Meal*, Yeast Wall (a source of Beta-Glucans and Prebiotic MOS), Dried Tomato*, Dried Carrot*, Dried Parsley*, Dried Peppermint*, Dried Yucca Schidigera*, Dried Rosehip*, Dried Basil*, Dried Turmeric*, Cranberry Powder*, Dried Carob*, Dried Ginger*, Dried Dandelion Root*, Inactivated Lactobacillus Helveticus 0.005%, Inactivated Lacticaseibacillus Paracasei 0.005%, Dried Paprika*. *Natural Ingredients.

Against the range

Price and value

Sold in 4kg and 12kg bags.

The amount a puppy needs rises with age and with the adult size they are heading for, so no single number holds for long. Our standard energy estimate puts a 10kg pup aged 4 to 12 months at somewhere near 173 to 212 grams a day. Weigh it out, then adjust to how your pup is filling out week by week.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

409 kcal/100g

Protein

38%

Fat

20%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Dry weight

Protein

41.3%

Fat

21.7%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

25.6%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

56.2%

Added water

3.3%

Carbs

32.2%

Veg

0.6%

Oils

6.4%

Other

1.3%