Autarky Adult Dry Succulent Salmon review

A Good band finish puts this recipe level with the typical adult dry food. Transparency does much of the lifting, with printed minimums on the salmon, the rice and even the herb and vegetable content, and it reads Excellent accordingly. Protein and processing and nutritional balance read Average, a fair reflection of the cereal support act working underneath the fish.

Ingredients, as declared: Salmon (min 35%), Rice (min 33%), Whole oats, Maize, Chicken fat, Poultry meal, Linseed, Yeast (source of mannan oligosaccharides), Maize gluten, Alfalfa, Minerals, Peas, Unmolassed sugar beet, Seaweed, Milk thistle, Marigold, Carrot, Mint, Nettle, Yucca schidigera, Fenugreek, Rosemary, Carob pod meal, Thyme, Blackcurrant, Pomegranate, Rosehip, Spinach, Beetroot, Dandelion, Turmeric, Aniseed, Ginger, Oregano (min 0.4% herbs and 4% vegetables)

Salmon at a 35% minimum is a generous headline for a feed in this style. If it goes in fresh, much of that weight is water that leaves in cooking, which is where the poultry meal further down earns its keep, holding the finished protein at 26.1% of dry matter.

Rice at a 33% minimum, whole oats and maize form the cereal backbone. The carbohydrate estimate comes out at 49.4% of dry matter, a little past the 46.2% typical of adult dry food.

Maize gluten adds protein by a plant route that suits dogs less well than meat protein does, worth knowing even though the salmon and poultry meal do the bulk of the work.

Yeast is included as a source of mannan oligosaccharides, a prebiotic for the gut, with unmolassed sugar beet adding well behaved fibre once its sugar has been stripped out. Alfalfa and seaweed follow with their minerals.

The herbs and vegetables close the list at declared minimums of 0.4% and 4%. They are the brand's signature and a pleasant one, though the salmon and the rice remain the recipe's real story.

£3.12 a kilo, available in 2kg and 12kg bags.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out near 235 grams and £0.73 a day, taking the standard maintenance sum of 110 kcal for each kilo of metabolic bodyweight as the basis.