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Beta Puppy: With Turkey And Lamb review

Name: Beta Puppy: With Turkey And Lamb
Brand: Beta

54/100Good

DryPuppy

Flavour

A plain cereal-based growth kibble in two recipes, both in our Good band. Energy is printed at 375 kcal per 100g, right on the mark for a puppy food, which makes portions easy to set. What is missing is a calcium figure, and these bags are sold for giant breeds as well as toys.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Pups of any size, toy to giant, on either recipe
Homes that feed a cereal kibble happily
Owners who like the daily amount easy to judge from a declared energy figure
A prebiotic in the bowl: dried chicory root at 1% on both lists
Zinc at 110 mg/kg and iron at 83 mg/kg among the trace minerals printed in full

Worth watching

No calcium figure on either bag. Owners of big pups should ask Beta for it
Animal fats and digest with no species named, which leaves a strict exclusion diet nothing to hold on to
Wheat, corn and soya meal, for a pup that has struggled with cereal or soya
Carbohydrate in the low forties of dry matter, over the 39.0% a puppy kibble typically carries

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

How this scores

How we score

54/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, giants included. For a large or giant pup, ask the maker for the calcium level before you open the bag.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

With Turkey 54.0
With Chicken 51.5

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The two finish close together, with turkey and lamb the narrow pick, and neither does anything badly or anything special.

What's in it

Turkey meal20%
Wheat, corn
Animal fatsSpecies not named.
Soya mealAhead of the rice here, so more of the protein is plant.
Lamb meal7%A red meat that some pups prefer.
Rice, wheat middlings
Dried beet pulp
DigestPalatability coating with no species named.
Dried chicory root, minerals, fish oil1%Inulin from the chicory, omega 3 from the fish oil.
Dried carrot, spinach, parsley0.07% each

The same dosed panel of iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, with vitamin A printed slightly lower, plus antioxidants.

No calcium figure on the label, a gap for any pup that will grow large.

Two meats, turkey and lamb, so a pup eats two species here.

Named ingredients

Turkey meal (20%), Wheat*, Corn*, Animal fats, Soya meal, Lamb meal (7%), Rice*, Wheat middlings*, Dried beet pulp, Digest, Dried chicory root*1 (1%), Minerals, Fish oil, Dried carrot* (0.07%), Dried spinach* (0.07%), Dried parsley* (0.07%), *Natural ingredients, 1natural prebiotic

Against the range

Meat: Turkey meal 20%, lamb meal 7%; Chicken meal 27% in the other.
Soya meal: Ahead of the rice; Behind the rice in the chicken.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 42.9%; 43.4% in the chicken.
Ash, dry matter: 8.2%; 7.7% in the chicken.

The narrow pick of the two on our scoring, for a pup that takes to red meat.

Both bags open with a dried meat meal, so the printed share is close to what reaches the kibble. Behind it sit wheat, corn, rice and wheat middlings, with soya meal carrying part of the protein. Protein reads 28.0% and fat 14.0% on both.

The animal fats and the digest coating name no species on either list, and fish oil supplies the omega 3. Chicory root at 1% is shared, and so is a trace mineral panel dosed in print. Neither bag declares calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

375 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

30.8%

Fat

15.4%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

42.9%

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

28.4%

Carbs

59.1%

Veg

1.1%

Oils

6.5%

Other

4.9%

Pricing & size