Bob & Lush Adult Kibble review

Our Good band is where this food lands, the same band that holds the typical adult dry food. Transparency reads Outstanding and the other three pillars come back Average, so the label is doing more of the talking than the analysis is. The recipe earns it with a large declared meat share, complete clarity about what that meat is, and a carbohydrate load that comes in under the typical figure.

Ingredients, as declared: Fresh Duck (55%), Potatoes (24%), Peas (10%), Duck Fat (3%), Duck Stock (2%), Brewer's Yeast (1%), Beet Pulp (1%), Linseed (1%), Sunflower Oil (0.6%), Minerals, Vitamins, Yucca Schidigera Extract (0.3%), FOS (0.1%), MOS (0.1%).

Fresh duck at 55% holds the animal side to a single bird, and duck fat at 3% and duck stock at 2% back it up. Even the fat and the flavouring stay on species. That matters for elimination feeding, where a stray unnamed fat can quietly undo the whole exercise. Here there is nothing to undo: the only oils beyond the bird are linseed and sunflower, both plants.

The duck goes in fresh, and fresh meat is mostly water. Cooking drives that water off, and the finished kibble reads 27.2% protein on a dry matter basis. The estimated carbohydrate of 39.1% of dry matter sits usefully below the 46.2% typical for adult dry food.

Starch comes from potato at 24%, with peas at 10% alongside. No grain appears on the list at all, and no maize or rice under another name.

Linseed at 1% is the omega source, supplying plant-form omega 3 that a dog converts more slowly than fish oil but that keeps the recipe genuinely fish free. Brewer's yeast adds B vitamins, and the FOS and MOS pairing at the tail is there to feed the gut's friendly bacteria.

The additive panel is fuller than most. Taurine is in for the heart, L-carnitine at 500 mg per kilo, and zinc, copper and iron each come in chelated forms beside the standard sulphates. A dog's gut takes up the chelated form more readily.

£7.60 a kilo when we checked, across 2kg, 4kg, 7.5kg and 15kg bags.

Feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition takes about 237 grams a day, which works out at £1.80, using the standard maintenance estimate of around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75).