bosch Sensible Renal & Reduction review

The band our scale assigns here is Average, a step below the Good the typical adult dry food sits in, and it is worth understanding why before reading anything into it. Our scoring measures general adult nutrition, and this recipe deliberately walks away from that target: protein is pushed low, plants carry the load, and the animal content is small. Measured against the job it was actually built for, easing back protein for dogs that need exactly that, the same choices are the point rather than the problem.

Ingredients, as declared: Millet, potatoes (dried), poultry fat, fish meal (5% of which trout meal, salmon meal, sardine meal), potato protein (dried), beet pulp (desugared), protein hydrolysate (vegetarian), flaxseed, tomato paste (dried), yeast (dried), chicory (dried), peas, celery (dried), calcium carbonate, fish oil, carrots (dried), apples (dried), cranberries (dried), sodium chloride, blueberries (dried), seaweed meal, green-lipped mussels (dried), marigold flowers (dried), yucca (dried). Note. The prose says the protein carriers are "exclusively fish (at least 10 %) and potato protein (at least 3 %)", but the composition declares fish meal 5% and lists poultry fat third; it gives no percentage for potato protein. Printed as published.

Millet leads, an easily digested, gluten-free grain, with dried potato behind it. Between them and the potato protein they take carbohydrate to an estimated 66.3% of dry matter against the 46.2% typical, which is exactly what a protein-reduction recipe looks like from the analysis side.

The meat protein is fish and named properly: trout meal, salmon meal and sardine meal making up the 5% fish meal entry, with fish oil later in the list bringing marine omega 3s. Potato protein and a vegetarian protein hydrolysate quietly top the protein up without adding more animal.

Poultry fat carries much of the energy and the palatability. It earns its place in a food that has to stay tasty at low protein. Bird is in the recipe either way, so keep that in mind if you are steering clear of poultry.

The tail of the list is long and rather pretty: dried tomato paste, celery, carrots, apples, cranberries, blueberries, seaweed meal, marigold flowers and yucca, with dried green-lipped mussels making a small joint-friendly appearance. These are seasoning-level entries; the recipe stands or falls on its front half.

The vitamin declaration is unusually rich, with vitamin E at 600mg and vitamin C at 400mg per kilo among a long dosed list. The zinc is split between a chelate at 70mg and an oxide at 40mg. No moisture is declared, so the dry matter figures assume 8%.

£5.12 a kilo. The bag is 11.5kg, with a twin pack version listed alongside it.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would get through roughly 236 grams a day on the standard maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal (110 × bodyweight^0.75), which comes to £1.21 a day.