Bounce and Bella Finest Grain-Free Adult Large Breed: Steam Cooked Salmon & Trout review

Both bags finish in our Good band, the same placing the typical adult dry food takes. The recipe earns it the unglamorous way: named animal content at half the recipe, printed percentage splits, a dosed joint trio and dosed prebiotics. The two varieties land in the same band, so the real choice is which animal suits your dog.

Ingredients, as declared: 95% Fish and Vegetables, Salmon & Trout 50% (includes: 33% Freshly Prepared Salmon & Trout, 15% Salmon Meal & 2% Fish Stock) Sweet Potato (26%) Peas (9%) Potato Beet Pulp, 5% Added Goodness, Linseed, Omega 3 Supplement,Minerals, Vegetable Stock, Asparagus (0.3%), Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/ kg), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24 mg/kg)

Each variety declares its animal at 50% with the split in print, and both lean on a proper dried share. The protein survives the oven and converts to 26.1% of dry matter in the finished kibble.

The plant side is sweet potato first, then peas and potato, and there is no grain. Estimated carbohydrate comes to 47.3% of dry matter against the 46.2% typical for adult dry food.

The large breed case rests on the joint trio, dosed rather than sprinkled: glucosamine at 170 mg/kg, methylsulfonylmethane at the same 170 mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate at 125 mg/kg. Calcium comes out at 1.52% of dry matter, and the prebiotics FOS and MOS are printed at 96 and 24 mg/kg.

The vague entries are few but worth naming: the omega 3 supplement gives no source, and the vitamins and minerals appear as single words without an itemised panel. The turkey variety also calls on pea protein and potato protein to help its plant side along.

Salmon and trout make up 50% here: 33% freshly prepared fish, then 15% salmon meal and 2% fish stock, plus asparagus at 0.3%. Every named animal ingredient is fish, which makes it the pick for a big dog kept off land meats.

£5.00 a kilo for either variety, each sold as a single 15kg working dog bag.

The standard maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75) is the basis here, for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition. That dog would get through around 232 grams of the fish variety or 229 grams of the turkey, £1.16 and £1.14 a day respectively. A bigger dog scales up from there by the label's table.