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Brit Care Dog Grain-free Junior Large Breed review

Name: Brit Care Dog Grain-free Junior Large Breed
Brand: Brit

71.9/100Excellent

DryPuppy

A large breed puppy food that prints the number its job depends on, and it reaches our Excellent band. Calcium converts to 1.33% of dry matter, inside the range a big skeleton should grow on. Salmon is the only meat, and potatoes stand in for grain.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large breed juniors, the dogs this was formulated around
Owners who check the calcium figure first
Pups that do well on fish: salmon at 52% is the whole of the meat
Grain-free homes, with potatoes at 26% carrying the starch
Early joint help, glucosamine at 300 mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate at 230 mg/kg
Named gut support, FOS and MOS with an inactivated Lactobacillus culture

Worth watching

Chicken fat on the list, which rules out a strict chicken-free elimination diet
A dairy flag on the allergen listing with no milk ingredient named. Ask the maker if your pup has reacted to dairy
Natural flavour, the one unnamed entry
Carbohydrate at 40.8% of dry matter, a shade above the puppy norm, so weigh the portions

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

How this scores

How we score

71.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large breed puppies. The chart starts at 250g a day at three to four months for a pup heading to 25kg; follow it by age and weight, not a fixed scoop.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Brit Care Dog Grain-free Junior Large Breed 71.9

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

No soft corner anywhere: a single named meat at 52% and an in-range calcium figure carry it a full band clear of the typical puppy dry food.

What's in it

Salmon: dehydrated salmon, hydrolysed salmon52%The entire meat content. Hydrolysed protein is broken small for a young gut.
Potatoes26%The starch, in place of grain.
Chicken fatEnergy-dense, and the exception to the single fish story.
Dried apple pulpGentle fibre.
Salmon oil3%Long chain omega 3 for a growing brain, eyes and coat.
Natural flavourThe one unnamed entry.
Brewer's yeast, hydrolysed yeast, pea flour0.5% hydrolysed yeast
Glucosamine, FOS, chondroitin sulphate, MOS, Mojave yucca300 down to 180 mg/kgJoints and gut, every dose printed.
Milk thistle seed, beta glucans, motherwort, sea buckthorn110 down to 60 mg/kgMilk thistle is a traditional liver support.
Lactobacillus helveticus, inactivated

A thorough panel with taurine at 1,500 mg/kg and L-carnitine, and the trace minerals in organic chelated forms, generally absorbed better than sulphates.

The allergen listing flags dairy, yet no milk ingredient appears. Ask the maker if your pup has reacted to dairy.

Named ingredients

Salmon (52%) (dehydrated salmon, hydrolysed salmon), potatoes (26%), chicken fat, dried apple pulp, salmon oil (3%), natural flavour, brewer's yeast, hydrolysed yeast (0.5% - a source of inositol and amino acids), pea flour, glucosamine (300 mg/kg), fructo-oligosaccharides (230 mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (230 mg/kg), mannan-oligosaccharides (180 mg/kg), Mojave yucca (180 mg/kg), milk thistle seed (110 mg/kg), β-glucans (60 mg/kg), dried motherwort (60 mg/kg), dried sea buckthorn (60 mg/kg), probiotic Lactobacillus helveticus HA - 122 inactivated (15x109 cells/kg).

Against the range

One growth recipe for large breed juniors. Salmon at 52% is the only meat, dehydrated and hydrolysed, potatoes carry the starch with no grain, and chicken fat supplies most of the fat. Almost every supplement in the tail has a dose printed, and calcium is declared.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

373 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

31.1%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

40.8%

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

52%

Carbs

27.4%

Veg

4.8%

Oils

9.1%

Other

6.7%

Pricing & size