Brit Care Dog Grain-free Senior & Light review

Our Good band holds this recipe, and the typical adult dry food with it. Transparency reads Outstanding, nutritional balance Average, and both protein and processing and value land on Good. The strengths are the ones the brand shows elsewhere: a single named fish at 48%, doses printed for nearly everything, organic trace minerals. An estimated carbohydrate of 44.8% of dry matter, under the typical 46.2%, is a quietly impressive figure for a reduced-fat recipe, which usually pays for its lightness in extra starch.

Ingredients, as declared: salmon (48%) (dehydrated salmon, hydrolysed salmon), potatoes (30%), dried apple pulp, chicken fat, lignocellulose, brewer's yeast, salmon oil (3%), natural flavour, pea flour, glucosamine (260 mg/kg), fructo-oligosaccharides (200 mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (200 mg/kg), mannan-oligosaccharides (150 mg/kg), Mojave yucca (150 mg/kg), milk thistle seed (90 mg/kg), β-glucans (50 mg/kg), dried motherwort (50 mg/kg), dried sea buckthorn (50 mg/kg), probiotic Lactobacillus helveticus HA - 122 inactivated (15x109 cells/kg).

Salmon leads at 48% in dehydrated and hydrolysed form, concentrated protein that holds its declared share through cooking. Protein converts to 27.8% of dry matter, kept deliberately high so an older or dieting dog loses fat rather than muscle.

Potatoes at 30% remain the sole starch source, keeping the recipe genuinely grain free, with apple pulp and pea flour in support.

The lightness comes partly from lignocellulose, refined plant fibre that adds bulk and satiety at almost no calories. It is a legitimate tool in weight-control recipes, just not a nutritious one, and it is why crude fibre reads 6.2%.

Chicken fat brings energy and palatability, and it is the one animal ingredient that is not fish, worth a mention for anyone counting species. The natural flavour entry likewise keeps its source to itself.

The measured extras run deep. The joint pair is at 260 and 200 mg/kg, with prebiotic fructo-oligosaccharides and mannan-oligosaccharides for the gut. Milk thistle, sea buckthorn and Mojave yucca each come with a quantity stated, as does an inactivated probiotic culture. Taurine at 1,500 mg alongside the L-carnitine is exactly the pairing you want supporting an older or overweight heart.

£5.00 a kilo across 1kg, 3kg and 12kg bags.

Taking the standard maintenance requirement of about 840 kcal for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition (110 × bodyweight^0.75), a day's feeding is roughly 246 grams at £1.23. A dog on a slimming plan will be fed to that plan rather than to a maintenance figure.