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Brit Care Dog Grain-free Senior & Light review

Name: Brit Care Dog Grain-free Senior & Light
Brand: Brit

68.6/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Brit's salmon and potato formula, adjusted for older dogs and plump ones. Fat drops to 12%, protein stays up at 27.8% of dry matter, and L-carnitine at 250 mg helps burn what the bowl delivers. It sits in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Senior dogs of any build, toy to giant
Waistline-watching homes, with fat moderated and L-carnitine on the panel
Fish-first dogs: salmon is all of the named meat protein
Ageing joints, with glucosamine at 260 and chondroitin sulphate at 200 mg/kg
An older or overweight heart, as taurine and L-carnitine come as a pair

Worth watching

Lignocellulose is part of the fibre, a bulking agent that fills the stomach without feeding the dog
Chicken fat is on the list, so a strict chicken exclusion is not airtight
Crude fibre at 6.2% can mean bigger stools while a dog adjusts

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

How this scores

How we score

68.6/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. A dog on a slimming plan should be fed to that plan, not to a maintenance figure.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Brit Care Dog Grain-free Senior & Light 68.6

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A reduced-fat recipe that keeps its starch under the shelf average, which is the quietly impressive part of the reading.

What's in it

Salmon: dehydrated salmon, hydrolysed salmon48%Concentrated protein that keeps its share through cooking, so a dieting dog loses fat and keeps muscle.
Potatoes30%The only starch source.
Dried apple pulp
Chicken fatEnergy and taste, and the one animal ingredient that is not fish.
LignocelluloseRefined plant fibre: bulk and satiety at almost no calories.
Brewer's yeast, natural flavour, pea flourThe flavour keeps its source to itself.
Salmon oil3%
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate260, 200 mg/kg
FOS, MOS, beta-glucans200, 150, 50 mg/kgPrebiotics for the gut.
Mojave yucca, milk thistle, motherwort, sea buckthorn, inactivated probioticEach with a quantity stated.

A long dosed panel, with taurine at 1,500 mg and L-carnitine at 250 mg beside the vitamins, and zinc, manganese, copper, iron and selenium all in organic form.

Named ingredients

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).

Against the range

Salmon at 48% and potatoes at 30% carry the recipe, with no grain. Fat is held to 12% and lignocellulose lifts the fibre, while nearly every extra on the list carries a printed dose.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

341 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

12%

Fibre

6.2%

Ash

6.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

27.8%

Fat

13.3%

Fibre

6.9%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

44.8%

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

48%

Carbs

31.4%

Veg

7.2%

Oils

6.9%

Other

6.5%

Pricing & size