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Brit Care Dog Hair & Skin. Insect&Fish review

Name: Brit Care Dog Hair & Skin. Insect&Fish
Brand: Brit

63.4/100Good

DryAdult

A coat recipe in our Good band that skips the farmyard meats and pairs insect protein with white fish. The label declares its fatty acids all the way down to EPA and DHA, which is rarer than it should be. Peas do a fair share of the work.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Itchy or dull-coated dogs, with EPA at 0.25% and DHA at 0.2% declared
Dogs that have worked through the common meats; insect protein is about as unfamiliar as it gets
The omegas in writing: omega 3 at 0.7%, omega 6 at 2.5%
Any size of dog, toys to giants

Worth watching

White fish, hydrolysed fish protein and salmon oil, so no use for a dog avoiding fish
Peas three ways, so plants carry some of the protein figure
Insect species not named

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

How this scores

How we score

63.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Before ordering, make sure fish is not on your dog's avoid list.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Brit Care Dog Hair & Skin. Insect&Fish 63.4

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

It earns its place on openness more than meat density, with carbohydrate sitting exactly at the typical adult kibble.

What's in it

Insects, dehydrated14%Water already out, so the figure survives the oven. A prior intolerance is very unlikely.
White fish, dehydrated14%
Yellow peas, green peas14% eachFibre and protein of their own.
Dried apple pulp, pea proteinPea protein tops up the protein figure from plants.
Coconut oil8%
Hydrolysed white fish protein4%Broken into small fragments for flavour and digestibility.
Brewer's yeast, salmon oil, linseed2% salmon oil, 2% linseedThe marine and plant omega 3s the coat case rests on.
Egg shellsAn old-fashioned but effective calcium source.
Glucosamine, chondroitin, FOS, MOS, yucca, inulin0.02% down to 0.009%Prebiotics for the gut.
Milk thistle, rosemary, cloves, citrus, curcuma, inactivated Lactobacillus0.005% eachSeasoning, plus a heat-treated culture.

Fully dosed, with zinc at 100 mg per kilo, the trace element skin leans on hardest.

Named ingredients

Insects dehydrated (14%), white fish dehydrated (14%), yellow peas (14%), green peas (14%), dried apple pulp, pea protein, coconut oil (8%), white fish protein hydrolyzed (4%), brewer´s yeast, salmon oil (2%), linseed (2%), eggs shells, glucosamine (0.02%), chondroitin sulphate (0.015%), fructo-oligosaccharides (0.012%), mannan-oligosaccharides (0.012%), Mojave yucca (0.01%), inulin (0.009%), dried milk thistle (0.005%), dried rosemary (0.005%), dried cloves (0.005%), dried citrus (0.005%), dried curcuma (0.005%), Lactobacillus acidophilus HA - 122 inactivated (15x10 9 cells/kg).

Against the range

Dehydrated insects and white fish share the lead at 14% each, with no farmyard meat in the bag. Yellow and green peas match them at 14% each, and coconut oil, salmon oil and linseed carry the fats, with EPA and DHA printed on the pack.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

362 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

7.2%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

27.8%

Fat

14.4%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

Carbs

46.2%

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

36.2%

Carbs

37.9%

Veg

9.2%

Oils

10%

Other

6.7%

Pricing & size