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Brit Care Dog Sustainable Adult Large Breed review

Name: Brit Care Dog Sustainable Adult Large Breed
Brand: Brit

68.6/100Good

DryAdult

Brit's chicken and insect formula, rebalanced for big frames, and a Good food on our scale. Chicken and oats share the top at 34% each, with insect protein a further 14%. Fat sits at a sensible 14%, so a heavy dog carries no spare calories.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large and giant breeds, with a feeding table that runs up to 90kg
Big dogs prone to gaining, as fat is capped at a moderate 14%
Heavy joints: glucosamine at 260 mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate at 200 mg/kg
Households thinking about footprint. Insect protein makes up 14% of the recipe

Worth watching

Oats match the chicken at 34%, so this is no use to a grain-free household
Chicken and salmon oil are both on the list, which rules it out for dogs avoiding either

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 adult large breeds. Budget from your dog's real weight: the label asks 300 to 370 grams a day between 30kg and 40kg.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Brit Care Dog Sustainable Adult Large Breed 68.6

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Transparency reads Outstanding, while nutritional balance is the soft spot at Average.

What's in it

Chicken (dehydrated chicken, hydrolysed chicken)34%No fresh chicken, so no cooking water flatters the share.
Oats34%An equal share, carrying the starch.
Dehydrated insect14%The second animal protein, made with far less land and water than livestock.
Dried apple pulp, chicken fat, natural flavour
Brewer's yeast
Salmon oil2%Fish on the label, for dogs avoiding it.
Pea flour
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate260 mg/kg, 200 mg/kgFor joints that carry real load.
FOS, MOS, Mojave yucca, beta-glucans200 mg/kg down to 50 mg/kg
Milk thistle seed, motherwort, sea buckthorn, inactivated Lactobacillus helveticusTrace level, there for the label more than the dog.

Taurine at 1,500 mg for the heart muscle, a generous dose of L-tryptophan, a full vitamin list and organic zinc, manganese, copper and iron.

Named ingredients

Chicken (34%) (dehydrated chicken, hydrolysed chicken), oats (34%), dehydrated insect (14%), dried apple pulp, chicken fat, natural flavour, brewer's yeast, salmon oil (2%), 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), Lactobacillus helveticus HA - 122 inactivated (15x109 cells/kg).

Against the range

Dehydrated and hydrolysed chicken at 34% shares top billing with oats at 34%, and dehydrated insect adds 14% as a second animal protein. Fat is held at 14% for heavy dogs. Calcium works out at 1.44% of dry matter, and the joint supplements carry printed doses.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

376 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

5.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

27.8%

Fat

15.6%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

6.1%

Carbs

47.4%

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

35.8%

Veg

5.9%

Oils

5.2%

Other

5.1%

Pricing & size