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Brit Care Dog Sustainable Adult Small Breed review

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

71.4/100Excellent

DryAdult

Brit's chicken and insect recipe at terrier scale, and our scoring puts it in the Excellent band. Because the chicken arrives already dried, the 38% on the label holds in the finished kibble. Energy runs to 386 kcal per 100g to keep up with a small dog's quick metabolism.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small breeds with busy engines
Owners who like insect protein doing green work in the bowl, raised on far less land and water than livestock
Early joint support for little knees and hips: glucosamine at 260 mg/kg, chondroitin sulphate at 200 mg/kg
A named meat first on the label
Small hearts, with taurine added at 1,500 mg a kilo

Worth watching

Small dogs overdo calories quickly, so a leisurely lapdog needs the low end of the guide
Chicken and salmon oil both in, so it is out for a dog avoiding either
Oats, which keep it out of grain-free territory

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

How this scores

How we score

71.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small-breed adults. A genuinely small dog eats far less than the 15kg guide figure, so scale from the bag's table and your dog's waist.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Brit Care Dog Sustainable Adult Small Breed 71.4

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Named, concentrated meat first on the label, a carbohydrate share below the dry-food norm and dosed extras put it a step above the typical adult kibble.

What's in it

Chicken: dehydrated, hydrolysed38%No fresh meat, so the water has already gone and the share reflects the kibble.
Oats26%An easy grain on small stomachs.
Dehydrated insect14%Novel to most dogs; to the dog it is simply protein.
Chicken fat
Dried apple pulp, natural flavour, brewer's yeast
Salmon oil2%Puts fish on the label.
Pea flourSupports the oats in binding.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate260 mg/kg, 200 mg/kgReal doses.
FOS, MOS, beta-glucans, inactivated Lactobacillus helveticus200 down to 50 mg/kgPrebiotics and an inactivated probiotic culture.
Mojave yucca, milk thistle, motherwort, sea buckthorn150 down to 50 mg/kgGarnish at these levels.

A full panel with taurine and L-carnitine, and trace minerals chelated and dosed, zinc at 85 mg and iron at 75 mg per kilo among them.

Named ingredients

Chicken (38%) (dehydrated chicken, hydrolysed chicken), oats (26%), dehydrated insect (14%), chicken fat, dried apple pulp, 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

Chicken at 38%, all dried and hydrolysed, leads with dehydrated insect at 14% behind it. Oats at 26% bind the kibble, and the joint and gut extras each carry a printed dose.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

386 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

6.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

31.1%

Fat

18.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

39.5%

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

28.3%

Veg

4.9%

Oils

8.3%

Other

6.5%

Pricing & size