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Brit Care Dog Sustainable Junior Large Breed review

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

72.7/100Excellent

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A growth food for big pups with insect protein in it, and it reaches our Excellent band. Dehydrated insect at 14% sits beside chicken at 38%, with oats at 28% carrying the starch. Calcium is declared at 1.44% of dry matter, inside the window a large frame needs while it is going up.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A lower-footprint protein, with insect at 14% doing real work
Large breed pups, with calcium declared and in range
Heavy-framed youngsters: glucosamine at 300 mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate at 230 mg/kg
Pups settling into a new home. L-tryptophan is among the added amino acids

Worth watching

Chicken as dried meat, hydrolysate and fat, so not poultry free
Oats at 28%, taking carbohydrate to 43.5% of dry matter against 39.0% typical

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

How this scores

How we score

72.7/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large breed puppies. Appetite changes quickly while they grow, so follow the weight bands on the pack and keep adjusting.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Brit Care Dog Sustainable Junior Large Breed 72.7

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

It has no headline protein figure to trade on; the insect, the declared calcium and the printed doses lift it, and the oat share holds it where it is.

What's in it

Chicken: dehydrated chicken, hydrolysed chicken38%The dried part survives into the kibble; the hydrolysed part is easy to absorb and hard to refuse.
Oats28%Among the more digestible cereals once cooked.
Dehydrated insect14%Every amino acid a growing dog needs, from a fraction of the land livestock takes.
Dried apple pulp, natural flavour, brewer's yeast
Chicken fatMost of the energy.
Salmon oil2%The marine omega 3.
Hydrolysed yeast, pea flour0.5% yeast
Glucosamine, FOS, chondroitin sulphate300, 230, 230 mg/kgJoint and gut support, all dosed.
MOS, Mojave yucca, milk thistle seed, beta-glucans, motherwort, sea buckthorn180 down to 60 mg/kg
Lactobacillus helveticus, inactivated

Taurine, L-carnitine and L-tryptophan at 4,000 mg, with zinc, manganese, copper and iron all in organic form.

Chicken runs through the recipe in three forms, so the insect does not make it poultry free.

Named ingredients

Chicken (38%) (dehydrated chicken, hydrolysed chicken), oats (28%), dehydrated insect (14%), dried apple pulp, chicken fat, natural flavour, brewer's yeast, salmon oil (2%), hydrolysed yeast (0.5% - a source of inositol and amino acids), pea flour, glucosamine (300 mg/kg), fructo-oligosaccharides (230 mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (230 mg/kg), mannan-oligosaccharides (180 mg/kg), Mojave yucca (180 mg/kg), milk thistle seed (110 mg/kg), β-glucans (60 mg/kg), dried motherwort (60 mg/kg), dried sea buckthorn (60 mg/kg), Lactobacillus helveticus HA - 122 inactivated (15x109 cells/kg).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

384.5 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

5.7%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

31.1%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

6.3%

Carbs

43.5%

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

29.3%

Veg

6.8%

Oils

5.7%

Other

6.2%

Pricing & size