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Brit Care Dog Sustainable Senior review

Name: Brit Care Dog Sustainable Senior
Brand: Brit

67.2/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Brit's chicken and insect formula, reworked for dogs easing off the pace, and it settles in our Good band. The numbers do the senior work: fat down, energy at 342 kcal per 100g, fibre up so the bowl still feels full. Joint doses and a calming amino acid sit on the label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs whose waistlines creep
Stiffening joints, with glucosamine at 260 mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate at 200 mg/kg
Dogs that like a full bowl. Fibre at 6% adds bulk without calories
Owners who want an older dog's food to tread lightly, with insect protein at 14%

Worth watching

Part of the fibre is lignocellulose, a purified plant fibre that works well as bulk but is a processing ingredient
Chicken, oats and salmon oil, so not one for a dog avoiding chicken, grain or fish

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

How this scores

How we score

67.2/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. An older, slower dog may well need less than the label's table, so feed to condition.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Brit Care Dog Sustainable Senior 67.2

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A gentle food that wins on execution: named proteins, printed doses and a calorie level that respects an older dog's slower burn.

What's in it

Chicken (dehydrated, hydrolysed)32%Dried forms, so the share is not inflated by water lost in cooking.
Oats30%
Dehydrated insect14%The second animal protein, farmed with a fraction of the resources meat needs.
Dried apple pulp
LignocellulosesRefined, essentially calorie-free plant fibre. Sounds more like forestry than food.
Chicken fat, natural flavour, brewer's yeast
Salmon oil2%Fish, for households avoiding it.
Pea flour
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, FOS, MOS, yucca, beta-glucans260 mg/kg down to 50 mg/kgJoint support and prebiotics, all dosed.
Milk thistle, motherwort, sea buckthorn, inactivated Lactobacillus helveticusThe customary Brit tail, at trace level.

A full vitamin panel with taurine for the heart, L-carnitine to help burn fat, a generous L-tryptophan dose for settled behaviour, and organic zinc, manganese, copper and iron.

Named ingredients

Chicken (32%) (dehydrated chicken, hydrolysed chicken), oats (30%), dehydrated insect (14%), dried apple pulp, lignocelluloses, 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

Chicken at 32%, dried and hydrolysed, leads with oats at 30%, and dehydrated insect adds 14% as a second protein. Fat is trimmed to 11% and fibre lifted to 6%, partly from lignocellulose, with joint doses and L-tryptophan printed.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

342 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

11%

Fibre

Ash

5.2%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

26.7%

Fat

12.2%

Fibre

6.7%

Ash

5.8%

Carbs

48.6%

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

46%

Carbs

31.6%

Veg

8.3%

Oils

4.9%

Other

9.1%

Pricing & size