Brit Care Grain-Free Adult review

We place this recipe in our Excellent band, a step up on the Good band the typical adult dry food holds. The single named meat at a genuinely high inclusion is what lifts it, backed by a carbohydrate estimate that stays under the dry-food norm and supplements declared at real doses.

Ingredients, as declared: salmon (50%) (dehydrated salmon, hydrolysed salmon), potatoes (26%), dried apple pulp, chicken fat, salmon oil (3%), natural flavour, 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), probiotic Lactobacillus helveticus HA - 122 inactivated (15x109 cells/kg).

Salmon at 50% is the whole animal story, split between dehydrated and hydrolysed forms. Because both are dried, the declared share is not propped up by water, and the hydrolysed fraction doubles as a natural palatant. Protein converts to 28.9% of dry matter, with estimated carbohydrate at 43.6% against a 46.2% dry-food typical.

Potatoes at 26% are the binder, a common grain-free stand-in that is mostly starch but adds potassium and vitamin C along the way. Pea flour and dried apple pulp assist.

The one asterisk on the fish-only reading is chicken fat, sitting fourth on the list. It is there for energy and flavour rather than protein, but it means the recipe cannot promise a completely chicken-free bowl, which matters for the strictest elimination diets.

Supplements come with numbers attached: glucosamine at 260 mg/kg, chondroitin sulphate at 200 mg/kg, prebiotic fructo-oligosaccharides at 200 mg/kg, mannan-oligosaccharides at 150 mg/kg and an inactivated probiotic. Taurine at 1,500 mg and L-carnitine at 250 mg appear among the additives.

Chelated trace minerals close out the label, each with a printed dose. Behind them, at trace level, sit the familiar Brit botanicals: milk thistle, sea buckthorn and motherwort.

Sold in 1kg, 3kg and 12kg bags.

As a guide, about 225 grams a day feeds a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, assuming in the region of 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate).