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Brit Care Grain-Free Puppy review

Name: Brit Care Grain-Free Puppy
Brand: Brit

71/100Excellent

DryPuppy

A salmon-led growth kibble with no cereal anywhere, in our Excellent band. Salmon makes up 55% of the label and salmon oil at 3% tops up the marine fats. Calcium is printed at 1.33% of dry matter, inside the range growth asks for.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Fish-first pups. Salmon is the only meat on the list
Grain-free homes, with potatoes doing the starch work
Large and giant breed pups, with calcium printed and inside the growth range
Joint support you can read in numbers: glucosamine at 300 mg/kg, chondroitin sulphate at 230 mg/kg

Worth watching

Chicken fat in the recipe, so it cannot anchor a strict poultry-free trial
Hydrolysed salmon as well as dried, worth telling a vet running a formal exclusion diet
Potatoes at 26%, so measure portions for a laid back pup

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

How this scores

How we score

71/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, toy to giant. There is no fixed daily amount for a growing pup, so read the weight band on the pack and revise it as the weeks go by.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Brit Care Grain-Free Puppy 71.0

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Comfortably ahead of the middle of the puppy field, on a single named fish, a modest starch base and a declared calcium figure.

What's in it

Salmon: dehydrated, hydrolysed55%The dried fish is close to its printed share; the hydrolysed part is protein broken into easily absorbed fragments.
Potatoes26%The whole starch story, and one that digests well.
Chicken fatA fat, but from a bird, which matters for a formal exclusion plan.
Salmon oil3%Omega 3 for a young coat and nervous system.
Dried apple pulp, natural flavour
Brewer's yeast, hydrolysed yeast0.5% for the hydrolysed yeast
Pea flourA small amount.
Glucosamine, FOS, chondroitin sulphate, MOS300 down to 180 mg/kgJoint support and prebiotics, each dosed.
Mojave yucca, milk thistle seed, beta-glucans, motherwort, sea buckthorn180 down to 60 mg/kg
Lactobacillus helveticus, inactivated

A full vitamin and trace mineral panel in organic forms, selenium at 0.18 mg, with taurine, choline and L-carnitine added.

Named ingredients

Salmon (55%) (dehydrated salmon, hydrolysed salmon), potatoes (26%), chicken fat, salmon oil (3%), dried apple pulp, natural flavour, brewer's yeast, 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), probiotic Lactobacillus helveticus HA - 122 inactivated (15x109 cells/kg).

Against the range

One grain-free puppy kibble. Salmon is the only meat, at 55% in dried and hydrolysed forms, potatoes at 26% take the starch, and chicken fat and salmon oil supply the fats. Doses are printed right down to the bottom of the list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

393 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

18%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

33.3%

Fat

20%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

36.1%

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

55%

Carbs

27.2%

Veg

Oils

8.2%

Other

5.6%

Pricing & size