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Brit Care Mini Grain Free Puppy review

Name: Brit Care Mini Grain Free Puppy
Brand: Brit

74.7/100Excellent

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A rich, meaty food for small-breed pups, and it reaches our Excellent band. Lamb leads twice, as a meat meal at 35% and fresh lamb protein at 20%, with yellow pea and chickpeas in place of cereal. At 420 kcal per 100g it is built for the speed little pups grow at.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small-breed pups, exactly who it was written for
No cereal in the bowl: yellow pea, chickpeas and buckwheat carry the starch
Small pups with big engines, at 420 kcal per 100g against the 376 typical
Lamb leading, with 55% of the label between the two entries
Supplements quantified, from glucosamine at 290 mg/kg to chondroitin at 180 mg/kg

Worth watching

Calcium at 1.78% of dry matter, above what a large-breed growth plan allows
Cartilage extract with no animal named, which matters in a strict single-meat trial
Chicken fat and salmon oil beside the lamb, so it is not lamb alone
Fat at 23.0%, so a calmer pup needs the scoop levelled

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

How this scores

How we score

74.7/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small-breed puppies only. Read the mini on the front as an instruction: for a pup that will finish large, the calcium runs too high.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Brit Care Mini Grain Free Puppy 74.7

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Plenty of lamb, plenty of energy and less starch than almost anything else on the growth shelf explain the climb.

What's in it

Lamb meat meal35%Dried and rendered, so the share carries into the kibble close to as printed.
Fresh lamb protein20%The palatability that gets a fussy pup eating.
Yellow pea
Chicken fatCarries most of the fat, so chicken is on the label.
Chickpeas
Linseed, salmon oil5%, 3%The omega 3 side.
Buckwheat, dried apples, brewer's yeastBuckwheat is a seed, not a grain.
Algae0.5%Trace minerals from the sea.
Hydrolysed crustacean shells, cartilage extractGlucosamine and chondroitin; the cartilage names no animal.
Blueberries, prebiotics, herbs and fruits, yucca, milk thistle, sea buckthorn, chamomile, cloves, sage

Vitamins A, D3, E and C, biotin, the B group, choline and taurine, with zinc at 110 mg, iron at 90 mg, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium.

Calcium at 1.78% of dry matter runs above large-breed growth plans; this food is for small pups only.

Named ingredients

Lamb meat meal (35%), fresh lamb protein (20%), yellow pea, chicken fat (preserved with tocopherols), chickpeas, linseed (5%), salmon oil (3%), buckwheat, dried apples, brewer´s yeast, algae (0.5%, Ascophyllum nodosum), hydrolyzed crustacean shells (a source of glucosamine, 290 mg/kg), blueberries (250 mg/kg, a source of polyphenols 75 mg/kg & flavonoids 35 mg/kg), cartilage extract (a source of chondroitin, 180 mg/kg), mannan-oligosaccharides (170 mg/kg), herbs & fruits (rosemary, cloves, citrus, curcuma, 160 mg/kg), fructo-oligosaccharides (110 mg/kg), yucca schidigera (110 mg/kg), inulin (100 mg/kg), milk thistle (80 mg/kg), sea buckthorn (80 mg/kg), chamomile (35 mg/kg), cloves (35 mg/kg), sage (30 mg/kg)

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

420 kcal/100g

Protein

33%

Fat

23%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

36.7%

Fat

25.6%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

9.4%

Carbs

26.6%

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

55%

Carbs

27%

Veg

2.3%

Oils

8.2%

Other

7.5%

Pricing & size