Brit Care Mini Grain Free Yorkshire review

Our assessment places this recipe in the Good band, with protein and processing, nutritional balance and value all reading Good and transparency Outstanding. The typical adult dry food comes to rest in the same band, and the Yorkshire still stands out with an unusually meaty build for a small-breed food. Fish fills the top of the label, and estimated carbohydrate converts to 33.2% of dry matter, well under the 46.2% typical for adult dry food.

Ingredients, as declared: Salmon (20%), fresh salmon protein (15%), dried tuna (15%), yellow pea, chicken fat (preserved with tocopherols), chickpeas, linseed (5%), buckwheat, salmon oil (3%), dried apples, brewer's yeast, algae (0.5%, Ascophyllum nodosum), hydrolyzed crustacean shells (a source of glucosamine, 260 mg/kg), blueberries (230 mg/kg, source of polyphenols 70 mg/kg & flavonoids 30 mg/kg), cartilage extract (a source of chondroitin, 160 mg/kg), mannan-oligosaccharides (150 mg/kg), herbs & fruits (rosemary, cloves, citrus, curcuma, 150 mg/kg), fructo-oligosaccharides (100 mg/kg), yucca schidigera (100 mg/kg), inulin (90 mg/kg), milk thistle (75 mg/kg), sea buckthorn (75 mg/kg), chamomile (30 mg/kg), cloves (30 mg/kg), sage (25 mg/kg)

Three fish entries open the label: salmon at 20%, fresh salmon protein at 15% and dried tuna at 15%. Most of the water in the fresh entries goes in the oven, and the dried tuna keeps the protein standing once it has. The analysis suggests the plan works, with protein finishing at 30% as fed.

The binding is handled by yellow pea, chickpeas and buckwheat, with not a grain anywhere on the list. Linseed at 5% is a generous inclusion, and with salmon oil at 3% it forms the recipe's case for the glossy coat this breed is famous for.

Chicken fat supplies much of the energy. It is a well-liked, digestible fat, and most fish-fed dogs never give it a thought. It does stop the recipe being a single-species food, which only matters if you are trying to run a strict elimination trial.

Each entry in the functional tail arrives with its dose printed. Glucosamine comes from hydrolysed crustacean shells at 260 mg/kg and chondroitin from cartilage extract at 160 mg/kg, with prebiotic support from mannan-oligosaccharides at 150 mg/kg and fructo-oligosaccharides at 100 mg/kg. Blueberries at 230 mg/kg, milk thistle, sea buckthorn and the rest of the herb list sit at trace level, flourish rather than function.

Bags come in 0.4kg, 2kg and 7kg, at £5.71 a kilo.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would get through about 215 grams a day, which comes to £1.23 a day. That assumes around 840 kcal daily (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). A Yorkshire-sized dog eats far less: the label asks 40 to 55 grams a day for a dog between 2kg and 4kg.