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Buddy Active Free Range Duck review

Name: Buddy Active Free Range Duck
Brand: Buddy

71.2/100Excellent

DryAdult

A duck-heavy kibble for big dogs that cover real distance, and it sits in our Excellent band. Duck is named twice at the top of the label, at 44% and then 26% fresh, with no grain anywhere. Protein reaches 36% as fed and fat 18%.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large, active dogs, the build and workload it was designed around
A real appetite for meat, at 40.0% protein in dry matter
Dogs that do their best work on poultry
Cereal-free feeding. Peas and sweet potato do the binding

Worth watching

Chicken fat and hydrolysed chicken liver, so it is duck-led, not chicken free
Fuel for hard work: a large dog in gentle retirement needs the scoop watched

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

How this scores

How we score

71.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large breed adults with a working day. If yours is winding down, weigh portions from the start.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Buddy Active Free Range Duck 71.2

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The margin over the typical dry food is built on meat, with estimated carbohydrate a long way beneath the usual figure.

What's in it

Duck44%Carries the bulk.
Fresh duck26%Loses most of its water in the oven.
Chicken fatThe cooking fat, and chicken in a duck food.
Peas, sweet potatoWhat starch there is, and there is not much.
Hydrolysed chicken liver2%Palatant.
Salmon oilMarine omega 3.
Dried apples, carrots, dried kelp
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.026% and 0.016%Modest doses, but declared.
MOS, FOS, Mojave yucca0.015% down to 0.01%

Vitamins A, D3 and E with biotin, and zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium, all dosed.

Named ingredients

Duck (44%), fresh duck (26%), chicken fat (preserved with tocopherols), peas, sweet potato, hydrolysed chicken liver (2%), salmon oil, dried apples, carrots, dried kelp (ascophyllum nodosum), glucosamine (0.026%), chondroitin sulphate (0.016%), mannan-oligosaccharides (0.015%), fructo-oligosaccharides (0.012%), Mojave yucca (0.01%).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

369 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

36%

Fat

18%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

7.8%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

20%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

28.5%

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

72%

Carbs

15.5%

Veg

3.2%

Oils

9.2%

Other

0.1%

Pricing & size