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Buddy Grass Fed Lamb Sensitive review

Name: Buddy Grass Fed Lamb Sensitive
Brand: Buddy

65/100Good

DryAdult

A grain-free kibble for delicate stomachs that writes its lamb the honest way round: dried lamb first at 35%, fresh lamb at 15% behind it. Peas and sweet potato carry the starch. The prebiotics and joint pair are dosed in print, which few labels bother to do.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A stomach that complains more often than it should
Touchy digestion, with dosed prebiotics, kelp and gentle starches behind the lamb
Owners steering away from cereal; peas and sweet potato do the binding
Dogs gone stale on chicken-led kibble, grass fed lamb being the named meat
Stiff or ageing joints. Glucosamine at 0.026% and chondroitin at 0.016% are printed

Worth watching

Chicken fat and hydrolysed chicken liver beside the lamb, so a dog avoiding all poultry needs a different recipe
Salmon oil supplies part of the omegas, which matters for a dog kept clear of fish

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

How this scores

How we score

65/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size, toy to giant. For a restricted diet, read the chicken and salmon entries before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Buddy Grass Fed Lamb Sensitive 65.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A meat-led list with the dried share first and a moderate carbohydrate load is what lifts this one.

What's in it

Dried lamb35%Declared in its protein-dense form first, which is where the protein actually ends up.
PeasStarch and binding, in place of grain.
Fresh lamb15%For flavour.
Sweet potato
Chicken fatPreserved with tocopherols. Doing the energy work, and the first non-lamb animal.
Dried apples, carrotsA little soluble fibre.
Hydrolysed chicken liver2%Palatability.
Salmon oilThe third animal on the label.
Dried kelp, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.026%, 0.016% for the joint pair
MOS, FOS, Mojave yucca, citrus, turmeric and rosemary extracts0.015% down to 0.005%Both prebiotics dosed; the extracts are seasoning at trace level.

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

Lamb, chicken and salmon all appear on the label, so it is not a single-protein food for an exclusion diet.

Named ingredients

Dried lamb (35%), peas, fresh lamb (15%), sweet potato, chicken fat (preserved with tocopherols), dried apples, hydrolysed chicken liver (2%), salmon oil, carrots, dried kelp (ascophyllum nodosum), glucosamine (0.026%), chondroitin sulphate (0.016%), mannan-oligosaccharides (0.015%), fructo-oligosaccharides (0.012%), Mojave yucca (0.01%), citrusextrakt (0.005%), curcumaextrakt (0.005%) och rosmarinextrakt (0.005%). Tillverkare: Petbuddy AB

Against the range

One grain-free recipe. Dried lamb leads at 35% with fresh lamb at 15%, while chicken fat, hydrolysed chicken liver and salmon oil put two more animals on the label. Both established prebiotics carry a printed dose, and so do glucosamine and chondroitin.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

353.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

28.9%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

42.8%

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

52%

Carbs

35.4%

Veg

Oils

6.5%

Other

0.1%

Pricing & size