Canagan Small Breed Dental review

We read this food as Excellent, a step clear of the typical adult dry recipe in our Good band. That distance is earned in the usual unglamorous places: a meat-led list with printed percentages, restrained carbohydrate and declared doses on the working extras.

Ingredients, as declared: Freshly Prepared Turkey (33%), Dried Chicken (18.7%), Sweet Potato, Potato, Peas, Chicken Fat (4%), Alfalfa, Dried Egg (3.1%), Pea Protein, Chicken Gravy (1.6%), Salmon Oil (1.2%), Minerals, ProDen PlaqueOff® (2,500 mg/kg), Glucosamine (850 mg/kg), MSM (850 mg/kg), Apple, Carrot, Fructooligosaccharides, Spinach, Psyllium, Chondroitin Sulphate (620mg/kg), Peppermint, Camomile, Marigold, Cranberry, Parsley, Aniseed & Fenugreek.

Turkey opens at 33% freshly prepared, and once cooking has driven the water off, the dried chicken at 18.7% is left holding a large share of the finished protein. The declared analysis reads 33% protein and 18% fat, converting to 35.9% and 19.6% of dry matter, with energy at a dense 394 kcal per 100g.

ProDen PlaqueOff is the reason this recipe exists: a milled North Atlantic seaweed at 2,500 mg/kg that, fed daily, works through the saliva to discourage tartar from taking hold. Printing the inclusion rate sets it apart from foods that simply write dental on the bag.

Sweet potato, potato and peas bind the kibble without grain, with the carbohydrate estimate converting to 33.0% of dry matter, well below the 46.2% typical for adult dry food. Pea protein turns up further down, adding a plant contribution to the protein total. It is a supporting entry, nothing to worry about.

The joint trio is dosed at 850 mg/kg each for glucosamine and MSM with chondroitin sulphate at 620 mg/kg, and dried egg at 3.1% adds complete protein. Parsley and peppermint in the herb tail nod at the breath brief, though at trace level they are garnish.

£8.08 a kilo, in 2kg and 6kg bags.

Using the usual maintenance arithmetic, about 840 kcal a day for a 15kg adult in moderate condition (110 × bodyweight^0.75), daily feeding lands near 213 grams and £1.72. The dogs this food is made for sit well under that weight, and the label's chart runs from 50 grams a day at 3kg to 120 grams at 10kg.