Canidae Pure Sea review

Pure Sea takes a spot in our Good band, level with the typical adult dry food, with nutritional balance and transparency both reading Excellent and protein and processing Good. For a recipe this short that is a tidy return; the stacked fish entries do the scoring work without a long supplement list behind them.

Ingredients, as declared: Salmon (16%), Dried Salmon Meat (16%), Fish Meal (16%), Sweet Potatoes (16%), Peas (16%), Canola Oil, Alfalfa, Potatoes, Gravy.

Three fish entries at 16% apiece take different routes into the food. Most of the fresh salmon's water goes during cooking, while the dried salmon meat and the fish meal arrive concentrated. Between them protein reaches 35.6% of dry matter, a properly meaty outcome from so plain a list.

Fish meal is rendered whole fish ground to a powder, an efficient source of amino acids, fats and minerals. Its shortcoming is anonymity, since the species that went into it are never named on the label.

Sweet potatoes at 16% lead the plant side with peas at the same level and potatoes further down the list. Carbohydrate is estimated at 28.9% of dry matter, usefully under the category's typical 46.2%.

Canola oil supplies the fat from a plant source, keeping poultry fat off this label, while the closing gravy declines to name its species, the single entry stopping this from being a provably all-fish recipe. Ash at 11.1% of dry matter tracks with the bone content that fish meal brings.

Bag options are 1.8kg and 10.8kg.

Worked from about 840 kcal a day for a 15kg adult in moderate condition, the standard 110 × bodyweight^0.75 estimate, the serving comes to roughly 236 grams daily. Start on the 1.8kg bag to check the aroma suits your kitchen as well as your dog.