Carnilove

Carnilove Active Adult: Duck & Pheasant review

Name: Carnilove Active Adult: Duck & Pheasant
Brand: Carnilove

75.6/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

Four grain-free bags for the dog that works for a living, every one in our Excellent band. Game is the theme, from pheasant and wild boar to reindeer and venison. Concentrated meat proteins stack up behind the fresh meat, and carbohydrate sits well under the typical dry food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working and sporting dogs at the serious end
Dogs bored of chicken. Duck, pheasant, lamb, boar, salmon and venison lead instead
Grain-avoiding homes, with yellow peas and chickpeas in place of cereal
Owners who want taurine dosed for the heart

Worth watching

More species than the name on every bag: beef fat and salmon oil throughout, turkey in most
A dog that mostly supervises the kitchen will gain on these unless portions are trimmed

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

How this scores

How we score

75.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for active adult dogs. The bag's table assumes hard work, so a pet with an ordinary day needs less than the chart.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Lamb 77.2
Venison 76.7
Duck 75.6
Salmon 75.3

All four Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The gap between siblings is small, so pick on protein and let the scores look after themselves.

What's in it

Fresh duck26%
Yellow peasMain starch.
Pheasant hydrolysed protein14%The game note.
Beef fat12%Main energy source, and beef in a bird recipe.
Duck protein, turkey hydrolysed protein10%, 4%
Pea protein, hydrolysed liver, chickpeas3% liverLiver species not given.
Apple pulp, linseed, pumpkin, carrots
Salmon oil1%Marine omega 3s.
Sea buckthorn, ginger, berries, herbs0.2% and below
Crustacean shells, cartilage extract, chicory, yeast, yuccaGlucosamine from shellfish, chondroitin from cartilage.

Taurine and choline at a hefty dose, a full B-vitamin run and chelated trace minerals.

Named ingredients

Fresh duck (26%), yellow peas, pheasant hydrolysed protein (14%), beef fat (12%), duck protein (10%), turkey hydrolysed protein (4%), pea protein, hydrolysed liver (3%), chickpeas, dried apple pulp, linseed, pumpkin, salmon oil (1%), carrots, potassium chloride, pea flour, dried sea buckthorn (0.2%), dried ginger root (0.1%), dried blueberries (0.1%), dried rosemary (0.1%), dried cranberries (0.1%), dried thyme (0.1%), hydrolysed crustacean shells (source of glucosamine, 0.022%), chicory root (source of fructo-oligosaccharides, 0.0163%), cartilage extract (source of chondroitin, 0.014%), brewer's yeast (source of mannan-oligosaccharides, 0.013%), Mojave yucca (0.0085%).

Against the range

Meat: 26% fresh duck, 10% duck protein; Lamb doubles its fresh share with 26% lamb protein.
Other animals on the label: Pheasant, turkey, beef, salmon; Every recipe carries beef and salmon.
Fat: 17%; 16% to 20% across the four.

Treat the name as the lead pair, not the full cast.

Every recipe opens with 26% fresh meat and builds behind it with concentrated and hydrolysed proteins, converting to 37.8% to 38.9% protein in dry matter. Yellow peas and chickpeas carry the starch, with pea protein and pea flour in support, and there is no grain or white potato.

Beef fat at 10% to 14% and salmon oil at 1% reach every bowl, whatever the front of the bag says. Taurine at 1,500 mg/kg, choline at 2,400 mg/kg and a printed joint stack run through all four. The botanicals sit at 0.2% and below.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

383 kcal/100g

Protein

34%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

7.2%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

37.8%

Fat

18.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

Carbs

32%

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

57%

Carbs

24.4%

Veg

3.3%

Oils

13%

Other

2.2%

Pricing & size