Carnilove

Carnilove Active Adult Large Breed review

Name: Carnilove Active Adult Large Breed
Brand: Carnilove

77/100Excellent

DryAdult

A grain-free recipe for big dogs with real jobs, or at least real energy, and it sits in our Excellent band. Fresh salmon at 26% is matched almost straight away by turkey protein at 24%, so this is a fish-and-bird food. Protein finishes at a muscular 38.9% of dry matter.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large, active adults; the energy level and feeding guide are built around them
Dogs that thrive on fish-led recipes, with salmon leading and salmon oil behind
Joint additions in an active food: glucosamine and chondroitin both declared
Big-breed hearts, with taurine at 1,500 mg/kg
Households avoiding grain, as yellow peas and chickpeas do the binding

Worth watching

Turkey protein nearly matches the salmon, with beef fat behind, so it is a multi-species recipe
Written for adults, so a growing large-breed puppy needs a dedicated growth food

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

How this scores

How we score

77/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large-breed adults. A big or genuinely working dog will eat considerably more than the 15kg figure, so scale from the feeding guide and watch condition.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Carnilove Active Adult Large Breed 77.0

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Heavy protein, restrained carbohydrate and a purposeful additive list earn it; nothing about the recipe reads accidental.

What's in it

Fresh salmon26%For palatability.
Turkey protein24%Already dried, so it gives at least as much finished protein as the headline fish.
Yellow peasBinding, with no grain anywhere.
Beef fat9%The energy, and a third animal.
Turkey hydrolysed protein, hydrolysed liver7%, 3%
Dried apple pulp, pea protein, chickpeas, linseed, pumpkin
Salmon oil1%Marine omega 3.
Carrots, potassium chloride, pea flour
Sea buckthorn, ginger, blueberries, rosemary, cranberries, thyme0.2% down to 0.1%
Crustacean shells, chicory root, cartilage extract, brewer's yeast, Mojave yucca0.022% down to 0.0085%Glucosamine from shellfish and chondroitin from cartilage, small but printed.

Taurine at a serious dose for the heart, choline and a full B vitamin line-up, with zinc, iron, manganese and copper as chelates.

Named ingredients

Fresh salmon (26%), turkey protein (24%), yellow peas, beef fat (9%), turkey hydrolysed protein (7%), dried apple pulp, pea protein, hydrolysed liver (3%), chickpeas, 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

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

370.4 kcal/100g

Protein

35%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

7.2%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

38.9%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

3.9%

Ash

Carbs

32.5%

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

60%

Carbs

21.3%

Veg

6.3%

Oils

10%

Other

2.3%

Pricing & size