Carnilove

Carnilove Active Adult: Salmon & Turkey review

Name: Carnilove Active Adult: Salmon & Turkey
Brand: Carnilove

75.3/100Excellent

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

75.3/100Excellent

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

Salmon

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 salmon26%
Yellow peas
Salmon protein15%
Turkey protein, turkey hydrolysed protein10%, 5%
Beef fat10%Beef in a fish recipe.
Hydrolysed liver, pea protein, chickpeas3% liver
Apple pulp, linseed, pumpkin, carrots, pea flour
Salmon oil1%
Sea buckthorn, ginger, berries, herbs0.2% and below
Crustacean shells, cartilage extract, chicory, yeast, yucca

Taurine, choline, the B vitamins and trace minerals, as across the range.

Named ingredients

Fresh salmon (26%), yellow peas, salmon protein (15%), turkey protein (10%), beef fat (10%), turkey hydrolysed protein (5%), hydrolysed liver (3%), pea protein, 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

Lead protein: Salmon, 26% fresh and 15% concentrated; Land animals lead the other three.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 33.2%; The highest of the four.
Fat: 16%; The leanest; venison is 20%.

The fish-forward bag of the four.

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

379.2 kcal/100g

Protein

34%

Fat

16%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

7.2%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

37.8%

Fat

17.8%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

Carbs

33.2%

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

59%

Carbs

24.4%

Veg

3.3%

Oils

11%

Other

2.2%

Pricing & size