Carnilove

Carnilove Active Adult: Venison & Reindeer & Wild Boar review

Name: Carnilove Active Adult: Venison & Reindeer & Wild Boar
Brand: Carnilove

76.7/100Excellent

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

76.7/100Excellent

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

Venison

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 venison26%
Yellow peas
Reindeer protein14%Rare in any bag.
Beef fat14%The most in the range.
Turkey hydrolysed protein, wild boar protein8%, 4%
Hydrolysed liver, chickpeas3% liver
Linseed, pumpkin, apple pulp, carrots, pea flour
Salmon oil1%
Sea buckthorn, ginger, berries, herbs0.2% and below
Crustacean shells, cartilage extract, chicory, yeast, yucca

The shared additive pack, with taurine at the same hefty dose.

Named ingredients

Fresh venison (26%), yellow peas, reindeer protein (14%), beef fat (14%), turkey hydrolysed protein(8%), wild boar protein (4%), hydrolysed liver (3%), chickpeas, linseed, pumpkin, dried apple pulp, 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

Fat: 20%; The highest in the range; 16% to 18% elsewhere.
Energy: 400 kcal per 100g; 379 to 383 in the others.
Game species: Venison, reindeer, wild boar; One game animal at most elsewhere.

The natural pick for the dog that has already tried everything.

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

400 kcal/100g

Protein

34%

Fat

20%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

7.6%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

37.8%

Fat

22.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.4%

Carbs

28.9%

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

41%

Carbs

21.4%

Veg

4.5%

Oils

15%

Other

18.2%

Pricing & size