Carnilove

Carnilove True Fresh Adult: Duck review

Name: Carnilove True Fresh Adult: Duck
Brand: Carnilove

69/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Fresh meat and nothing dried behind it, repeated across four animals. Three recipes sit in our Good band and the beef climbs one step into Excellent. Egg shells supply the calcium, and a string of berries and herbs closes every label.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who prefer fresh meat to meat meal
Dogs bored of chicken. Beef, duck and turkey each get their own recipe
Rotation feeding, since only the lead animal changes between bags
Grain-free homes: peas, chickpeas and lentils do the cereal's job

Worth watching

Beef fat, salmon oil and egg in every recipe, so none isolates one animal for an elimination trial
No dried meat behind the fresh, so protein is solid without being high

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

How this scores

How we score

69/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs. The glucosamine comes from crustacean shells, so check the label for a dog that reacts to shellfish.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Beef 70.1
Turkey 69.7
Duck 69.0
Fish 62.6

Four recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The beef edges ahead by a whisker, so pick by flavour; all four are held up by named fresh meat and a fully dosed panel.

What's in it

Fresh duck60%A fattier, distinctly flavoured bird, still uncommon in dry food.
Yellow peasLead the plant side, standing in for grain.
Beef fat5%In every recipe, so beef is on every label.
Hydrolysed liver3%The palatant, and a big part of why fussy dogs take to it.
Chickpeas, pumpkin, red lentils3%, 3%, unstated
Dried apple pulp, salmon oilSalmon oil at 2% brings the omega 3s.
Linseed, egg shells, 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%Trace joint and gut entries. The glucosamine comes from shellfish.

A fully dosed vitamin and mineral panel, taurine at 1,500 mg per kilo among it.

Named ingredients

Fresh duck (60%), yellow peas, beef fat (5%), hydrolysed liver (3%), chickpeas (3%), pumpkin (3%), red lentils, dried apple pulp (2.3%), salmon oil (2%), linseed, carrots, egg shells, 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: Fresh duck 60%; Beef, turkey, or fish with turkey on the others.
Protein, dry matter: 31.1%; Lowest; the beef is 33.3%.
Dried apple pulp: 2.3%; 1.3% on the beef.

A real change of bird for a dog tired of mainstream poultry.

Every recipe starts with fresh meat at 60% (or fish 34% and turkey 26%), with no meat meal on any label. Fresh meat is mostly water, so dry-matter protein finishes between 31.1% and 33.3%. Yellow peas, chickpeas and red lentils replace grain, and carbohydrate runs 37.2% to 38.6% of dry matter, below the 46.2% typical.

Beef fat at 5%, salmon oil at 2%, egg shells and hydrolysed liver appear in all four. Only the lead animal changes.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

370 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

16%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

31.1%

Fat

17.8%

Fibre

4.2%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

38.6%

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

64.6%

Carbs

18.1%

Veg

6.9%

Oils

Other

3.4%

Pricing & size