Carnilove

Carnilove True Fresh Adult Large Breed review

Name: Carnilove True Fresh Adult Large Breed
Brand: Carnilove

66.8/100Good

DryAdult

A large breed kibble built on fresh duck at 60%, with legumes in place of grain. It lands in our Good band on honest labelling: the duck is named and generous, and the mineral panel is dosed in print. The catch is a starch share that creeps higher than the opening line implies.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Large breed adults, the audience the kibble and feeding plan are built for
Dogs that eat best without cereals
Owners drawn to fresh meat on the label, with nothing hiding behind a meal
Big dogs whose joints deserve a thought: glucosamine and chondroitin are both listed

Worth watching

Beef fat and salmon oil alongside the duck, so no strict single-protein plan
The joint pair at token percentages. A bonus, not a treatment
Carbohydrate at 40.6% of dry matter, the highest in the True Fresh family

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

How this scores

How we score

66.8/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for large breed adults. Our daily figure is for a 15kg dog, so scale it up for a genuinely large one and weigh the first bowls.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Carnilove True Fresh Adult Large Breed 66.8

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Honest labelling earns the place, and a starch load higher than the headline suggests is what holds it there.

What's in it

Fresh duck60%Easily digested and well liked. Mostly water, so protein ends up moderate for the class once it is cooked off.
Yellow peas, chickpeas, red lentils, pea flour3% on the chickpeasWith no dried meat in support, the plant side does more of the work.
Beef fat4%Energy, and a second animal.
Dried apple pulp3.3%Gentle fibre.
Hydrolysed liver3%No species named.
Pumpkin, carrots, linseed2% on the pumpkin
Salmon oil2%Omega 3s.
Egg shells, potassium chlorideEgg shells are a food-derived calcium source.
Sea buckthorn, ginger, blueberries, rosemary, cranberries, thyme0.2% down to 0.1%Honest trace fractions.
Glucosamine and chondroitin sources, chicory root, brewer's yeast, yucca0.022% down to 0.0085%Token levels of the joint pair.

The well dosed supplementation is here, led by taurine at 1,500 mg per kilo with a fully declared trace mineral line.

Beef fat and salmon oil sit beside the duck, so this is not a single-protein recipe.

Named ingredients

Fresh duck (60%), yellow peas, beef fat (4%), dried apple pulp (3.3%), hydrolysed liver (3%), chickpeas (3%), red lentils, pumpkin (2%), 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

Fresh duck leads at 60%, with peas, chickpeas and lentils standing in for grain. Beef fat, salmon oil and hydrolysed liver sit behind the duck, so more than one animal is on the label.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

363 kcal/100g

Protein

27%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

30%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

4.4%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

40.6%

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

18.8%

Veg

Oils

Other

3.6%

Pricing & size