Carnilove

Carnilove True Fresh Puppy review

Name: Carnilove True Fresh Puppy
Brand: Carnilove

70.6/100Excellent

DryPuppy

A rich, grain-free growth kibble for every size, and it earns our Excellent band. Beef fat takes energy to 388 kcal per 100g, so this is a bowl for a pup that burns through its day. The quieter strength is the calcium line: declared, and inside the range growing bones want.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Busy, quick-growing puppies. The typical puppy dry food runs at 376 kcal per 100g
Owners who read the calcium line first
Almost any breed, as it is offered from toy to giant
Grain-free feeding, with peas, chickpeas and red lentils in place of cereal
Joint care from the start: glucosamine at 0.022% and chondroitin at 0.014%, both printed

Worth watching

Beef fat and salmon oil inside a duck recipe, and liver with no animal named, so a strict exclusion diet is out
Egg shells on the list, if egg is being kept out
Fat at 21.1% of dry matter. Weigh a calmer pup's portions on scales

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

How this scores

How we score

70.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. The maker's guide runs by expected adult weight, so start from that column and revisit it as the weeks go by.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Carnilove True Fresh Puppy 70.6

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Transparency does much of the lifting, and a lighter starch load than the typical puppy kibble helps it one rung above the middle of the field.

What's in it

Fresh duck60%Weighed before cooking, so its share of the finished kibble is smaller. Easily digested and well liked.
Yellow peasHeads a plant side with no cereal at all.
Beef fat8%Why this runs richer than most growth foods. A second animal on the label.
Hydrolysed liver3%The appetite line. The animal is not named.
Pea protein, pea flourVegetable protein propping up the analysis.
Linseed, salmon oil2% salmon oilOmega 3 from plant and marine sources.
Chickpeas, pumpkin, red lentils, apple pulp, carrots2% down to 1%
Egg shells, potassium chloride, sodium chlorideMuch of the mineral content starts here.
Sea buckthorn, ginger, berries, rosemary, thyme0.2% down to 0.1%Trace-level seasoning.
Crustacean shells, cartilage extract, chicory, brewer's yeast, yucca0.022% down to 0.0085%Glucosamine, chondroitin and two prebiotic fibres, each dosed.

A full vitamin and trace mineral panel, with taurine at 1,500 mg a kilo and tocopherols, ascorbyl palmitate and rosemary extract keeping the fats fresh.

Calcium is declared at 1.56% of dry matter, inside what growth needs.

Named ingredients

Fresh duck (60%), yellow peas, beef fat (8%), hydrolysed liver (3%), pea protein, linseed, chickpeas (2%), pumpkin (2%), salmon oil (2%), red lentils, dried apple pulp (1%), carrots, egg shells, potassium chloride, sodium 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 at 60% leads a grain-free base of yellow peas, chickpeas, pumpkin and red lentils. Beef fat at 8% and salmon oil at 2% put two more animals on the label, and calcium is declared at 1.56% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

388.3 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

19%

Fibre

Ash

7.9%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

33.3%

Fat

21.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

33.5%

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

64%

Carbs

18.8%

Veg

Oils

10%

Other

3.2%

Pricing & size