Ci Foods Ci Lazy Bones: Lamb & Rice review

Good is the reading here, and Good is also where the typical adult dry food finishes, so think of this as par for the field rather than a mark against it. Transparency sits at Outstanding and value at Good, with protein and processing at Average and nutritional balance at Poor. That is a food doing modest things honestly: a fair dried-meat share, familiar grains and no showpiece extras.

Ingredients, as declared: Lamb 28% (including Dried lamb 26% & Lamb gravy 2%), Rice (26%), Oats, Barley, Brewers Yeast, Chicken Fat, Beet Pulp 2%, Minerals, Vitamins, Yucca Schidigera Extract 190mg/kg

Lamb is declared at 28%, and 26% of that is dried lamb, with 2% gravy making up the rest. There is no fresh lamb at all. On a dry food that is less of a loss than it sounds, because dried meat is the form that actually delivers protein to a kibble. The analysis shows 23.9% protein on a dry matter basis.

Rice at 26% heads a grain block of oats and barley, and estimated carbohydrate converts to 52.7% of dry matter against the 46.2% typical for adult dry food. With fat at 9.5% and energy at 345 kcal/100g, under the typical 357, the whole build points at a dog that burns less than it begs.

The chicken fat entry deserves a plain mention: it is there for energy and flavour, it works, and it means a lamb-only reading of the label would be wrong. A dog avoiding chicken in all its forms needs that fact up front.

Brewer's yeast supplies natural B vitamins and beet pulp at 2% covers fibre. Yucca extract at 190 mg/kg is there for stool odour. Selenium arrives as sodium selenite, the basic inorganic form most makers default to; it does the job, though the organic version is generally credited with better uptake.

Ash at 9% and calcium at 2.5% of dry matter are the marks of a dried-meat recipe carrying some bone. Healthy adults take that in their stride; it only becomes a consideration for dogs whose vet has flagged mineral intake.

At £3.33 a kilo, the options are a 2kg trial bag, four 2kg bags together, or a 12kg sack.

Around 243 grams a day suits a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, close to £0.81, taking about 840 kcal as the daily requirement (the standard 110 × bodyweight^0.75 estimate).