Ci Foods Ci Peptide Plus: Weight Control review

1. Gastro Care 59.0
2. Dental Care 58.0
3. Skin 54.8
4. Weight Control 49.9

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

Gastro Care posts the strongest reading and Weight Control the most modest; transparency is Outstanding right across, fitting for a range sold on knowing what your dog eats.

• Freshly prepared hydrolysed white fish26%
• Potato
• Hydrolysed dried white fish11.5%
• Pea protein, sweet potato
• Salmon oil5.5%
• Lignocellulose, beet pulp, pea fibre5.5%, 4%, 4%Fibre at 8.5% as fed; the lignocellulose bulks without feeding.
• Hydrolysed salmon gravy2.5%
• Minerals, green lipped mussel0.3% musselA nod to joints carrying extra load.
• Marigold

L-carnitine at 1,442mg for fat metabolism, with vitamins A, D3 and E and zinc, iron, manganese, copper and iodine.

Energy

315 kcal per 100g

356 to 381 on the others.

Fat

9%

14.5% to 15.5% elsewhere.

Protein

29%

Held highest in the range to protect muscle.

Fibre

8.5%

2.5% to 5% elsewhere.

The diet build of the four, protein kept high while the weight comes off.

Four grain-free recipes on hydrolysed animal protein, the turkey, salmon and white fish broken into smaller fragments an over-alert immune system is less likely to recognise. The species stay named on every label. Potato and sweet potato supply the starch in all four, and carbohydrate runs from 41.9% to 46.8% of dry matter.

Each version then adds its own toolkit for one job. Cellulose or lignocellulose bulks three of them. On the single-protein question they differ: only Gastro Care keeps to one animal.

Price per kilo

£7.50 (RRP)

Pack

1.5kg Trial Bag, 4 x 1.5kg, 4 x 1.5kg (mixed versions), 10kg Sack (FREE SHIPPING)

A 15kg dog eats

125 to 210 g a day, 170 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£1.28

The maker's chart sets the smallest daily amount of the four here, which keeps the calories down.

Premium end of the market for a dry food, and the price runs ahead of what the analysis shows.