Cobbydog

Cobbydog Premium Gluten Free Adult & Senior review

Name: Cobbydog Premium Gluten Free Adult & Senior
Brand: Cobbydog

53/100Good

DryAdult

A gently built gluten-free kibble for the second half of a dog's life, in our Good band. Lamb meal at 26% leads, honestly percentaged, and the fibre and prebiotic thinking behind it is genuine. Nothing on the label is hiding.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs and settled adults, the two audiences on the bag
Dogs that react to wheat. Rice, maize and oats carry the starch
Feeding for digestion, with beet pulp fibre and FOS
Dogs that get on well with lamb as the main meat

Worth watching

Poultry oil and fish meal lower down, so not for a single-protein elimination trial
Maize gluten meal mid-list, a plant protein topping up the protein figure
Ash at 8.7% of dry matter, a shade high

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

How this scores

How we score

53/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Sold for adults and seniors. For dogs between 15kg and 25kg the bag suggests 240 to 350 grams a day; start there and let condition settle the rest.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Cobbydog Premium Gluten Free Adult & Senior 53.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Several small things done well and no single headline, which lands it about where it should be.

What's in it

Lamb meal26%Dried and concentrated, so real protein. The bone in meal is why ash runs high.
White rice26%
Whole maizeNo gluten of the wheat kind.
Poultry oilSupplies much of the fat. A second animal.
Whole oats
Sugar beet pelletsSoluble and insoluble fibre.
Maize gluten mealMaize protein, not true gluten, standing where more meat might have stood.
Whole linseed, brewers yeastPlant omega 3 and B vitamins.
Fish mealA marine note, and a third animal.
FOS, yucca schidigera extractPrebiotic, and an old kennel remedy for less pungent stools.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium in standard oxide and sulphate forms, each dosed.

Lamb leads, but poultry oil and fish meal are also on the list.

Named ingredients

Lamb Meal 26% White Rice 26%, Whole Maize, Poultry Oil, Whole Oats, Sugar Beet Pellets, Maize Gluten Meal, Whole Linseed, Brewers Yeast, Fish Meal, Fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS), Extract of Yucca Schidigera. Additives: Antioxidants

Against the range

Lamb meal and white rice share the top of the list at 26% each, with whole maize and whole oats behind and no wheat. Poultry oil carries most of the fat, at 15.2% of dry matter, with linseed and fish meal lower down. Moisture is not declared, so dry matter figures assume 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

379 kcal/100g

Protein

22%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

23.9%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

49.5%

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

27.5%

Carbs

58.5%

Oils

10.1%

Other

3.8%

Pricing & size