Cobbydog Premium Gluten Free Adult & Senior review

A Good band result here matches the band the typical adult dry food earns, and that feels about right for a recipe doing several small things well without one big headline. The lamb is honestly percentaged but arrives as meal rather than fresh meat, three cereals share the starch work, and maize gluten meal lends the protein line a plant-side hand. Set against that, the fat level is generous for an older appetite, the fibre and prebiotic thinking is genuine, and nothing on the label is hiding.

Ingredients, as declared: 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

Lamb meal at 26% shares the top of the list with white rice at 26%. Meal is dried and concentrated, so an inclusion at that level carries real protein into the finished kibble, and lamb itself is a digestible, palatable meat that many sensitive dogs settle on happily. The trade-off of the meal format is bone, which is why ash runs to 8.7% of dry matter.

The gluten free promise refers to wheat, and the list keeps it: rice, whole maize and whole oats do the binding, and none of them carry the gluten protein that troubles wheat-intolerant dogs. The wrinkle is maize gluten meal further down. The name sounds like a contradiction, but maize protein is not true gluten. It is still a plant protein standing where more meat might have stood, and its job is to lift the protein figure.

Poultry oil supplies much of the 15.2% dry matter fat, whole linseed adds plant omega 3, and fish meal brings a marine note lower down. That trio is good news for skin, coat and energy, and worth knowing for exclusivity: with poultry and fish both present, lamb is the lead animal here rather than the only one.

The supporting cast suits the age group. Sugar beet pellets bring soluble and insoluble fibre, brewers yeast contributes B vitamins, the FOS feeds the gut's friendly bacteria, and yucca schidigera is an old kennel remedy aimed at less pungent stools. The trace minerals arrive in standard oxide and sulphate forms, each dosed in print.

£3.88 a kilo, in 3kg and 10kg bags.

Feeding a 15kg adult in moderate condition costs about £0.86 a day at roughly 222 grams, using the standard maintenance figure of around 840 kcal (110 × bodyweight^0.75). For dogs between 15kg and 25kg the bag suggests 240 to 350 grams. Start there and let your dog's condition settle the rest.