Cobbydog Supreme Chunks review

Set against the Good band where the typical adult dry food sits, this one reads Average in our scoring, and the label explains itself without much digging. Wheat opens the recipe, the two beef entries come to a modest share of the bowl, and the glucose and colourants give nothing back nutritionally. For a settled dog with an easy stomach it still feeds perfectly well, and the beef that is in there is named rather than tucked behind a category word.

Ingredients, as declared: Wheat, Protein Pellets Containing Beef Meat Meal 16%, Dehydrated Beef 10%, Chicken Oil 2%, Glucose, Soya Oil, Additives: Colourants, Antioxidants

Wheat leads, which tells you where the bulk of the biscuit comes from. Beef then arrives twice, as meat meal held inside protein pellets at 16% and as dehydrated beef at 10%. Both of those are already dry, so what the label prints is close to what survives into the finished chunk. Meat meal is the ground, rendered protein from the parts of the animal we do not eat, concentrated and dependable, and protein finishes at 23.9% of dry matter.

Wheat is the least fashionable grain in dog food, and it does account for a fair share of the cereal intolerances owners run into. A dog that has eaten biscuit for years without a flicker is unlikely to start reacting here. Carbohydrate estimated at 55.0% of dry matter, against 46.2% for a typical adult dry food, shows how much of the work the grain is doing.

Chicken oil at 2% and soya oil supply the fat, which lands at 9.8% of dry matter, a gentle level that suits an ordinary day rather than a working one. The chicken oil naming its bird is more than many labels manage, and soya oil is a refined fat that carries almost none of the bean protein soya is usually argued about.

Glucose is there for taste and the colourants are there for the look of the food in the bowl, which is a decision made for the person holding the scoop. The antioxidants alongside them are the useful part of that group, keeping the fats from turning across the life of the bag.

The declared supplement panel is short and clear: vitamin A at 9000 iu, vitamin D3 at 890 iu and vitamin E at 35 iu, with no trace mineral doses printed beside them. Calcium is not declared either, so this is an adult and senior bag, not one to build a growing large-breed puppy on.

£2.46 a kilo, sold in 3kg and 15kg bags.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition eats about 236 grams a day, assuming around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That comes to roughly £0.58 a day. The label's own table steps from 230 grams at 13.5kg straight up to 450 grams at 22.5kg, so let the waistline decide where in that gap your dog belongs.