Collards Adult Salmon & Potato review

This one earns the Good band honestly. Salmon at 44% is a large declared share for a dry food, and the animal side is one named species from top to bottom. Almost every minor ingredient carries its own percentage instead of hiding in a bracket. The starch is what holds it back, since dried potato, sorghum and barley together take up a substantial part of the recipe and protein settles at 24.2% of dry matter. Measured against the typical adult dry food, which lands in that same band, it holds its place comfortably.

Ingredients, as declared: Salmon 44% (Fresh Salmon 28%, Salmon meal 16%), Dried Potato 12%, Whole Sorghum 11%, Whole Barley 10.5%, Potato Protein 8%, Whole linseed 4%, Sugar Beet Pulp 4%, Sunflower Oil, Monosodium Phosphate, Dried Alfalfa 0.8%, Natural Seaweed Meal 0.4%, Fructo-Oligosaccharide (from chicory root extract 0.25%), Sodium chloride, Potassium chloride, Methionine, Yucca extract 0.01%, L-Carnitine, Marigold extract 0.005%, Rosemary extract 0.005%.

Salmon at 44% is the headline, and the label does the decent thing by breaking it open: 28% fresh salmon and 16% salmon meal. Fresh fish carries a lot of water, and the oven takes most of it away. The meal is what brings the protein through into the finished kibble, and at 16% that is a serious inclusion. Protein lands at 24.2% of dry matter.

Nothing else in this recipe comes from an animal. There is no unnamed fat, no liver digest and no hydrolysate tucked behind a category word. That puts this among the rare labels that can genuinely anchor a single-protein trial for a dog kept on fish.

The plant side opens with dried potato at 12%, then whole sorghum at 11% and whole barley at 10.5%. Sorghum is a gluten free grain with a starch profile close to maize. Barley brings fibre and a slower release but does carry gluten, so the recipe as a whole is not one for a gluten free household. Carbohydrate converts to 51.7% of dry matter.

Potato protein at 8% is worth understanding. It is a concentrated plant protein, there to raise the protein figure. Plant proteins are less complete for a dog than the protein in meat, so read the analysis knowing that a slice of it came from the potato. The salmon is still the bigger contributor by a comfortable margin.

The added fats are whole linseed at 4% and sunflower oil, one bringing plant omega 3 and the other omega 6 with natural vitamin E in tow. Sugar beet pulp at 4% is the fibre, and chicory-derived fructo-oligosaccharide at 0.25% feeds the gut bacteria. L-carnitine appears near the end, an amino acid derivative added to recipes with an eye on how the body uses fat for energy. Marigold and rosemary at 0.005% each are the final flourishes, printed at a size that tells you exactly how much they are doing.

Available in a 2kg resealable bag and a 10kg bag.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needs about 251 grams a day, assuming roughly 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That sum uses an estimated energy figure, not a declared one. The label's table gives 235 grams for the same dog, so weigh the food and let the ribs make the final call.