Country Dog

Country Dog Classic Adult 1+: Beef & Rice review

Name: Country Dog Classic Adult 1+: Beef & Rice
Brand: Country Dog

57.1/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

A traditional cereal biscuit in beef and chicken, done tidily. The 31% meat share is printed in two parts, meal and fresh, and even the trace prebiotic and yucca carry their percentages. Maize, barley and rice do most of the carrying. Both flavours sit in our Good band, level with the typical adult dry food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs raised on biscuit and doing well on it
Owners who want the meat share spelled out: 25% meal, 6% fresh
An adult and a senior on one bag
Coats that could use a hand, with flaxseed at 2.5%
Multi-dog homes, with a 15kg bag as well as the 2kg

Worth watching

Carbohydrate at an estimated 52.7% of dry matter, so watch portions on a dog that gains easily
Chicken fat and gravy in both recipes, beef included
Zinc as an oxide, taken up a little less readily than a chelate, which matters most for a dog with skin trouble

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

How this scores

How we score

57.1/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. Moisture is not declared, so treat the dry-matter figures as ballparks and weigh portions.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 57.1
Chicken 56.7

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Squarely mid-shelf: an honest two-part meat declaration, held back by how much of the bag goes to cereal.

What's in it

Beef: beef meal, freshly prepared beef31% (25% and 6%)Most of it as meal, which survives the oven largely intact.
Maize26%The plainest of the three grains, and what lifts the carbohydrate.
BarleyBrings fibre, selenium and copper along with its starch.
Rice16.5%Kind on digestion.
Chicken fatNamed, and chicken, in the beef recipe.
Flaxseed2.5%Plant omega 3. Give a coat several weeks to show it.
Chicken gravy, minerals
Mannan oligosaccharide, yucca extract0.08% and 0.01%A prebiotic, then stool odour.

A complete panel with a figure on every line, in the plainest forms: zinc as an oxide, selenium as sodium selenite.

Chicken fat and chicken gravy are in this recipe, so it is not chicken free.

Named ingredients

Beef 31% (Beef Meal 25%, Freshly Prepared Beef 6%), Maize (26%), Barley, Rice (16.5%), Chicken Fat, Flaxseed (2.5%), Chicken Gravy, Minerals, Prebiotic Mannan Oligosaccharide (0.08%), Yucca Extract (0.01%).

Against the range

Meat: Beef, 31%; Chicken, 31%, in the other
Maize: 26%; 30% in the Chicken
Analysis: Protein 23%, fat 10%; Identical

The lower-cereal of the pair, though not one for a chicken-free dog.

Both bags declare 31% of a named meat, split as 25% meal and 6% freshly prepared. Maize, barley and rice make up the plant side, with rice at 16.5% in each. Chicken fat is the added fat in both and flaxseed at 2.5% supplies plant omega 3. The analyses are identical, and neither label declares moisture, so the dry matter figures assume 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

350 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

10%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

52.7%

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

36.4%

Carbs

55.2%

Oils

4.1%

Other

4.3%

Pricing & size