Country Dog

Country Dog Premium Grain Free Adult 1+: Salmon & Sweet Potato review

Name: Country Dog Premium Grain Free Adult 1+: Salmon & Sweet Potato
Brand: Country Dog

69.5/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

Two single-animal recipes, a bird or a fish, both in our Good band. The salmon bag goes furthest at 45% salmon on a sweet potato base, against 35% chicken in the other. Each label prints its percentages down to the cranberry.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners steering clear of cereal. Potato and sweet potato do all the carrying
Dogs fed one animal at a time
A house feeding an adult and an older dog, as both labels cover adult and senior
Dogs who could do with some joint help, with glucosamine and chondroitin declared
A dog that has gone off poultry and can move across to the salmon

Worth watching

Zinc on unnamed protein hydrolysates in both bags, so neither is watertight for a strict elimination trial
Fish from first ingredient to last in the salmon recipe
Chicken fat at 7% in the chicken bag, which keeps it firmly poultry

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

How this scores

How we score

69.5/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. If your dog has reacted to fish or poultry before, pick the bag that avoids it and check the fat source too.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Salmon 69.5
Chicken 64.3

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The salmon reads a shade ahead of the chicken because it declares more animal and asks less of its potato.

What's in it

Salmon: salmon meal, freshly prepared salmon45% (35% and 10%)The biggest animal share in the pair.
Sweet potato30%
Potato9%
Rapeseed oil4%The fat source, so the bag stays clear of land meat.
Pea starch, beet pulp4% each
Flaxseed2%
Lucerne, minerals, carrot, tomato powder, seaweedSeaweed for iodine.
Herbs0.1%Not named, so read them as seasoning.
Yucca extract, cranberry, glucosamine, chondroitin, yeast

Zinc as an oxide and as a chelate of protein hydrolysates, with selenium as sodium selenite.

Fish runs from first ingredient to last, so skip it for a dog with a past reaction to fish.

Named ingredients

Salmon 45% (Salmon Meal 35%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 10%), Sweet Potato (30%), Potato (9%), Rapeseed Oil (4%), Pea Starch (4%), Beet Pulp (4%), Flaxseed (2%), Lucerne, Minerals, Carrot, Tomato Powder, Seaweed, Herbs (0.1%), Yucca Extract (0.02%), Cranberry (0.01%), Glucosamine (0.0088%), Chondroitin (0.0035%), Yeast.

Against the range

Meat: 45% salmon; 35% chicken in the other bag
Protein, dry matter: 29.7%; 27.2% in the chicken
Fat source: Rapeseed oil; Chicken fat in the chicken

The stronger of the two on our scoring, and the clean choice for a dog off land meat.

Two grain-free recipes, each holding to one animal from top to bottom: chicken in one bag, salmon in the other. Both print the split between dried meal and freshly prepared meat, and the meal is the bigger share in each. Potato and sweet potato do the binding with no cereal on either list, and beet pulp adds soft fibre.

Both declare glucosamine and chondroitin and carry seaweed, yucca and cranberry at 0.01%. In both, part of the zinc rides on protein hydrolysates that name no species. What varies is the meat share, the fat source and the energy.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

326.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

27%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.7%

Fat

11%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

11%

Carbs

46.1%

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

45%

Carbs

47%

Veg

0.7%

Oils

Other

3.3%

Pricing & size