Darf

Darf Complete Adult Dry: Lamb review

Name: Darf Complete Adult Dry: Lamb
Brand: Darf

77.4/100Excellent

Cold pressedAdultSenior

Flavour

Cold-pressed recipes on one lamb base that differ only in how much fish goes in. The Lamb and the Salmon reach our Excellent band and the North Sea Fish sits a step behind in Good. It feeds and stores like dry food, without the freezer routine frozen raw asks for.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that get on with lamb, the lead meat in all three
Seeing muscle meat, bone and organs each given a figure
Adults and older dogs, toy to giant
Oily fish in the bowl without a fish-only food
A label short enough to read in one go

Worth watching

Millet, krill and egg in all three, so none suits a cereal-free, seafood-free or egg-free plan
Lamb on both fish labels
Carbohydrate above half of every recipe, so weigh portions for a dog kept trim

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

How this scores

How we score

77.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. The analysis suits an ordinary walk in the diary, not a working dog, so weigh portions against your dog's routine.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Lamb 77.4
Salmon 72.7
North Sea Fish 69.6

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Even the third-placed recipe holds level with its category middle, so pick on the animal.

What's in it

Lamb meat42%The one animal, itemised from muscle to organ.
Lamb bone9%Ground bone does the mineral work.
Lamb organs6%
Eggs3%
Raw dried carrot15%Pressed, not baked, so raw means raw.
Raw apple14%Fruit-forward: soluble fibre and natural sugars.
Millet5%The grain, and a gentle one with no gluten.
Krill2%Marine omega fats.
Coconut oil, nettle2%, 1%

The only label with a full panel: vitamins A, D3, E, K2 and the B group, plus organic selenium at 0.18mg.

Named ingredients

60% meat (42% lamb meat, 9% lamb bone, 6% lamb organs, 3% eggs), 15% raw dried carrot, 14% raw apple, 5% millet, 2% krill, 2% coconut oil, 1% nettle. 57% meat (42% lamb meat, 9% lamb bone, 6% lamb organs), 3% eggs, 15% raw dried carrot, 14% raw apple, 5% millet, 2% krill, 2% coconut oil, 1% nettle

Against the range

Meat: Lamb 42%, bone, organs; The fish recipes cut lamb meat to 18%.
Protein, dry matter: 26.6%; The highest; North Sea Fish 24.7%.
Vitamin panel: Printed in full; The others give a 0.5% supplement only.

The strongest of the trio and the one label that lets you read the doses.

One cold-pressed skeleton with lamb as the constant: meat, bone and organs each given a figure, and the two fish recipes handing 24% of the label to North Sea fish or salmon. Behind the meat every recipe runs eggs at 3%, raw dried carrot at 15%, raw apple at 14%, millet at 5%, krill and coconut oil at 2% each and nettle at 1%.

Calcium comes from ground bone and lands near 1.35% of dry matter on all three. Protein runs 24.7% to 26.6% and fat 9.8% to 10.6% of dry matter, a moderate food. Carbohydrate estimates at 53.9% to 55.6%, the consequence of fruit and vegetables taking almost a third of the recipe.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

394 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

10%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

5.9%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.6%

Fat

10.6%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

6.3%

Carbs

53.9%

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

48.2%

Carbs

7.1%

Veg

41.8%

Oils

2.8%

Pricing & size