Darf

Darf Complete Adult Dry Light review

Name: Darf Complete Adult Dry Light
Brand: Darf

69.4/100Good

Cold pressedAdultSenior

A Good cold-pressed pellet for a dog that would happily carry a few kilos more than the vet would like. Fat is dialled right back, so energy stops at 292 kcal per 100g. Even so, the meat share reaches 60%, and every one of its nine parts has a figure beside it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog carrying more weight than its frame wants
Owners who want a fuller-looking bowl for the same day's energy
Older dogs slowing down. The label covers adults and seniors
Rotation feeders, with beef, chicken, lamb and goat on one list
Anyone who likes offal counted: heart, lung, liver and tripe each measured

Worth watching

Four animals on the list, so no use for an exclusion diet
Millet at 10% rules out a cereal-free plan
Krill at 5% brings seafood into a land-meat recipe

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

How this scores

How we score

69.4/100Good

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. A dog being fed to lose condition gets less than the maintenance figure, so set the target weight with your vet first.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Darf Complete Adult Dry Light 69.4

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A fully itemised meat block lifts the score, and the Poor nutritional balance is the honest cost of taking this much fat out.

What's in it

Beef meat, chicken necks12% eachThe necks are bone-in, which is where much of the mineral content comes from.
Beef tripe9%Ruminant stomach, very kind to the gut. A real inclusion at this level.
Lamb, goat and chicken meat6% each
Beef heart, lung, liver3% eachThe vitamin-dense parts muscle meat alone cannot supply.
Raw dried carrot, raw dried apple10% eachFibre, and part of what replaces the fat.
Millet10%The grain: gluten free and easily digested.
Krill5%A generous marine omega source for a recipe like this.
Coconut oil2%
Nettle, water1%, 0.5%

A vitamin and mineral supplement at 0.5%, with no individual doses printed.

Calcium converts to 1.41% of dry matter, a sound adult figure.

Named ingredients

60% meat (12% beef meat, 12 % chicken necks, 9% beef tripe, 6% lamb meat, 6% goat meat, 6% chicken meat, 3% beef heart, 3% beef lung, 3% beef liver), 10% raw dried carrot, 10% raw dried apple, 10% millet, 5% krill, 2% coconut oil, 1% nettle, 0.5% water

Against the range

One cold-pressed light recipe. Its 60% meat share is split into nine measured entries from four animals, with tripe and organs among them. Millet, carrot and apple at 10% each fill the space the fat has left, and krill brings seafood to a land-meat list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

292 kcal/100g

Protein

20%

Fat

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

6.9%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

20.8%

Fat

7.3%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

61.8%

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

66%

Added water

0.5%

Carbs

10.2%

Veg

21.3%

Oils

Pricing & size