Different Dog Health+ Low Purine & Phosphorus review

No company is stronger than gently cooked fresh food, and the typical member of that field sits in our Outstanding band. This recipe joins it there, resting a little above the middle of the field without sitting at the head of it. In that company, that is a fine result and no mark against the label. Protein and processing, nutritional balance, transparency and value all come back Outstanding. No single flattering figure is carrying this one.

Ingredients, as declared: Human-Quality British Turkey Thigh (40%), Atlantic White Fish (20%), Cabbage (12%), Broccoli (9%), Butternut Squash (6%), Carrot (4.5%), Banana (2.5%), Dandelion (1.5%), Flaxseed Oil (1.2%), Nettle (1%), Coconut Oil (0.7%), Ginger (0.5%), Vitamins & Minerals, Chia Seeds (0.3%), Green Tea (0.3%)

Gently cooked is the whole idea here. The ingredients are cooked at food temperatures, not extruded, then packed into pots that live cold. The analysis still carries 74.4% moisture, so what you spoon out is closer to a cooked dinner than to anything put back together with water. Judged on dry matter, where every format can be compared on the same terms, protein converts to 56.3% and fat to 21.9%.

Turkey thigh leads at 40%, described on the label as human quality and British, with Atlantic white fish behind it at 20%. Thigh is the darker, richer cut of the bird, and turkey is generally among the gentler meats for a dog to digest. Between them those two entries account for the 60% animal share of the recipe, and no organ meat appears anywhere on the list. Purines occur naturally in all meat and sit highest in red meat and offal, so the animals chosen here are the light end of that scale, which is plainly what the name is getting at.

The plant side is itemised, not bundled behind a category word. Cabbage takes 12%, broccoli 9%, butternut squash 6% and carrot 4.5%, with banana at 2.5% adding a little natural sweetness. Cooked carrot is easy for a dog to get value from, and it brings vitamin A along with soluble fibre. The whole vegetable fraction is set out line by line.

Carbohydrate is notable mostly by its near absence, the estimate reaching 2.8% as fed and 10.8% of dry matter, with no grain, potato or pulse anywhere to be found. The fats are named as well, flaxseed oil at 1.2% and coconut oil at 0.7%. Chia seeds at 0.3% add a further plant source of omega 3 alongside whatever the white fish brings with it.

A small herbal set closes the composition, with dandelion at 1.5%, nettle at 1%, ginger at 0.5% and green tea at 0.3%, all of them present in seasoning quantities. Green tea earns its line as a source of catechins, the antioxidants it is best known for. The added panel is short and dosed in print: vitamin A at 2500IU, vitamin D3 at 125IU and vitamin E at 50mg per kg. Then zinc at 18mg, iron at 15mg, manganese at 7.5mg and copper at 4.5mg, every one of them a chelate for easier absorption.

£18.40 a kilo, sold in 250g, 600g and 1000g pots.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition gets through around 656 grams of this a day, because a fresh food carries its water with it. That comes to roughly £12.07 a day. The basis is about 840 kcal a day, from the standard maintenance estimate of 110 × bodyweight^0.75.