Dr John

Dr John Silver: Beef with Vegetables review

Name: Dr John Silver: Beef with Vegetables
Brand: Dr John

42.1/100Average

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

Two light, low fat everyday kibbles for adult and senior dogs, both in our Average band. That reading is about how thin the animal share is, and much less about the bowl in front of your dog. Wheat leads each recipe, with a meat meal declaring 11% chicken or beef behind it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Less active adults and seniors, with fat at 6.0%
Dogs that have eaten wheat all their lives without bother
Several dogs of different sizes on one bag
A choice of poultry or beef on the same build

Worth watching

Wheat first in both, so a wheat intolerance rules them out
Neither meal names its species beyond the 11%, and the beef carries chicken too
A dog in real work will want more fat than these give

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

How this scores

How we score

42.1/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyAverage

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. The labels put a dog of 10kg to 20kg on 200 to 370 grams, and condition tells you more than the chart.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Dr John Silver 42.6
Beef 42.1

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

A cereal-led food with a meat contribution, still serviceable for a small, steady, older dog and honest about being simple.

What's in it

Wheat
Meat meal11% beefThe rest of the meal unidentified.
Vegetables4% peasPeas move up to third with no maize here.
Chicken fat, chicken gravyChicken in a beef recipe.
Minerals
Linseed
Yucca extract

Moisture is not declared, so the dry matter figures are worked from an assumed 8%.

Named ingredients

Wheat, meat meal (11% beef), vegetables (4% peas), chicken fat, chicken gravy, minerals, linseed, yucca extract.

Against the range

Meat: Meat meal, 11% beef; Poultry meal with 11% chicken in the original.
Maize: None; Third in the original.
Ash, dry matter: 7.6%; 5.5% in the original.

A change of headline animal, though the chicken fat and gravy mean it cannot stand as beef only.

Both recipes open on wheat and put a dried meat meal second, each declaring 11% of its named animal with the rest of the meal unidentified. Peas at 4% sit inside a vegetables heading, and linseed and yucca extract close both lists.

Fat is 6.0% in each, protein converts to under 20% of dry matter and carbohydrate to 63.6% to 65.4%. The beef adds chicken fat and chicken gravy, so poultry runs through both.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

318.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18%

Fat

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

19.6%

Fat

6.5%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

63.6%

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

35.4%

Carbs

42.7%

Veg

10.8%

Oils

5.9%

Other

5.1%

Pricing & size