Eukanuba Adult Medium Breed review

Our Good band is where this food comes out, and the typical adult dry food comes out there too. Protein and processing reads Average, nutritional balance a step up at Good, transparency Outstanding. That is a fair summary: a respectable named-meat share, a grain-led base, and a label that declares most, though not all, of what an owner would want to know. It is a steady middle-of-the-field food rather than a headline maker, and for plenty of dogs that is precisely the job.

Ingredients, as declared: dried chicken and turkey (25% including chicken 18%, a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin and taurine), fresh chicken (16%), barley, maize, wheat, poultry fat, sorghum, oats, dried beet pulp (3%), chicken gravy, minerals (including sodium hexametaphosphate 0.35%), fructooligosaccharides (0.25%, a natural prebiotic), dried whole egg.

Named poultry does the heavy lifting. Dried chicken and turkey come in at 25%, chicken itself is pinned at 18% of the total, and fresh chicken sits at 16% behind that. The water has already gone from dried meat, so it carries more protein per gram than fresh does. The analysis reflects that, with protein converting to 29.7% of dry matter.

Five grains follow: barley, maize, wheat, sorghum and oats. That is an unapologetically cereal-based construction, though the carbohydrate estimate converts to 44.1% of dry matter, a touch under the 46.2% typical for adult dry food. Sorghum and oats are the gentler pair of the five, while wheat and maize are the ones to note if your dog has any history with grain.

The most distinctive entry is sodium hexametaphosphate at 0.35%, a mineral that binds the calcium in saliva and slows the hardening of plaque into tartar. It is a dental-chew trick built into the kibble itself, and the label prints its dose.

Dried beet pulp at 3% supplies the fibre, fructooligosaccharides at 0.25% add a prebiotic for the gut, and dried whole egg closes the list with a small but high-quality protein top-up. Chicken gravy is there for flavour, a palatant by another name, and an honest one in that it names its animal.

The label credits the dried chicken as a natural source of glucosamine, chondroitin and taurine. That is fair as chemistry, but no doses are printed, so treat it as a welcome bonus rather than a joint plan. Among the added extras, L-carnitine at 50mg per kilo is the entry of note, a compound involved in turning fat into energy, alongside a fully dosed vitamin and trace-element panel.

It comes in 3kg, 12kg and 15kg bags.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition gets through roughly 232 grams a day, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate).