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Europa Grain Free Small Breed: 53/47 Salmon & Trout review

Name: Europa Grain Free Small Breed: 53/47 Salmon & Trout
Brand: Europa

71.8/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

Grain-free kibble for smaller dogs that puts half the recipe or more into one named animal, in four flavours. The meat headline on every label is split three ways, which is more detail than this kind of bag usually gives. The chicken and the salmon and trout reach our Excellent band; the lamb and the duck read Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Toy and small breeds, the dogs the feeding charts are written for
Dogs kept off cereal, with sweet potato, peas and potato for starch
Rotation: across the four recipes only the animal changes
Label readers who want the meat broken down into fresh, dried and stock
A temperamental digestion, with beet pulp and prebiotics dosed at 96 mg/kg of FOS and 24 mg/kg of MOS

Worth watching

The omega 3 supplement has no named source, so none of the four can be promised fish free
The salmon and trout brings two fish together, which matters when narrowing down to one protein
Feeding charts stop between 10kg and 15kg, so work a bigger dog's portion out from its own weight

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

How this scores

How we score

71.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Written and portioned for small adult dogs. If a larger dog shares the house, check the chart covers its weight before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

53/47 Salmon 71.8
55/45 Chicken 71.4
52/48 Duck 67.5
50/50 Lamb 62.7

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

A large declared meat share, lower carbohydrate than most kibble and labels that show their working lift the chicken and the salmon and trout clear of the other two.

What's in it

Salmon and trout: freshly prepared salmon and trout, dried salmon, salmon oil, salmon stock53% (27%, 20%, 4%, 2%)Two fish. The salmon oil is the range's only named marine omega 3.
Sweet potato22%
Peas9%
Potato, beet pulp, linseed
Minerals, omega 3 supplement, vegetable stock
Asparagus0.3%
FOS, MOS96 mg/kg, 24 mg/kgPrebiotic doses printed on the bag.

Vitamins A and D3 with iron, iodine, manganese, zinc and selenium, each dosed in print.

Named ingredients

Salmon & Trout 53% (including Freshly Prepared Salmon & Trout 27%, Dried Salmon 20%, Salmon Oil 4% & Salmon Stock 2%), Sweet Potato (22%), Peas (9%), Potato, Beet Pulp, Linseed, Minerals, Omega 3 Supplement, Vegetable Stock, Asparagus (0.3%), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Meat: 53% salmon and trout; Land animals on the other three.
Fish oil: Salmon oil, 4%; No named marine oil elsewhere.
Protein, dry matter: 29.3%; 28.3% to 31.5% across the range.

If you want your dog on fish and off land animals, this is the one to pick.

Declared meat runs from 50% in the lamb to 55% in the chicken, and every label splits it into freshly prepared meat, dried meat and stock. The dried share is already near its final weight, while much of the fresh share's water goes in the oven. Protein converts to between 28.3% and 31.5% of dry matter.

Sweet potato, peas and potato do the starch work, with no wheat, rice or maize anywhere, and carbohydrate lands between 39.2% and 43.4% of dry matter. All four carry linseed, beet pulp, the same printed prebiotic doses and an omega 3 supplement with no source named. Only the animal and a trace-level flourish change.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

376 kcal/100g

Protein

27%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.3%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

42.4%

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

49%

Added water

4.8%

Carbs

42.4%

Other

3.8%

Pricing & size