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Europa Super Food 65/35: Italian Buffalo review

Name: Europa Super Food 65/35: Italian Buffalo
Brand: Europa

81.4/100Outstanding

DryAdult

Flavour

Eight grain-free kibbles that put 65% into the animal and say so in the name, from Angus beef to Italian buffalo. Each label splits its meat into fresh and dried shares, so the headline is never one vague number. Five sit in our Excellent band, the buffalo in Outstanding, and the lamb and duck in Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want most of the bowl to be meat
Dogs kept off cereal
Rotation feeders, with eight animals to move between
Active dogs: protein reaches 44.0% of dry matter on the turkey
Owners watching the plant load

Worth watching

The turkey recipe includes pork at 22%
The buffalo also carries dried beef and dried lamb
Seven labels give no percentages for the plant side

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

How this scores

How we score

81.4/100Outstanding

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The maker's chart puts a 15kg dog at 175 to 195 grams a day; check the calcium figure on the lamb or duck if your dog has had urinary stones.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Buffalo

The score, in context

Italian Buffalo 81.4
Free Range Turkey 77.3
Scottish Salmon Light 73.7
British Free Range Chicken 73.0
Angus Beef 72.4
Scottish Salmon 72.4
English Country Duck 69.2
British Grass Fed Lamb 68.0

Eight recipes across Outstanding and Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Most of the line clears the typical dry food on its meat share and low carbohydrate, the buffalo leads, and elsewhere your dog's taste in meat can settle it.

What's in it

Freshly prepared Italian buffalo35%
Dried beef, dried lamb14.5%, 10%Two more animals behind the buffalo.
Lamb fat, lamb gravy4%, 1.5%
Sweet potato, beansThe only label here to name its starch.
Dried superfood blend: basil, blackberry, turmeric, flaxseed, appleeach equivalent to 4% fresh
Beet pulp, omega 3 supplement, minerals
FOS, MOS192 mg/kg, 48 mg/kgThe gut work, dosed in print.
Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphate170, 170, 125 mg/kgJoint doses in print.
Olive extract0.01%

Buffalo, beef and lamb: three animals, not one.

Named ingredients

65% Buffalo, Lamb & Beef (35% Freshly Prepared Italian Buffalo, 14.5% Dried Beef, 10% Dried Lamb, 4% Lamb Fat, 1.5% Lamb Gravy), Sweet Potato, Beans, Dried Superfood Blend* (including Basil, Blackberry, Turmeric, Flaxseed, Apple - *each equivalent to 4% fresh ingredients), Beet Pulp, Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 192 mg/kg), Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 48 mg/kg), Olive Extract (0.01%)

Against the range

Animals: Buffalo, beef, lamb; One animal on most others.
Ingredient list: Full conventional list; A chart of unweighted plant names on the other seven.
Supplements: Joint and prebiotic doses printed; None listed on the others.
Band: Outstanding; The only one in the range.

The strongest of the eight, and the most open label in the range.

Every recipe splits 65% animal and 35% plant. The animal share is 35% freshly prepared meat plus a dried share, so the meat leads in the bag as well as on the front. No cereal appears in any recipe, and carbohydrate runs from 20.7% to 38.6% of dry matter against 46.2% typical for adult dry food.

Seven labels give the plant side as a chart of named items without percentages; the buffalo prints a full list with dosed joint and prebiotic extras. The turkey and buffalo carry more than one animal, and calcium varies widely, from 1.2% to 2.61% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

362 kcal/100g

Protein

36%

Fat

16%

Fibre

5.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

39.1%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

27.7%

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

78.7%

Carbs

17.2%

Other

4.1%

Pricing & size