Feedwell Turbo review

Our reading lands in the Average band, with the middle of the adult dry shelf a step above it in Good. That distance is built almost entirely on naming. A recipe whose first two entries are whole cereal and meat meal gives a reader nothing to check, and protein and processing comes out Poor for that reason. The declared 26% protein and 9% fat are a perfectly sensible pairing for a dog in work. Plenty of active dogs eat food of this kind all their lives and stay in fine shape. The band is a comment on the label's candour, not a warning about the bag.

Ingredients, as declared: Whole Cereal, Meat Meal, Soya Oil, Vitamins and Minerals.

Four entries do the whole job, and the two at the front decide everything. Whole cereal supplies the starch and most of the calories, meat meal supplies the animal protein, and neither is pinned down any further. If you are the sort of owner who researches a food ingredient by ingredient, there is very little here to work with.

Meat meal earns its reputation as a workhorse. Rendering drives the water off animal material and leaves a dry concentrate that holds its protein through the extruder, which is how a list this short still declares 26%. Quality varies from mill to mill and the label gives no clue where in that range this one falls, so the analysis has to speak on its behalf.

Soya oil brings the fat in at 9%. Plant oils lean towards omega 6, while omega 3 comes from marine sources. No fish oil or linseed appears on this list to balance the ledger. A dog with a demanding coat tends to do well with an oily fish topper alongside its dinner.

The supplement panel is printed in full. Vitamin A has a figure of its own, vitamin D is at 1,500 IU per kilo and vitamin E at 80 mg. Then come iron at 333 mg, manganese at 80.64 mg, copper at 16 mg, zinc at 14 mg and sodium selenite at 2.2 mg. Energy works out at an estimated 328 kcal per 100 grams, a little below the 357 typical of adult dry food, so expect a full looking bowl.

£1.27 a kilo in a 15kg bag.

On the standard maintenance estimate, about 840 kcal a day from 110 × bodyweight^0.75, a moderate 15kg adult eats close to 256 grams, which comes to roughly £0.32 a day. The pack's own guide is wider, 250 to 350 grams for dogs from 12kg to 25kg, so start in the middle and keep a hand on the ribs.