Fish4Dogs Superior Senior Complete review

Our Good band is where this one comes out, matching the typical adult dry food. Transparency is the standout at Outstanding with value reading Good, while protein and processing reads Average and nutritional balance Poor. The lift comes from a named fish leading the list, inclusion percentages declared down to two decimal places, and a fat level that looks deliberate. The drag is the carbohydrate share, which is what tends to happen when the fat comes out of a kibble and the starch stays where it was.

Ingredients, as declared: Salmon (26%), Potato (26%), Pea Starch (26%), Salmon Meal (11%), Salmon Oil (2%), Salmon Digest (2%), Pea Fibre (2%), Sunflower Oil, Krill Meal (0.9%), Minerals, Yeast Extract, Malt Extract, Seaweed Meal (0.4%), Algae (0.2%), Spirulina, Green Lipped Mussel Powder (0.02%).

Salmon at 26% heads the list in its fresh form, with salmon meal at 11% behind it. That dried share is noticeably smaller than in the brand's standard adult recipe, and the analysis follows suit. Protein is declared at 22.0%, which works out at 23.9% of dry matter once the water is accounted for.

Potato and pea starch both sit at 26%, so the plant base is unusually even and unusually large, and estimated carbohydrate reaches 57.1% of dry matter. Pea fibre at 2% handles the roughage, with no beet pulp in this recipe at all. Crude fibre is declared at 3.5%, or 3.8% of dry matter, which gives an older gut something steady to work with.

Fat is the real change. Salmon oil drops to 2% and declared fat to 7.0%, genuinely low for a dry food, which is why energy lands at 340 kcal per 100 grams against 357 for the typical adult dry food. For a dog who has stopped burning what they used to burn, that restraint is exactly what is wanted.

Salmon digest at 2% keeps the flavour up, and flavour matters far more at twelve than it did at three. Yeast extract and malt extract sit alongside doing similar work, though neither is given a percentage of its own.

Krill meal, seaweed meal, algae, spirulina and green lipped mussel powder all repeat from the adult recipe at the same modest inclusions, finishing at 0.02% for the mussel. Read them as pleasant additions rather than as a joint programme. Taurine at 1 g and iodine at 1.6 mg are the two additives given real numbers.

One thing the label omits is moisture, so the dry matter conversions on this page assume 8%, the standard working figure for a kibble. It changes nothing material, but it is an estimate rather than a declaration and deserves to be read as one.

£7.08 a kilo, sold in 1.5kg, 6kg and 12kg bags.

Taking the standard maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal a day for a 15kg adult in moderate condition, which is 110 × bodyweight^0.75, feeding comes to roughly 247 grams and £1.75 a day. The label asks 215 to 223 grams for a 16kg dog, so bag and estimate land within a scoop of one another.