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Flourish Grain Free Working and Sporting Dog: Beef, Sweet Potato and Carrot review

Name: Flourish Grain Free Working and Sporting Dog: Beef, Sweet Potato and Carrot
Brand: Flourish

70.6/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

Four grain-free recipes for dogs that earn their dinner, reading Good up to Excellent, with the beef the strongest. Three are built the same way around 50% of one named animal. The duck is the outlier, put together around potato with duck as the only animal on the list.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working and sporting dogs. Every recipe is built for output
Rotation feeders, with four named animals on one shelf
Dogs kept off cereal
Owners who want the meat pinned to a species, not a category
Dogs that struggle to keep condition, at 350 to 375 kcal per 100g

Worth watching

An unsourced omega 3 supplement in the beef and turkey, so neither is a guaranteed fish free bowl
Adult labels only, so a growing puppy needs a growth recipe
Energy dense, so pull portions back in a week when the work stops

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

How this scores

How we score

70.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Real work pushes a dog's need above the feeding guide, so weigh the bowl and watch condition through the season.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Beef 70.6
Turkey 67.8
Salmon 65.1
Duck 61.0

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

The three recipes that declare half the bag as one animal finish higher, and the beef climbs a band clear of the rest.

What's in it

Freshly prepared Angus beef28%Goes in wet and comes out of the oven lighter
Dried beef, beef fat19%, 3%The dried share counts for more in the finished bag than its place suggests
Sweet potato26%
Potato, peas7.5% (peas)
Linseed, beet pulpPlant omega 3 and fibre
Minerals, omega 3 supplementThe supplement has no source given
Vegetable stock, carrot<0.1% (carrot)Frankly trace
FOS, MOS96 mg/kg, 24 mg/kg

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium each dosed.

Named ingredients

Beef 50% (including Freshly Prepared Angus Beef 28%, Dried Beef 19% & Beef Fat 3%), Sweet Potato (26%), Potato, Peas (7.5%), Linseed, Beet Pulp, Minerals, Omega 3 Supplement, Vegetable Stock, Carrot (<0.1%), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 31.5%; 28.3% on the other three
Fat, dry matter: 14.1%; 12.0% on the other three
Carbohydrate: 43.5%; 46.7% to 48.2%
Calcium, dry matter: 1.09%; 1.52% to 2.07%

The meatiest of the four, with the lightest plant side and the most moderate calcium.

Beef, salmon and turkey share one shape: half the bag declared as the named animal, the fresh and dried shares printed, and sweet potato, peas and potato underneath. The duck is built to its own plan, 36% duck arriving almost all as dried duck, with potato in place of sweet potato and no omega 3 supplement.

No recipe carries wheat, rice or maize. Fat runs from 12.0% of dry matter to 14.1% in the beef, protein from 28.3% to 31.5%, and the carbohydrate estimate from 43.5% to 48.2%. The omega 3 supplement in the other three has no source given.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

371 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

43.5%

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

50%

Added water

0.9%

Carbs

44.3%

Veg

0.3%

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size