Forthglade

Forthglade Complete Meal Grain Free Puppy: Chicken with Liver review

Name: Forthglade Complete Meal Grain Free Puppy: Chicken with Liver
Brand: Forthglade

81.8/100Outstanding

WetPuppy

Flavour

A tray-fed growth food built on one meat at a time, chicken or lamb at 71% with its own liver behind it. The plant share is small and cereal is absent altogether. Both recipes land in our Outstanding band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies kept to one meat at a time
Grain-free households
Fussy pups who eat better from a tray, with 75% meat and liver in front of them
Gut support that does something: chicory root extract at 0.45%
Early joint care, with glucosamine and chondroitin printed at 50 mg/kg each

Worth watching

Salmon oil in both, so neither suits a pup that must stay off fish
No calcium figure on the label. Ask the maker if your pup will be a big one
Fat-rich for wet food, so portion to the growth chart, not to appetite

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

How this scores

How we score

81.8/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Use the pack chart for your pup's weight, check the ribs as they grow, and get the calcium figure first for a large or giant breed.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 81.8
Lamb 80.2

All two Outstanding. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Both pull clear of an already strong wet puppy field, and the whole label carries them there, with no single figure doing the work.

What's in it

Chicken71%
Chicken liver4%The most nutrient-dense thing in the tray: vitamin A, vitamin B12 and copper.
Sweet potato4%
Carrots, peas2% each
Minerals
Chicory root extract0.45%Inulin for the friendly bacteria; a real inclusion.
Salmon oil, linseed oil0.25% eachMarine and plant omega together. The salmon oil puts fish on the allergen picture.
Dried seaweed, herbs0.12% herbsIodine among a broad mineral spread; the herbs are seasoning.
Glucosamine, chondroitin50mg/kg eachModest, with doses attached.
Yucca extract0.005%

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc, iron and copper as chelates, the more readily absorbed form, and iodine as calcium iodate.

No calcium figure on the label. For a large or giant breed pup, ask Forthglade for it.

Named ingredients

Chicken (71%), Chicken Liver (4%), Sweet Potato (4%), Carrots (2%), Peas (2%), Minerals, Chicory Root Extract (0.45%), Salmon Oil (0.25%), Linseed Oil (0.25%), Dried Seaweed*, Herbs (Parsley, Rosemary, Nettle, Camomile) (0.12%), Glucosamine (50mg/kg), Chondroitin (50mg/kg), Yucca Extract (0.005%). *natural ingredient

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 71%, chicken liver 4%; Lamb and lamb liver at the same shares
Protein, dry matter: 44.0%; 38.0% on the lamb
Fat, dry matter: 40.0%; 32.0% on the lamb
Carbohydrate, dry matter: Nothing at all, on our estimate; 10.0% on the lamb

The richer tray of the two: effectively meat and liver with a small vegetable share.

Two puppy trays on the same recipe: the named meat at 71% with its own liver at 4%, then sweet potato at 4% and carrots and peas at 2% apiece, with no cereal. Chicory root extract, seaweed, salmon and linseed oils and a printed joint pairing follow on both.

The vitamin and chelated trace element panel is identical and dosed in print. Moisture is declared at 75%, so the dry matter figures rest on a printed number. What varies is the meat, and with it how rich the tray is.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

123.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11%

Fat

10%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

3.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

44%

Fat

40%

Fibre

Ash

14%

Carbs

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

75%

Added water

9.6%

Carbs

Veg

4.4%

Oils

0.5%

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size