GAIN Elite Big Dogs: Adult review

1. Puppy 52.3
2. Adult Salmon 51.5
3. Adult 49.6
4. Light 48.1
5. Senior 44.6

Five recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

A named dried meat opens each list at a useful share, and how much of the bowl the cereals then carry decides where each recipe lands.

• Dried chicken and turkeymin 24%Dried meat first, so the protein survives the oven. The two birds are declared together.
• Ricemin 20%Sits easily with most dogs.
• Wholegrain maize, dehulled oatsOats are digestible once cooked and a good source of fibre.
• Poultry fat
• Maize gluten mealA milling leftover that raises the protein percentage with plant protein.
• Dried sugar beet pulp, chicory FOSFOS min 0.3%Fibre, and a prebiotic that feeds the bacteria already in the gut.
• Hydrolysed chicken proteinMakes the kibble taste of chicken.
• Fishmeal, linseed, salmon oil, whole dried eggsFish here means the recipe is not fish free.
• Minerals, potassium chloride, sodium chloride
• TruCal milk mineral complex, MSM, glucosamine hydrochloride1000 mg/kg, 300 mg/kg eachCalcium and phosphorus in a dairy form, then the printed joint pair.

Meat

Dried chicken and turkey, min 24%

Same on the puppy, 23% on the light, 18% on the senior, salmon on the fifth.

Protein, dry matter

25.0%

Matched by the salmon; 29.3% on the puppy, 21.7% on the senior.

Fat, dry matter

12.0%

15.2% on the puppy, 7.1% on the light.

The everyday recipe of the range, with whole dried eggs in support.

Dried chicken and turkey open four of the five lists, at a minimum of 24% on the adult and puppy, 23% on the light and 18% on the senior. The fifth puts dried salmon in the same spot. Dried meat is the form worth seeing at the top, as the water is already out of it. Rice at a minimum of 20% or 21% leads the plant side, then wholegrain maize and dehulled oats, with dried beet pulp as the fibre on all five.

Every bag prints glucosamine hydrochloride and MSM at 300 mg/kg each, plus TruCal, a milk mineral complex at 1000 mg/kg. Maize gluten meal lifts the protein figure on the poultry recipes, so not all of that protein is animal in origin.