GAIN Elite Big Dogs: Adult Salmon 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 salmonmin 24%Same top spot the birds take elsewhere.
• Ricemin 21%
• Wholegrain maize, dehulled oats
• Chicken fatPoultry has not left the bowl.
• Dried beet pulpThe fibre.
• Hydrolysed salmon protein3.5%For the taste of the fish on the front.
• Dried chicoryA source of FOS and inulin.
• Salmon oil0.5%
• Minerals, TruCal milk mineral complex1,000mg/kgDairy-form calcium and phosphorus.
• MSM, glucosamine hydrochloride300 mg/kg eachThe joint pair.

Chicken fat on the list, so this is not a poultry-free recipe.

Main animal

Dried salmon, min 24%

Dried chicken and turkey on the other four.

Maize gluten meal, fishmeal

Neither

Both on the poultry recipes.

List length

Shortest in the range

The others run longer.

The cleanest list in the range, for a big dog that does better on fish.

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.