GAIN Elite Big Dogs: Puppy 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.
• Ricemin 20%
• Wholegrain maize, dehulled oats
• Poultry fat
• Maize gluten mealLifts protein with plant protein.
• Dried sugar beet pulp, chicory FOSFOS min 0.3%
• Hydrolysed chicken protein
• Fishmeal, linseed, salmon oil, whole dried eggs
• Minerals, potassium chloride, sodium chloride
• TruCal milk mineral complex, MSM, glucosamine hydrochloride1000 mg/kg, 300 mg/kg eachTruCal brings calcium in a dairy form.

Calcium works out at 1.63% of dry matter, the highest in the range. For a giant breed grown on a slow curve, ask your vet.

Ingredients

Same list as the adult

The adult carries the identical list.

Protein, dry matter

29.3%

Highest; 21.7% to 25.0% on the rest.

Fat, dry matter

15.2%

7.1% to 12.0% on the rest.

Calcium, dry matter

1.63%

1.3% to 1.52% elsewhere.

The richest bowl in the range, and the calcium figure is the one to clear with your vet.

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.