GAIN Elite Big Dogs: Senior 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.

• Ricemin 20%Ahead of the meat on this one.
• Dried chicken and turkeymin 18%The lowest meat share in the range.
• Wholegrain maize, dehulled oats, maize flour
• Dried sugar beet pulp
• Hydrolysed chicken protein, maize gluten mealMaize gluten meal raises protein with plant protein.
• Poultry fat, linseed
• Fishmeal, salmon oil
• Sodium chloride, chicory FOS, potassium chlorideFOS min 0.3%
• TruCal milk mineral complex, MSM, glucosamine hydrochloride1,000mg/kg, 300 mg/kg eachThe printed joint pair, aimed at heavy frames.

Meat

min 18%, behind rice

Meat leads the other four lists.

Carbohydrate, dry matter

58.9%

44.2% to 53.7% elsewhere.

Fat

8.0%

6.5% on the light, 11% on the adults.

Kept light for an older dog whose walks have shortened, at the cost of more starch.

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.