GAIN Elite Small Dogs: Adult Salmon review

1. Adult Salmon 56.8
2. Puppy 56.6
3. Light 51.0
4. Adult 50.8
5. Senior 48.0

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

The grain load keeps all five near the typical dry food, with the salmon recipe's shorter list pulling it ahead and the senior's extra starch holding it a step back.

• Dried salmonmin 29%The largest single meat declaration in the range.
• Ricemin 20%
• Wholegrain maize, dehulled oats
• Chicken fatSo the fish billing covers the meat, not the whole recipe.
• Dried beet pulp
• Hydrolysed salmon protein3.5%For palatability.
• Dried chicoryFOS and inulin.
• Salmon oil, minerals0.5%
• TruCal milk mineral complex1,000mg/kgDairy calcium.

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

Meat

Min 29% dried salmon

Chicken and turkey on the other four.

Maize gluten meal, fishmeal

Neither

Both on every other recipe.

Transparency

Outstanding

Excellent on the rest.

The shortest, plainest list of the five, and the pick for a dog that does better on fish.

Four recipes open with dried chicken and turkey, from a minimum of 22% on the senior to 28% on the puppy; the fifth leads with dried salmon at a minimum of 29%. Rice, wholegrain maize and dehulled oats do the filling, and maize gluten meal lifts the protein figure on the four poultry bags.

Every bag carries a hydrolysed protein for palatability, chicory FOS, dried beet pulp and the TruCal milk mineral complex at 1000 mg/kg. Fish turns up in all five, as fishmeal or salmon oil.