Gain

Gain Maintenance review

Name: Gain Maintenance
Brand: Gain

25/100Poor

DryAdult

A plain adult kibble in one large bag, sitting in our Poor band because the ingredient list gives almost nothing away. It does print what many foods of this type do not: a full trace mineral panel with every dose and compound named. A dog holding good condition on it is not being let down.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adult dogs of any size in a settled routine
Owners who like the trace panel spelled out, with zinc at 278 mg per kilo
Dogs holding a steady weight, with fat at 8.5% and protein at 19.5%
Busy multi-dog homes that get through a lot of food

Worth watching

No animal or grain named, so no test diet can be built here
Category headings let the recipe move from batch to batch
Carbohydrate at an estimated 57.6% of dry matter against 46.2% for a typical adult dry food

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

25/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyAverage

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label puts a 13kg dog at 230 grams a day and a 40kg dog at 530 grams; the waistline is the better judge.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Gain Maintenance 25.0

All one Poor. Typical dry food: Good.

A recipe that cannot be read cannot be scored generously, and the printed mineral panel is where the label earns its credit back.

What's in it

CerealsThe broadest grain heading the rules allow. Wheat, maize, barley, rice and oats all fit inside it.
Meat and animal derivativesLand animals only, from good muscle to much plainer material.
Derivatives of vegetable origin
Oils and fatsCould be animal fat or vegetable oil.
Minerals
Products from the processing of plants

Iron at 200 mg, zinc at 278 mg, copper at 60 mg and manganese at 31 mg per kilo, each printed with its compound, with vitamin E at 75 mg.

Named ingredients

Cereals, Meat and animal derivatives, Derivatives of vegetable origin, Oils and fats, Minerals, Products from the processing of plants.

Against the range

One adult kibble written entirely in category headings, with no species, grain or percentage named. The analysis is declared in full, moisture included, and the vitamin and trace mineral panel names every compound with its dose.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

326 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

19.5%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

21.2%

Fat

9.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

57.6%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

27.6%

Carbs

60.4%

Oils

5.8%

Other

6.2%

Pricing & size