Gelert

Gelert Country Choice Maintenance Adult: Chicken review

Name: Gelert Country Choice Maintenance Adult: Chicken
Brand: Gelert

53.8/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A rice and maize adult range in three proteins, made for plain everyday feeding. The chicken and lamb sit in our Good band and the fish one step behind in Average. That fish recipe quietly gives a poultry-free, red-meat-free option inside the same construction.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Adults that do well on cereal-based food
The joint pair in print: glucosamine 175 mg/kg, chondroitin 125 mg/kg in every bag
A prebiotic in every recipe, from mannan oligosaccharides
Rotating proteins on one recipe frame and one feeding pattern
A dog kept off poultry and red meat, who can stay in the range on the fish

Worth watching

Maize in all three bags
Dried maize protein makes up part of the protein in the chicken and lamb
Carbohydrate from 49.9% to 56.5% of dry matter, above the 46.2% typical of adult dry food
No dosed zinc or copper figures to check

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

How this scores

How we score

53.8/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg adult eats about 225 grams a day of any of the three, so let the waistline have the final word.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Lamb 56.7
Chicken 53.8
Fish 45.5

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

Dried meat and printed doses help; the cereal share and the maize protein hold the chicken and lamb level with the middle of the shelf, and the fish a step behind.

What's in it

White rice30%A gentle cereal, rarely the cause of a problem.
Chicken meat meal20%Dried, so most of it reaches the kibble.
Maize
Dried maize protein15%Lifts the protein figure; plant protein sits below meat on amino acid quality.
Barley, dried brewer's yeast
Chicken fat5%Named, so you know the animal.
Flaxseed oil, chicken digest1.5%, 1%Plant omega 3.
Minerals
Prebiotic MOS, glucosamine, chondroitin, yucca extract, cranberryGlucosamine 175 mg/kg, chondroitin 125 mg/kg, yucca 500 mg/kg, cranberry 100 mg/kg.

Named ingredients

White Rice (30%), Chicken Meat Meal (20%), Maize, Dried Maize Protein (15%), Barley, Dried Brewer's Yeast, Chicken Fat (5%), Flaxseed Oil (1.5%), Chicken Digest (1%), Minerals, Prebiotics MOS (Mannan-Oligosaccharide), Glucosamine (175 mg/kg), Chondroitin (125 mg/kg), Yucca Extract (500 mg/kg), Cranberry (100 mg/kg).

Against the range

Carbohydrate, dry matter: 56.5%; Largest; 49.9% on the lamb.
Calcium: 1.09% of dry matter; The only recipe that declares it.
Ash, dry matter: 5.4%; 10.9% on the fish and lamb.

The one bag with a calcium figure you can check.

White rice opens every recipe at 30% and maize is the second cereal throughout. The meat always arrives as a dried meal, so most of the declared share reaches the kibble, and each fat is named after its animal, with flaxseed oil at 1.5% in all three.

Every bag carries the same extras at printed doses: a MOS prebiotic, glucosamine, chondroitin, yucca and cranberry. Minerals are one word inline, with no separate panel. Ash follows the bone in each meal, low in the chicken and higher in the fish and lamb.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

340 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

5.4%

Carbs

56.5%

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

21%

Carbs

65.4%

Oils

6.5%

Other

7.1%

Pricing & size