Gentle

Gentle Egg review

Name: Gentle Egg
Brand: Gentle

65.4/100Good

Cold pressedPuppyAdult

A rare complete food for a dog that has to steer around meat, fish and cereal all at once. Whole dried egg leads at 30% and potato flakes match it at 30%. The rest is vegetables, an itemised herb mix and a fruit tail, and it reads in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Elimination plans, with egg the only animal ingredient on the recipe
Keeping meat and fish out of the bowl by choice, with a full vitamin and mineral panel still printed
Dogs that need cereals left out
Fast eaters. The pellets crumble in water where baked kibble swells
A puppy and an older dog sharing one bag, with every stage and size on the label

Worth watching

Egg carries the whole protein load, so an egg-sensitive dog has nowhere else to turn
Carbohydrate at 52.2% of dry matter against 43.2% for the middle of cold-pressed
A dog raised on meaty dinners needs a slow changeover

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

How this scores

How we score

65.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for every life stage and size, with calcium at 1.36% of dry matter suiting growing dogs too. At 325 kcal per 100g it is lighter than most pressed pellets, so portions run a little bigger.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Gentle Egg 65.4

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A solid result for a recipe that gives up meat altogether; the starch that follows from that keeps it inside the band.

What's in it

Full egg, dried30%The only animal ingredient. About as complete as protein gets, and the yolk brings choline.
Potato flakes30%Does the work cereals usually do.
Carrots, beetroot, pumpkinBeta carotene, soluble fibre and gentle bulk.
Beta vulgaris
Sea algae (Ascophyllum nodosum)For iodine.
Herb mixture: stinging nettle, horsetail, dandelion3%Itemised, where plenty of labels just say herbs.
Apple, red currant, blackcurrant1.5% each for the currants
Acerola cherry powder, yucca schidigeraFew natural ingredients carry more vitamin C than acerola.

Copper, manganese and zinc as chelates that absorb well, vitamin C at 140mg and choline chloride at 2000mg per kilo, and selenium as sodium selenite.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry matter figures assume 8%.

Named ingredients

Full egg dried 30%, Potato flakes 30%, Carrots dried and ground, Beet Root dried and ground, Pumpkin dried and ground, Beta vulgaris, Sea Algae dried and ground (Ascophyllum nodosum), Herb mixture, dried and ground (Stinging nettle, horsetail, dandelion) 3%, Apple dried and ground, Red currant dried and ground 1.5%, Blackcurrant dried and ground 1.5%, Acerola cherry powder, Yucca Schidigera (Mohave-Palm lily) dried and ground

Against the range

One cold-pressed recipe with a single animal ingredient, whole dried egg, matched by potato flakes. Everything after them is plant matter, itemised one by one, and no meat, fish or cereal appears anywhere. Every vitamin and mineral is printed with its dose.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

325 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

23%

Fat

Fibre

4.8%

Ash

7.2%

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

9.8%

Fibre

5.2%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

52.2%

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

33%

Carbs

30%

Veg

21.8%

Other

15.2%

Pricing & size