Green Pantry Oral Health review

This one lands in the same Good band as the typical adult dry food, and the label shows you why without much digging. In its favour, the turkey is named and split into its four parts, the grains go in whole, and every trace mineral is chelated and printed with a dose. Against that, meat supplies under half the recipe and the long botanical tail carries no weights at all. Protein and processing sits at Average and nutritional balance with it, while transparency reads Outstanding and value Good. It is a sound, uncomplicated food rather than a standout, and for a turkey eater that is usually the whole job.

Ingredients, as declared: 47% Turkey (Freshly Prepared Turkey (21%), Dried Turkey (21%), Turkey Fat (4%), Turkey stock (1%)), Whole Brown Rice (25%), Whole Barley (11%), Whole Naked Oats (11%). Fruits, Botanicals & Herbs: Linseed, Minerals, Brewery's Yeast, Alfalfa, Turmeric, Seaweed, Mint, Parsley, Carrot, Cranberry, Aniseed, Spinach, Tomato, Nettle, Celery seed, Horehound. Brand bullet points: 47% Turkey, 53% fruit, vegetables, and botanicals. Highly Digestible source of lean Protein. A well-balanced diet that includes meat, fruits, and vegetables to provide natural nutrition. Natural control of intestinal and external hygiene. Made from 100% natural ingredients. Naturally preserved.

That 47% turkey headline breaks into four printed parts: 21% freshly prepared turkey, 21% dried, 4% turkey fat and 1% turkey stock. Cooking sheds the water that fresh meat brings with it, so the 21% dried share is what really lands in the bowl. The fat is named as turkey fat, not left generic, and that is a small mark of a careful label. Protein converts to 28.3% of dry matter and fat to 14.1%, a comfortable middle for an everyday kibble.

The plant side is led by whole brown rice at 25%, then whole barley and whole naked oats at 11% each. Naked oats are the hull-less kind, which makes them easier on a dog than the standard sort, and the brown rice keeps its bran because it has not been polished. Estimated carbohydrate lands at 44.6% of dry matter, a little under the 46.2% typical of adult dry food.

The oral thinking shows in mint and parsley, the two herbs owners reach for when a dog's breath turns, with seaweed, turmeric and brewery's yeast nearby. None of them carries a percentage. Treat this as a gentle herb-led approach, not a dental treatment, and keep the toothbrush in the drawer where it is.

The mineral entries are the quiet strength here. Zinc arrives chelated at 99 mg per kilo, copper at 10 mg and iodine at 1.18 mg. Selenium comes as selenised yeast at 0.26 mg, the organic form that a dog generally takes up better than the mineral salt most labels use. Chelated forms are the more absorbable choice throughout.

One oddity is that a plain entry reading minerals sits inside the fruits and botanicals line, which tells you nothing on its own. The rest of that line, from alfalfa and nettle down to horehound and aniseed, is seasoning. The turkey and the whole grains are what this food actually rests on.

£6.90 a kilo, in 1.5kg, 5kg and 10kg bags.

As a guide, 243 grams a day suits a 15kg adult in moderate condition, based on roughly 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate) and an estimated energy figure. That puts the day at £1.68. On the bag the table is more generous, asking 250 to 375 grams for a dog of 10kg to 19kg. Weigh the first few bowls and let the waist settle it, not either figure on its own.