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Growling Tums Adult: Comforting Chicken & Rice review

Name: Growling Tums Adult: Comforting Chicken & Rice
Brand: Growling Tums

46.4/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Three no-frills kibbles built to one short, easy plan, with the trace element panel printed in full. The lamb and the salmon sit in our Good band alongside the typical adult dry food, and the chicken lands a step down in Average. Feeding more than one dog makes food this straightforward appealing.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Multi-dog households, with bags up to 20kg on two recipes
Dogs that hold condition easily, as fat runs from 8.0% to 12.0%
Steady middle-aged dogs that do better on a moderate bowl
Red-meat lovers: lamb meat meal at a minimum of 26%
Fish lovers, with fresh salmon, salmon meal and salmon oil in one recipe

Worth watching

Poultry fat names a family and not a bird, so a strict elimination diet has nothing to anchor to
Chicken on the front, but poultry meal on the list
Fishmeal in the chicken and salmon throughout the salmon, so neither is fish free
No calcium figure on any of the three

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

How this scores

How we score

46.4/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Feed to the ribs and adjust from the bag's guide.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Luscious Lamb 56.8
Scrumptious Salmon 52.6
Comforting Chicken 46.4

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

What the labels name and what the analyses carry decide the order, and the unnamed poultry meal is most of why the chicken finishes lowest.

What's in it

Ricemin 26%
Poultry mealmin 26%Names a family, not a bird. The word chicken is not matched on the list.
Barley, oats
Poultry fatUnnamed bird.
Beet pulpThe fibre.
FishmealA second animal source.
Brewer's yeastB vitamins and a flavour lift.
Yucca, minerals and vitaminsYucca is there for kennel odour.

Vitamins A and D3 with biotin at 150mcg, and iron, zinc, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium, each printed per kilo.

Contains fishmeal, so it is not fish free.

Named ingredients

Rice (min 26%), poultry meal (min 26%), barley, oats, poultry fat, beet pulp, fishmeal, brewers yeast, yucca, minerals and vitamins.

Against the range

Meat: Poultry meal, min 26%; Lamb meat meal or fresh salmon on the others.
Fat, declared: 8.0%; Same as the lamb; the salmon is 12.0%.
Fibre, declared: 4.0%; Highest with the salmon; the lamb is 2.5%.

The lean one, for a dog that gains weight looking at a biscuit.

Every recipe follows one plan: a meat entry and a carbohydrate entry each declared at a minimum of 26%, then cereal or potato, beet pulp, yucca and the vitamin and mineral pack. A minimum is honest as far as it goes, and the true share may sit higher.

The meat forms differ. The chicken uses poultry meal, the lamb uses lamb meat meal, and the salmon pairs fresh salmon with salmon meal. Poultry fat is the added fat in all three. The trace element panel is shared and every figure is printed.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

346.2 kcal/100g

Protein

20%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

21.7%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

55.5%

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

26%

Carbs

65.4%

Oils

4.3%

Other

4.3%

Pricing & size