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Growling Tums Gourmet Adult: Angus Beef review

Name: Growling Tums Gourmet Adult: Angus Beef
Brand: Growling Tums

69/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Eight of nine in our Good band and the chicken a step up in Excellent, all built to one grain-free blueprint. The thing that sets the range apart is how plainly it shows the meat: each label splits its animal share into fresh and dried, so you can see what survives the oven. Pick the animal and nothing else about the recipe moves.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Rotation feeding. Only the animal really changes from one bag to the next
Dogs kept off cereal, as the starch comes from sweet potato, peas and potato
A less common protein: rabbit, venison, pork and haddock sit beside the everyday birds
Unsettled digestions, with FOS and MOS dosed in milligrams on every label
Owners who want the meat share broken into fresh and dried parts

Worth watching

An omega 3 supplement with no species named on all but the haddock, which matters on a strict exclusion plan
Four recipes carry more than one species. Read the list if you feed one protein only
Carbohydrate from 41.4% to 51.5% of dry matter, so the flavours are not interchangeable for a dog kept low on starch
Only the lamb prints a calcium figure

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

How this scores

How we score

69/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. If you are feeding one protein for a reason, check the species on the list first, as the rabbit, venison and fish recipes each bring in a second animal.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken 70.4
Angus Beef 69.0
Turkey 68.4
Pork 66.7
Lamb 65.6
Rabbit 65.2
Venison 64.1
Salmon 63.8
Haddock 63.7

Nine recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The nine sit close enough that the real choice is which animal suits your dog, with the chicken just ahead and the two fish recipes trailing slightly.

What's in it

Beef: freshly prepared Angus beef, dried beef, beef fat50% (28%, 19%, 3%)Even the fat stays on the same animal.
Sweet potato26%Heads the plant side.
Potato
Peas7.5%
Linseed, beet pulpPlant omega 3, and fibre with the sugar taken out.
Minerals
Omega 3 supplementNo species given.
Carrot0.1%A token amount.
FOS, MOS96 mg/kg, 24 mg/kgPrebiotics for the gut bacteria.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc, iron, manganese and copper as sulphates, iodine as calcium iodate and selenium as sodium selenite.

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

Named ingredients

Beef 50% (including Freshly Prepared Angus Beef 28%, Dried Beef 19% & Beef Fat 3%), Sweet Potato (26%), Potato, Peas (7.5%), Linseed, Beet Pulp, Minerals, Omega 3 Supplement, Carrot (0.1%), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Meat: 50%, beef only, fat included; 50% across the range; several mix in a second animal.
Protein, dry matter: 31.5%; Highest of the nine; the rest run 27.2% to 29.3%.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 41.4%; Lowest of the nine; the salmon and trout reaches 51.5%.

On paper the meatiest bag in the range.

Every recipe declares its animal content at 50% or more and splits it into fresh and dried, with the dried part running from 12% to 21%. Sweet potato heads the plant side at 21.5% to 27%, with peas and potato behind it, and no wheat, rice, maize or barley anywhere. Linseed, beet pulp and a printed dose of FOS and MOS are on every label.

What varies is the animal, the garnish and the oil. Eight recipes carry an omega 3 supplement with no species given; the haddock uses olive and sunflower oil instead. Protein runs from 27.2% to 31.5% of dry matter and carbohydrate from 41.4% to 51.5%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

357 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

5.4%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

41.4%

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

50%

Carbs

44.8%

Veg

0.1%

Other

5.1%

Pricing & size