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Growling Tums Superfood Adult: Superfood Chicken review

Name: Growling Tums Superfood Adult: Superfood Chicken
Brand: Growling Tums

75.7/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

All four in our Excellent band, on one construction with the animal swapped. Fresh meat leads each label and the dried meat behind it does more of the work than the front of the bag suggests. The buffalo is the outlier, with three red meats and the range's only joint support.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who like the 65% animal share broken into its parts
Dogs better off cereal
Rotating proteins without changing the recipe underneath
A temperamental digestion, with prebiotic FOS and MOS in every bag
Older dogs feeling their joints, on the buffalo

Worth watching

No source for the omega 3 supplement, so none of the land-meat bags can be promised fish free
The buffalo blends buffalo with dried beef and dried lamb

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

How this scores

How we score

75.7/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog eats roughly 190 grams a day of the birds or salmon and 230 of the buffalo; let the waistline decide.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Superfood Chicken 75.7
Superfood Salmon 75.5
Superfood Duck 74.1
Superfood Buffalo 73.4

All four Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

A large itemised animal share and a light carbohydrate load carry all four, so the choice is which protein your dog gets on with.

What's in it

Chicken: British free range 35%, dried 22%, fat 6%, gravy 2%65%Chicken all the way down.
Sweet potato
Beans
Beet pulp
Dried superfood blend: ginger, pomegranate, kale, artichoke, blueberryA flourish on top of the recipe.
Omega 3 supplement, mineralsThe supplement names no source.
FOS, MOS192 mg/kg and 48 mg/kgPrebiotics for the gut bacteria.
Olive extract0.01%An antioxidant.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium as sulphates, all dosed.

Named ingredients

65% Chicken (35% Freshly Prepared British Free Range Chicken, 22% Dried Chicken, 6% Chicken Fat, 2% Chicken Gravy), Sweet Potato, Beans, Beet Pulp, Dried Superfood Blend* (Including Ginger, Pomegranate, Kale, Artichoke, Blueberry), Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 192 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 48 mg/kg), Olive Extract (0.01%)

Against the range

Meat: Free range chicken; Duck, salmon or a buffalo blend on the others.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.41%; Up to 2.5% on the duck.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 37.5%; Down to 27.7% on the buffalo.

The gentlest way into the range for a dog that has never met the less common birds.

Every bag declares 65% animal content and itemises it, with freshly prepared meat at 35% and dried meat close behind. Sweet potato and beans take the place of cereal, beet pulp supplies the fibre, and a dried superfood blend, FOS at 192 mg/kg, MOS at 48 mg/kg and olive extract finish each list.

Carbohydrate converts to between 27.7% and 37.5% of dry matter, where the typical adult dry food runs at 46.2%. The omega 3 supplement gives no source on any label.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

372 kcal/100g

Protein

32%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

34.8%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

37.5%

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

63%

Added water

Carbs

30%

Other

Pricing & size