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Growling Tums Superfood Adult: Superfood Duck review

Name: Growling Tums Superfood Adult: Superfood Duck
Brand: Growling Tums

74.1/100Excellent

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

74.1/100Excellent

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

Duck

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

Duck: fresh 35%, dried 22%, fat 5%, stock 3%65%
Sweet potato
Haricot beansNamed, where the others say beans.
Sugar beet fibre
Dried superfood blend: parsnip, beetroot, orange, broccoli, pumpkin
Omega 3 supplement, minerals, vitaminsNo source on the supplement.
FOS, MOS, olive extract192 mg/kg and 48 mg/kg

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

Declared calcium converts to 2.5% of dry matter, the highest in the range.

Named ingredients

65% Duck (35% Freshly Prepared Duck, 22% Dried Duck, 5% Duck Fat & 3% Duck Stock), Sweet Potato, Haricot Beans, Sugar Beet Fibre, Dried Superfood Blend* (Including Parsnip, Beetroot, Orange, Broccoli, Pumpkin), Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Vitamins, Fructooligosaccharides (192 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (48 mg/kg), Olive Extract.

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 18.5%; The richest of the four.
Energy: 389 kcal per 100g; The most energy dense; 362 on the buffalo.
Calcium, dry matter: 2.5%; 1.41% on the chicken.

A change of scene for a dog bored with the everyday birds, best kept to a busy one.

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

389 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

36.9%

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

60%

Added water

Carbs

29.7%

Other

5.3%

Pricing & size