Heights Farm

Heights Farm Adult Extra Joint Care Grain Free: Duck Vegetable & Potato review

Name: Heights Farm Adult Extra Joint Care Grain Free: Duck Vegetable & Potato
Brand: Heights Farm

68.6/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

A grain-free joint-care kibble in duck and turkey, each led by a meat meal with a printed total for the headline animal. Glucosamine and green lipped mussel are on both lists. The meal is the dependable half, as the fresh share loses most of its water in the oven, and protein still lands at a good level.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept off grain, with peas, potatoes and sweet potatoes carrying the starch
Older dogs whose joints need support
Hungry, hard-working dogs on the duck, which declares 26% protein and 17% fat
Owners who want a total for the headline meat on the pack

Worth watching

Chicken fat and salmon oil in both, so neither keeps poultry or fish out of the bowl
Keep the duck portion in check for a steady, sofa-loving dog

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

How this scores

How we score

68.6/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

The duck is listed for adults and seniors, the turkey for adults, both for every size. The maker's chart starts a 15kg dog at 95 to 160 grams a day; weigh the first few bowls.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Duck Vegetable 68.6
Turkey 65.0

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The two finish close enough that the animal is the thing to choose on.

What's in it

Duck mealGoes in dry, so it is the dependable half of the duck total.
Peas, potatoesTake over from cereal.
Chicken fatPoultry in a duck recipe.
Freshly prepared duckmin 35% total duckMostly water, so the total reads a little higher than the kibble delivers.
Unmolassed beet pulp, sweet potatoesSweet potato brings vitamin A and slower energy.
Monocalcium phosphate, lucerneA mineral supplement, not dairy, and alfalfa for fibre.
Full fat linseed, salmon oilPlant and marine omega 3.
Dried apple, oligosaccharides, orange bioflavonoids0.4% apple, 0.1% bioflavonoids
Glucosamine, green lipped musselThe joint pair. Mussel is a shellfish.
Seaweed, milk thistle, yucca, fruit and vegetable tailmin 44% total vegetables

Vitamins A, D and E with L-carnitine, iron, iodine, copper, zinc and selenium, though the manganese and one zinc figure are missing from the printed table.

The additive table prints no figure for manganese or for one of the two zinc sources.

Named ingredients

Duck meal, peas, potatoes, chicken fat, freshly prepared duck (min 35% total duck), un-molassed beet pulp, sweet potatoes, mono calcium phosphate, Lucerne, full fat linseed, salmon oil (source of omega 3 fatty acids), dried apple (0.4%), fructose and mannan oligosaccharides, glucosamine, seaweed, orange bioflavonoids (0.1%), milk thistle, dried carrots, green lipped mussel, yucca shidigera, blackcurrant, rosehip, pomegranate, kale, beetroot (min 44% total vegetables).

Against the range

Headline meat: Min 35% duck; Min 38% turkey in the other.
Fat: 17%; 14% in the turkey.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 39.4%; 44.4% in the turkey.
Life stage: Adult and senior; Adult only on the turkey.

The richer of the two and the lower in starch, and the one that names seniors.

Both open with a named meat meal, bring freshly prepared meat of the same species further down and print a total for the two. Peas, potatoes and sweet potatoes replace cereal, and both declare a minimum of 44% vegetables. Chicken fat, salmon oil and full fat linseed supply the fat, and glucosamine and green lipped mussel do the joint work in both.

What varies is the animal, the fat level and a few small touches: apple and orange bioflavonoids in the duck, cellulose and cranberries in the turkey.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

373 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

17%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

28.9%

Fat

18.9%

Fibre

3.9%

Ash

8.9%

Carbs

39.4%

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

44.3%

Carbs

47.4%

Veg

0.5%

Oils

5.8%

Other

Pricing & size