Heights Farm Adult Extra Joint Care Grain Free Salmon And Potato review

This food sits in our Good band, which is where the typical adult dry food lands too, so on the scoreboard it keeps pace with the field rather than pulling ahead of it. Protein and processing and nutritional balance both read Average, with transparency up at Outstanding and value Good. The strong suit here is what the label declares, and not what goes into the bowl. What it offers instead is a specific brief, a single fish with no grain and a joint focus, delivered at a steady score rather than a headline one.

Ingredients, as declared: Salmon (26%), Potato (26%), Peas (20%), Salmon Meal, Salmon Oil, Unmolassed Beet Pulp, Full Fat Linseed, Alfalfa, Seaweed, Carrot, Yeast, Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Mannan Oligosaccharides, Glucosamine, Green Lipped Mussel, Yucca Schidigera, Rosemary

Salmon leads at 26% with salmon meal further down the list, and the two split the job between them. The fresh salmon gives the headline figure, though water is most of what it weighs before baking. The meal goes in dry, so it brings more protein weight than the list order lets on. Salmon oil is the fat source on top of that. Every animal ingredient here is the same fish. That detail matters most if you chose it for a one-protein bowl.

The starch comes from potato at 26% and peas at 20%, with no grain in the recipe. Carbohydrate converts to 44.9% of dry matter, a touch under the 46.2% typical for adult dry food, so grain free here means a different starch, not noticeably less of it.

The Extra Joint Care of the name rests on glucosamine and green lipped mussel. The mussel is a traditional joint inclusion, a natural source of the compounds most joint supplements are built around, and it makes sense on a recipe that lists seniors on the label. Neither entry is dosed in print, so read the pair as a nudge built into the food, not a measured supplement.

The supporting cast is quietly sensible. Unmolassed beet pulp has had its sugars stripped out and brings gentle fibre. Plant omega 3 comes from linseed to sit alongside the salmon oil, and mannan oligosaccharides are the prebiotic touch. Seaweed, alfalfa and carrot sit further back. Yucca is the usual choice for softening stool odour, and rosemary closes the list, with preservation handled by natural antioxidants.

Calcium converts to 1.28% of dry matter, comfortable territory for an adult food. Part of the zinc arrives as a chelate, and a dog takes that form up more readily. Energy is declared at 390 kcal per 100g, on the fuller side for a kibble. That suits the joint brief in its own way, since keeping a dog lean is the kindest thing you can do for its joints. Measure the bowl, do not pour it.

£3.87 a kilo, sold in 2kg and 15kg bags, with a 30kg option listed as two 15kg bags bundled with Kronch salmon treats.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at roughly 215 grams and about £0.83 a day, based on a maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal daily (110 × bodyweight^0.75). The label's own guide for dogs between 10kg and 25kg runs from 185 to 365 grams a day.