Heights Farm

Heights Farm Dietary+Plus Weight Control Formula review

Name: Heights Farm Dietary+Plus Weight Control Formula
Brand: Heights Farm

52.8/100Good

DryAdult

A lighter everyday kibble with exactly the shape a weight-control recipe should have: fat at 7%, fibre at 5%, energy under the adult dry average. It sits in our Good band. Chicken liver is there for the smell of it, which matters in a recipe where palatability usually suffers.

Where to buy: coming soon

Live retailer links are coming soon. Once we have them from UK retailers, where to buy and the best price will appear here.

Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on a diet, with the fibre keeping the bowl filling for longer
Heavier dogs whose joints feel it: green lipped mussel at 500 mg per kilo, glucosamine at 1,000
A lighter bowl without shrinking the portion, at 342 kcal per 100g
Dogs with no trouble digesting grain

Worth watching

Chicken liver, chicken fat and salmon oil, so neither poultry free nor fish free
Calcium at 2.22% of dry matter, the generous end for a dry food

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

How this scores

How we score

52.8/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size, and not for growing ones. Start at the lower end of the label's chart and let the waistline guide the rest.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Heights Farm Dietary+Plus Weight Control Formula 52.8

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The slimming thinking is sound; rice and oats ahead of the meat, and the carbohydrate that follows, hold the placing where it is.

What's in it

Rice, oatsGentle cereals once cooked. The soluble fibre in oats keeps a dog feeling fed on less.
Beef meal, chicken meal12% eachDried and concentrated, so none of that weight vanishes in the oven.
Unmolassed beet pulp, peasBulk and fermentable fibre.
Chicken liverNutrient dense and hard for a dog to ignore.
Alfalfa, chicken fat, yeast
Salmon oilMarine omega 3, kept small to hold the fat down.
Mannan oligosaccharidesA prebiotic.
Glucosamine, green lipped mussel1,000mg and 500mg per kilo. The mussel is a shellfish.
Seaweed, milk thistle, marigold, yucca, kale, beetroot, rosemary

Zinc sulphate at 400mg, iron at 80mg, manganese at 75mg and copper at 35mg per kilo; zinc chelate, sodium selenite and carnitine carry no figure.

Carnitine, the supplement best known for helping a dog use fat, is listed without a dose.

Named ingredients

Rice, Oats, Beef (12%) & Chicken (12%)Meal, unmolassed Beet Pulp, peas, Chicken liver, Alfalfa, Chicken Fat, Yeast, Salmon Oil, Mannan Oligosaccharides, Glucosamine (1,000mg/kg) Green Lipped Mussel (500mg/kg) Seaweed, Milk Thistle, Marigold, Yucca Schidigera, Kale, Beetroot, Rosemary

Against the range

One weight-control kibble on rice and oats, with beef meal and chicken meal at 12% each and chicken liver behind them. Fat is held to 7%, fibre raised to 5%, and glucosamine and green lipped mussel are dosed for the joints.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

342 kcal/100g

Protein

21%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

23.3%

Fat

7.8%

Fibre

5.6%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

55.5%

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

18.2%

Carbs

76.2%

Veg

2.3%

Oils

1.7%

Other

1.4%

Pricing & size