HiLife FEED ME: Lamb and Chicken with Tomato and Veg review

1. Tasty Beef 44.3
2. Turkey 44.3
3. Lamb 44.0

All three Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The three score as one, held at Average by unnamed meat meals, sugar high on the list and heavy ash.

• Meat meals24%Lamb and chicken named at 4% each; the rest has no species.
• Wholegrain wheat, wheat branThe whole kernel, though wheat still leads the grains dogs prove intolerant of.
• SugarFor texture and taste.
• Vegetable glycerineHolds the moisture in without letting the food spoil.
• Poultry fat, meat stock
• Dried garden vegetables1.1%
• Salt, minerals
• Tomato powder0.1%The second half of the name.
• Chicory extract, yeast extract0.05% eachA prebiotic fibre, and one for taste.

Vitamin E at 250 mg/kg and zinc at 63 mg/kg with a short trace mineral set, plus antioxidants, preservatives and colourants.

The only variety that declares colourants.

Named meat

Lamb 4%, chicken 4%

Beef 6% on one, turkey, bacon and chicken on the other.

Colourants

Declared

Not on the other two.

The lamb option, and the one to pass over if you avoid added colour.

All three share one soft moist base: meat meals at 24% with only a small named share inside, then wholegrain wheat, wheat bran, sugar and vegetable glycerine to keep the pieces yielding at 18% moisture. Poultry fat, meat stock and dried garden vegetables at 1.1% follow.

The analysis is identical across the range, with protein at 24.4% of dry matter, carbohydrate at 51.2%, ash at 11.6% and calcium at 2.44%. What varies is the named meat and the small flavour entry at the end: tomato, cheese or bacon.

Price per kilo

£2.75 (RRP)

Pack

2kg, 6kg, 8kg

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

250 to 310 g a day, 280 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.77

Budget end of the market for a dry food, though the analysis gives a little less than that price would suggest.