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Iams Advanced Nutrition Sensitive Digestion Adult All Breed review

Name: Iams Advanced Nutrition Sensitive Digestion Adult All Breed
Brand: Iams

62/100Good

DryAdult

The most carefully built recipe in the Iams Advanced Nutrition line, and it sits in our Good band with the middle of the adult dry market. White rice at 14% is there because it is gentle. The interesting part is at the end of the list: butyrate in a coating that gets it past the stomach.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with an unsettled gut. Three digestive aids are declared with percentages
Owners who want white rice doing the carrying, printed at 14%
Turkey eaters, with turkey meat at 4% on top of the dried chicken and turkey
Multi-dog homes, as one recipe covers small, medium and large adults

Worth watching

Chicken and turkey right through, plus unnamed poultry fat, so a poultry-sensitive dog is not the one for this
Salmon oil on the list, so it is not fish free

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

How this scores

How we score

62/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of small, medium and large breeds. Weigh out the 215 grams a 15kg dog is given and let the waistline nudge it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small, Medium, Large

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Iams Advanced Nutrition Sensitive Digestion Adult All Breed 62.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The largest dried meat declaration in the line and a proper gut kit are what lift this one above the rest of Advanced Nutrition.

What's in it

Dried chicken and turkey29%Chicken alone is 17%. The biggest meat declaration in the line.
Maize
White rice14%Breaks down easily and asks little of the digestion. The reason for the name.
Barley
Poultry fatPoultry covers chicken, turkey, duck and goose, so the bird is not named.
Turkey meat4%
Dried beet pulp2.5%Gives a stool its shape.
Chicken gravy, minerals, linseed, salmon oil, dried brewer's yeastMarine omega 3 from the salmon oil, the plant form from linseed. Minerals include 0.35% sodium hexametaphosphate.
Mannanoligosaccharides, fructooligosaccharides0.5%, 0.2%Two prebiotic fibres that feed the useful bacteria in the large intestine.
Microencapsulated sodium butyrate0.1%Fuel for the cells lining the colon. The coating gets it past the stomach intact.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with copper, iodine, iron, manganese, zinc and selenium, all in sulphate, oxide or other standard forms.

Poultry fat is the one unnamed animal ingredient. It matters only if you need to rule a specific bird out.

Named ingredients

Dried chicken and turkey 29% (including chicken 17%), maize, white rice (14%), barley, poultry fat, turkey meat (4%), dried beet pulp (2.5%), chicken gravy, minerals (including 0.35% sodium hexametaphosphate), linseed, salmon oil, dried brewer's yeast, mannanoligosaccharides (0.5%), fructooligosaccharides (0.2%), microencapsulated Sodium Butyrate (0.1%).

Against the range

Dried chicken and turkey at 29% lead, with turkey meat adding 4% further down. White rice at 14% sits beside maize and barley, and the last lines carry two prebiotic fibres and a coated sodium butyrate, each with a percentage.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

368 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

15%

Fibre

Ash

6.3%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

6.8%

Carbs

46.4%

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

38.8%

Carbs

51.5%

Oils

5.3%

Other

4.4%

Pricing & size