JosiDog

JosiDog Family review

Name: JosiDog Family
Brand: JosiDog

50.9/100Good

DryPuppy

A plain eight-ingredient kibble meant to feed a litter and their mother from one sack, and it sits in our Good band. Dried poultry protein leads, whole grain maize and rice follow, and fat at 17.0% with 392 kcal per 100g makes it a dense bowl for a growing dog. No calcium is printed.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Households rearing a litter. The feeding guide covers the bitch through pregnancy as well as the pups
Growing dogs that need energy: 392 kcal per 100g against the 376 typical of a puppy dry food
Owners who like a short list, eight ingredients with no long tail
Puppies that do well on cereal, with maize and rice behind the meat
Anyone who wants the vitamin block itemised, down to L-carnitine at 200 mg/kg

Worth watching

No calcium declared, on a food listed for pups from toy to giant
Poultry as a category, so the bird can vary between batches
Maize protein midway down, so part of the protein figure is cereal

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

How this scores

How we score

50.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, and for the mother through pregnancy. For a big-breed litter, ask JosiDog for the calcium figure before you commit to a sack.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

JosiDog Family 50.9

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A category name where the meat should be, a lot of cereal and no calcium figure are what hold it back; the analysis itself is sound.

What's in it

Dried poultry proteinDried, so its share survives the oven. Poultry can mean chicken, turkey, duck or goose, with no promise of which.
Whole grain maizeDoes the structural work with the rice.
Rice
Poultry fatUnnamed bird again.
Beet fibreThe only named fibre, mild and generally well tolerated.
Maize proteinA cereal concentrate that lifts the protein figure without adding meat.
Hydrolysed poultry protein
Minerals

A fully itemised panel: vitamin A at 24000 IU with the whole B group, L-carnitine, biotin, and zinc and copper as glycine chelates, which absorb better than plain oxides.

No calcium figure anywhere on the label. For a pup that will finish large, ask JosiDog for the number.

Moisture is not printed, so the dry-matter figures assume the 8% a dry food normally holds.

Named ingredients

Dried poultry protein; whole grain maize; rice; poultry fat; beet fibre; maize protein; hydrolysed poultry protein; minerals

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

392 kcal/100g

Protein

29%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

7.1%

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.7%

Carbs

40.1%

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.

Oils

100%

Pricing & size