Lakes Collection

Lakes Collection Lakes Established Hypoallergenic: Lamb review

Name: Lakes Collection Lakes Established Hypoallergenic: Lamb
Brand: Lakes Collection

51.3/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A four-recipe hypoallergenic range where each bag stays inside one named meat family and prints the meat split in full. The lamb and turkey sit in our Good band, the fish and salmon in Average. The analysis is gentle throughout, with fat low and carbohydrate doing much of the work.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Narrowing a sensitive dog's suspects to one animal at a time
Wheat-free households. None of the four uses it
Medium, large and giant adults, the sizes these labels are written for
Owners who want to see fresh, dried and gravy shares itemised on the bag
A dog that needs gentler fat: declared between 8% and 10% across the range

Worth watching

Low fat and high carbohydrate everywhere, so a hard-working dog wants a bigger bowl than the guide table suggests
Grain in all four. Even the salmon swaps rice and barley for oats and maize
Salmon oil and gravy inside the fish recipe; read every animal entry before ruling a protein in or out

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

How this scores

How we score

51.3/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium, large and giant adults. Pick the recipe by the one animal your dog needs to stay on, then read that bag's full meat split.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Lamb 51.3
Turkey 50.9
Salmon 49.5
Fish 48.5

Four recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The range spans a single step, with the lamb and turkey level with most bags on the shelf and the fish pair a shade behind; the effort goes into naming things clearly.

What's in it

Lamb: dried lamb, freshly prepared lamb, lamb fat, lamb gravy34%Dried lamb at 25% leads, the most concentrated declaration of the four.
Brown rice23%
Barley16%Carries gluten.
White rice15%
Linseed, beet pulp, alfalfaBeet pulp stands in for the peas used elsewhere.
Minerals, seaweed, omega 3 supplement
FOS, chicory extract970 mg/kg, 0.05%
Yucca extract, dandelion190 mg/kg

Ash and calcium run highest here, calcium at 2.17% of dry matter. Think about it on a mineral-restricted plan.

Named ingredients

Lamb 34% (Including Dried Lamb 25%, Freshly Prepared Lamb 4%, Lamb Fat 3% & Lamb Gravy 2%), Brown Rice (23%), Barley (16%), White Rice (15%), Linseed, Beet Pulp, Alfalfa, Minerals, Seaweed, Omega 3 Supplement, FOS (970 mg/kg), Chicory Extract (0.05%), Yucca Extract (190 mg/kg), Dandelion. No Added Artificial Colours, Flavours or Preservatives. Naturally preserved using rosemary extract.

Against the range

Meat: 34%, lamb only; 30% on the fish and turkey, 44% on the salmon.
Calcium, dry matter: 2.17%; 1.3% to 1.63% on the others.
Fat, dry matter: 10.9%; Level with the salmon; the turkey is 8.7%.

The cleanest single-animal recipe of the four.

Every bag breaks its headline meat into parts, with fresh, dried, fat and gravy shares printed, and no recipe uses wheat. The lamb, turkey and fish lead with the dried share, so they carry more animal material into the kibble than a headline figure usually implies. Rice, barley and oats carry the starch in those three; the salmon uses potato, oats and maize.

Fat is low throughout and carbohydrate high, the trade for an easy bowl. Three recipes share a tail of linseed, seaweed, dosed FOS and yucca, and state rosemary extract as the preservative. The salmon stops after minerals and carries the most meat instead.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

348 kcal/100g

Protein

21%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

22.8%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

53.2%

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

31%

Added water

Carbs

58.3%

Veg

2.6%

Other

5.1%

Pricing & size