Lakes Collection

Lakes Collection Lakes Established Hypoallergenic: Salmon review

Name: Lakes Collection Lakes Established Hypoallergenic: Salmon
Brand: Lakes Collection

49.5/100Average

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

49.5/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

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

Salmon

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

Salmon: freshly prepared salmon, dried salmon, salmon oil, salmon gravy44%Leads with the fresh share at 23%, backed by 13% dried. The largest animal share here.
Potato24%
OatsA grain, so this is not grain free.
Maize13%The only recipe that uses it.
Beet pulp4%
MineralsAnd the list ends there.

Named ingredients

Salmon 44% (Including Freshly Prepared Salmon 23%, Dried Salmon 13%, Salmon Oil 6% & Salmon Gravy 2%), Potato (24%), Oats, Maize (13%), Beet Pulp (4%), Minerals.

Against the range

Meat: 44%; 30% to 34% on the others.
Starch: Potato, oats, maize; Rice and barley or oats on the rest.
Supporting tail: None; Linseed, seaweed and dosed prebiotics on the other three.

For a dog kept clear of land meats, the most animal material in the range.

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

353 kcal/100g

Protein

22%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

23.9%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

53.7%

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%

Added water

Carbs

52.3%

Other

3.7%

Pricing & size