Lakes Collection

Lakes Collection Lakes Heritage Grain Free: Pork with Apple review

Name: Lakes Collection Lakes Heritage Grain Free: Pork with Apple
Brand: Lakes Collection

64.3/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

One recipe, ten animals, and every bag reads Good. Half of each is declared as named meat or fish with the fresh and dried shares printed separately, so you can see what is doing the work. The fruit or herb in each name is decoration, and the label prints figures that say so.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog kept off cereal: sweet potato, potato and peas do the binding
Owners who rotate proteins. Only the animal changes
Dogs bored of the usual birds, with rabbit, venison and duck on offer
Fish eaters, with haddock, salmon and tuna on the same base
Medium, large and giant adults, the sizes the feeding tables cover

Worth watching

Two animals under one heading on several bags: turkey in the rabbit, salmon in the venison
The declared half counts stock, gravy, fat and oil, so the muscle share is smaller
An unnamed omega 3 supplement in every recipe, which matters for a fish-free dog

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

How this scores

How we score

64.3/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium, large and giant adults. Read the bracket after the headline animal before you buy, since several bags carry a second animal.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Beef 68.1
Chicken 67.7
Turkey 64.7
Duck 64.6
Pork 64.3
Rabbit 64.0
Tuna 62.8
Venison 62.8
Haddock 61.9
Salmon 61.9

All ten Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The ten sit close enough that the animal, not the score, should decide which bag goes in the trolley.

What's in it

Pork: freshly prepared, dried, pork stock50%31% fresh, 18% dried, 1% stock. An uncommon protein on a British shelf.
Sweet potato22%
Peas, potato9% peas
Beet pulp, linseedFibre, and plant omega 3.
Omega 3 supplement, mineralsSource of the omega 3 not named; minerals not dosed.
Apple0.7%The largest named fruit in the range.
FOS, MOS96 mg/kg, 24 mg/kg

Named ingredients

Pork 50% (including Freshly Prepared Pork 31%, Dried Pork 18% & Pork Stock 1%), Sweet Potato (22%), Peas (9%), Potato, Beet Pulp, Linseed, Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Apple (0.7%), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24 mg/kg). No Added Artificial Colours & Preservatives Naturally preserved using rosemary extract.

Against the range

Fat: 15%; Highest in the line; the tuna is 10%.
Animals: Pork only; One of the few single-animal recipes.

Usually met with enthusiasm at the bowl.

Ten bags on one recipe with the animal rotated through it. Every variety declares half its content as named meat or fish, split into a freshly prepared share and a dried one, both printed; the chicken reaches 55%. Sweet potato leads the plant side at 21.5% to 27%, with peas and potato behind and no cereal anywhere.

Beet pulp, linseed, an unnamed omega 3 supplement and FOS and MOS at printed doses follow on every label. The fruit or herb in each name is a garnish, mostly at 0.3%. Rosemary extract preserves, and minerals are declared as a group with no doses.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

368 kcal/100g

Protein

26%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.8%

Carbs

41.8%

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

32%

Added water

18%

Carbs

44.8%

Veg

0.7%

Other

4.5%

Pricing & size