Lakes Collection

Lakes Collection Lakes Heritage Grain Free: Venison with Mulberry review

Name: Lakes Collection Lakes Heritage Grain Free: Venison with Mulberry
Brand: Lakes Collection

62.8/100Good

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

62.8/100Good

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

Venison

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

Venison & salmon: freshly prepared venison, dried salmon, salmon oil, salmon stock50%Venison 26%, then salmon at 19% dried, 2.5% oil and 2.5% stock. A good part is fish.
Sweet potato27%Its highest level in the range.
Peas, potato6% peas
Beet pulp, linseedFibre, and plant omega 3.
Omega 3 supplement, mineralsSource of the omega 3 not named; minerals not dosed.
Mulberry0.2%
FOS, MOS96 mg/kg, 24 mg/kg

Salmon makes up much of the animal content, so this is not a fish-free game recipe.

Named ingredients

Venison & Salmon 50% (including Freshly Prepared Venison 26%, Dried Salmon 19% Salmon Oil 2.5% & Salmon Stock 2.5%), Sweet Potato (27%), Potato, Peas (6%), Omega 3 Supplement, Linseed, Beet Pulp, Minerals, Mulberry (0.2%), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24 mg/kg). No Added Artificial Colours & Preservatives. Naturally preserved using rosemary extract.

Against the range

Animals: Venison and salmon; Single-animal on several others.
Sweet potato: 27%; The highest; 21.5% at the low end.
Energy: 340 kcal per 100g; At the gentler end.

Game on the front, with a lot of fish behind it.

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

340 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

46.2%

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

19%

Carbs

43.7%

Other

6.3%

Pricing & size