Langham's

Langham's Grain Free Dry review

Name: Langham's Grain Free Dry
Brand: Langham's

47.7/100Average

DryAdult

A single grain free kibble in our Average band, held there by starch leading the list and a meat share only partly named. The back of the label is the surprise. Linseed, sweet potato, seaweed, MOS, glucosamine and chondroitin all carry a printed figure, which is more than most foods of this shape bother with.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want one grain free bowl without a shelf of flavours to choose from
Dogs moving off cereal
Joint and gut extras with a percentage beside each, down to chondroitin at 0.01%
A named omega source: linseed at 4.7%
Settled, unhurried dogs. Energy is estimated at 318 kcal per 100g against the 357 typical of adult dry food

Worth watching

Only 14% of the 26% meat meals pinned to a species
Poultry oil names a family, never the bird, which matters on an exclusion trial
No calcium figure anywhere on the bag

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

How this scores

How we score

47.7/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of any size, with a feeding guide that starts at little dogs. If calcium matters for your dog, there is nothing on the bag to check, so ask Langham's first.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Langham's Grain Free Dry 47.7

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Starch at the head of the list and a meat declaration mostly without a species hold it back, while generous printed extras do a lot of sensible things quietly.

What's in it

Potato starchThe binder that lets a grain free kibble hold its shape. Starch with very little else attached.
Meat meals (including turkey meal)26% (14% turkey)Meal is meat dried to a powder, so it carries more protein than fresh meat by weight. The rest keeps only the family name.
Dried peas, pea starchMore of the plant side carrying the recipe.
Beet pulp6%The fibre.
Poultry oilA family, not the bird.
Linseed4.7%Plant omega 3, which a dog converts slowly. A steady background for the coat.
Dried sweet potato3.7%
Minerals
Seaweed, MOS, citrus extract, glucosamine, yucca, L-carnitine, chondroitin sulphate0.09% down to 0.01%Small helpings, each with a printed figure.
Dried parsley, oregano, cranberry, marigold0.01% down to 0.004%Seasoning at trace level.

A fully itemised mineral panel, with zinc supplied twice: 47 mg as the sulphate and 31.02 mg as a chelate per kilo, the form most dogs absorb more readily.

No calcium figure on the bag, so there is nothing to check if that matters for your dog.

Named ingredients

Potato Starch, Meat Meals 26% (Including 14% Turkey Meal), Dried Peas, Pea Starch, Beet Pulp (6%), Poultry Oil, Linseed (4.7%), Dried Sweet Potato (3.7%), Minerals, Dried Seaweed (0.09%), Mannan Oligosaccharides (MOS) (0.09%), Citrus Extract (0.03%), Glucosamine (0.02%), Yucca (0.01%), L- Carnitine (0.01%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.01%), Dried Parsley (0.01%), Dried Oregano (0.01%), Dried Cranberry (0.009%), Marigold (0.004%).

Against the range

One recipe, grain free, with potato starch, pea starch and dried peas doing the binding that cereal would normally handle. Meat meals make up 26% of the bag and 14% is named as turkey.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

318 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

24%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

26.7%

Fat

10%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10%

Carbs

50%

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

26%

Carbs

63.2%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

3.5%

Other

7.2%

Pricing & size