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Leader Adult Sensitive Medium Breed review

Name: Leader Adult Sensitive Medium Breed
Brand: Leader

58.4/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A short-label sensitive kibble for medium dogs, with one dehydrated meat at the head and a rice base underneath. Linseed, chicory inulin and a little seaweed do the settling work. Both recipes sit in our Good band, close enough that the protein is the only real choice.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium adult dogs; the label's feeding guide runs from 6kg to 30kg
Touchy digestion, on rice and linseed with chicory inulin as the prebiotic
Owners who want one named meat at the top: lamb or salmon
Dogs that do better on modest fat, topped up only by sunflower oil

Worth watching

Rice carries much of the bowl, about half the dry matter
Hydrolysed liver protein with no species beside it, which matters on a strict elimination diet

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

How this scores

How we score

58.4/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium-breed adults. If a vet has your dog on an exclusion plan, ask Leader which animal the liver protein comes from.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Leader Adult Sensitive Medium Breed 58.4
Salmon 57.4

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A tidy, conventional rice-led kibble; the two finish within a point of each other, so let your dog's history with lamb or salmon decide.

What's in it

Dehydrated lamb28%Water out before it goes in, so gram for gram more protein than fresh meat.
Brown rice, white riceBetween them most of the bowl; among the grains dogs digest most easily.
Sunflower oil
Potato protein
Whole linseedOmega 3 for skin and coat.
Minerals, alfalfa, seaweed meal
Hydrolysed liver proteinA palatant, broken down small; the animal is not named.
Yeast extract
Chicory inulinThe prebiotic, feeding the bacteria already in the gut.
Yucca schidigeraFor firmer, less pungent stools.

A fully dosed panel, with zinc partly as an amino acid chelate and added lysine and tryptophan.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated Lamb (28%), Brown Rice, White Rice, Sunflower Oil, Potato Protein, Whole Linseed, Minerals, Alfalfa, Seaweed Meal, Hydrolysed Liver Protein, Yeast Extract, Chicory Inulin, Yucca Schidigera.

Against the range

Meat: Dehydrated lamb, 28%; Salmon at 27% on the other.
Fish: None on the label; The salmon recipe is fish-led.
Protein, dry matter: 25.6%; 26.7% on the salmon.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 52.1%; 49.9% on the salmon.

The gentler analysis of the two, and the one for a dog kept off fish altogether.

Both recipes share one list apart from the meat: dehydrated lamb at 28% or dehydrated salmon at 27%, then brown and white rice doing most of the carrying. Sunflower oil tops up the fat, potato protein adds to the meat, and linseed, chicory inulin, yucca, alfalfa and seaweed meal sit behind. Hydrolysed liver protein appears on both with no species named. Carbohydrate runs at roughly half the dry matter, 49.9% to 52.1%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

338.1 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

23%

Fat

11%

Fibre

2.1%

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

25.6%

Fat

12.2%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

52.1%

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

29%

Carbs

57.4%

Veg

2.5%

Oils

6.3%

Other

4.8%

Pricing & size