Leader

Leader Adult Supreme Medium Breed review

Name: Leader Adult Supreme Medium Breed
Brand: Leader

59/100Good

DryAdult

An easy bowl for a medium dog that eats chicken happily, and Good on our reading. Dehydrated chicken leads at 27%, a figure that stays close to what ends up in the kibble. Brown and white rice do the carrying, and the starch estimate sits a touch above the middle at 48.1% of dry matter.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Medium adult dogs, the frame the kibble and chart are drawn around
Owners who want the meat named outright as chicken
Joints that could use a hand: glucosamine and chondroitin are both listed
Fussier eaters, with hydrolysed liver protein for flavour
Homes happy to feed grain

Worth watching

Chicken meat and chicken fat, so a chicken sensitivity rules it out
Hydrolysed liver protein never names its species, which breaks a strict exclusion diet
No amounts against the joint pair

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

How this scores

How we score

59/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for medium adult dogs. The chart puts a 15kg dog at 205 grams a day, so weigh the first bowls and let the waistline decide.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Medium

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Leader Adult Supreme Medium Breed 59.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Nothing drags it down on its own; it does the ordinary things properly and does not reach beyond them.

What's in it

Dehydrated chicken27%Water already gone, so the declared figure and the kibble stay close.
Brown rice, white riceSits well with most digestions.
Chicken fat
Dehulled oatsFibre, manganese, selenium and B vitamins.
Whole linseedPlant omega 3, which a dog converts slowly. Give a coat months, not weeks.
Minerals, alfalfa
Hydrolysed liver protein, yeast extractFlavour. The liver's species is not printed.
Chicory inulin, dried cranberries, dried beetrootPrebiotic fibre, then cranberries with their urinary association.
Rosemary, ginger, turmeric, yucca schidigera
Glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulphateA welcome extra with no printed amounts.

Vitamins A, D3 and E and a fully dosed mineral panel, with zinc given twice, partly as a chelate the gut takes up more readily, and selenium as sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

Dehydrated Chicken (27%), Brown Rice, White Rice, Chicken Fat, Dehulled Oats, Whole Linseed, Minerals, Alfalfa, Hydrolysed Liver Protein, Yeast Extract, Chicory Inulin, Dried Cranberries, Dried Beetroot, Rosemary, Ginger, Turmeric, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Yucca Schidigera, Chondroitin Sulphate.

Against the range

One chicken and rice kibble. Dehydrated chicken heads the list with its figure printed, rice and oats carry the starch, and a long tail of small extras runs from linseed and chicory inulin to an undosed joint pair. The trace minerals all carry a printed dose.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

359.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

23%

Fat

15%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

6.5%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

25.6%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

7.2%

Carbs

48.1%

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

28.5%

Carbs

57.9%

Veg

1.9%

Oils

6.4%

Other

5.3%

Pricing & size