Lifestage

Lifestage Grain Free Adult Dry Food: Chicken with Sweet Potato & Herbs review

Name: Lifestage Grain Free Adult Dry Food: Chicken with Sweet Potato & Herbs
Brand: Lifestage

74.6/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

Excellent in all four flavours, and the same recipe each time with only the meat swapped. That makes the animal a free choice: chicken, lamb, turkey or salmon and trout. Naming the animal in every meat entry and leaving cereal out is what lifts transparency to Outstanding.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Grain-free feeding, with sweet potato, peas and potato holding the starch
Narrowing down a food reaction. The chicken, lamb and turkey bags each name one animal and no other
Rotation feeders, given four bags built the same way
Dogs that have gone off chicken
Busy adults of any size, with fat between 12.0% and 14.0%

Worth watching

An omega 3 supplement on every bag with no source given, one to check if your house keeps off fish
Two fish in the salmon and trout bag, so it cannot tell you which one a dog reacts to
Pea protein in the lamb, lifting its protein figure without more meat

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

How this scores

How we score

74.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Check whether your dog has any history with the animal on the bag you pick, then let the waistline set where in the feeding span it belongs.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 74.6
Turkey 72.6
Salmon 72.5
Lamb 70.9

All four Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The four finish level, so there is no ranking hidden in the flavour: choose by the animal your dog eats well.

What's in it

Chicken: freshly prepared, chicken meal55% (25%, 23%)The largest meat declaration in the range.
Chicken gravy, chicken fat5%, 4%Counted inside the 55%, and lighter on protein than the meat.
Sweet potato26%
Potato, peas6%
Beet pulp, linseed1% eachFibre and plant omega 3.
Minerals, vegetable stock
Omega 3 supplementNothing says what it is made from.
Herbs: marjoram, basil, oregano, sage, thyme, parsleyThis bag's finishing note.
FOS, MOSPrebiotics, named without a figure.

Trace minerals as plain sulphates and zinc oxide, each dosed per kilo, with selenium as sodium selenite.

Named ingredients

Chicken (55%), Freshly Prepared Chicken (25%), Chicken Meal (23%), Chicken Gravy (5%), Chicken Fat (4%), Sweet Potato (26%), Potato, Peas (6%), Beet Pulp (1%), Linseed (1%), Minerals, Vegetable Stock, Omega 3 Supplement, Herbs, Marjoram, Basil, Oregano, Sage, Thyme, Parsley, Fructooligosaccharides (Fos), Mannanoligosaccharides (Mos)

Against the range

Meat: 55% chicken; 50% on the other three.
Protein, as fed: 27.0%; 24% to 26% on the others.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 42.8%; 43.9% to 45.0% on the others.

For a busy dog with no history against poultry, the obvious pick.

Each bag uses one animal four ways: freshly prepared meat, a dried meal of the same animal, its fat or oil and its gravy, declared at 50% or more. The meal, already dry when it goes in, runs from 18% on the lamb to 23% on the chicken. Sweet potato at 23% to 26%, peas and potato replace cereal, with beet pulp and linseed behind.

An unnamed omega 3 supplement and FOS and MOS close every list. Only the finishing herb or vegetable changes, plus pea protein on the lamb.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

350 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

27%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.7%

Fat

15.4%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

42.8%

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

74%

Carbs

22.6%

Oils

2.7%

Other

0.7%

Pricing & size