Lifestage

Lifestage Grain Free Adult Dry Food: Turkey with Sweet Potato & Cranberry review

Name: Lifestage Grain Free Adult Dry Food: Turkey with Sweet Potato & Cranberry
Brand: Lifestage

72.6/100Excellent

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

72.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

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

Turkey

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

Turkey: freshly prepared, turkey meal50% (25%, 19%)Naturally lighter than chicken.
Turkey fat, turkey gravy3% each
Sweet potato26%
Peas, potato9%
Beet pulp, linseed2% each
Minerals, vegetable stock
Cranberry
Omega 3 supplementSource not given.
FOS, MOS

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

Named ingredients

Turkey (50%), Freshly Prepared Turkey (25%), Turkey Meal (19%), Turkey Fat (3%), Turkey Gravy (3%), Sweet Potato (26%), Peas (9%), Potato, Beet Pulp (2%), Linseed (2%), Minerals Vegetable Stock, Cranberry, Omega 3 Supplement, Fructooligosaccharides (Fos), Mannanoligosaccharides (Mos)

Against the range

Fat, as fed: 12.0%; The leanest; the others run 13% to 14.0%.
Energy: 336.5 kcal per 100g; The lowest of the four.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 45.0%; 42.8% to 43.9% on the others.

The version for an adult dog inclined to put on weight.

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

336.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

12%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.6%

Fat

13.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.9%

Carbs

45%

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

69.8%

Carbs

26.6%

Oils

2.2%

Other

1.4%

Pricing & size