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Lifestage Grain Free Puppy Dry Food: Salmon with Haddock review

Name: Lifestage Grain Free Puppy Dry Food: Salmon with Haddock
Brand: Lifestage

72.1/100Excellent

DryPuppy

Flavour

A grain-free puppy pair that puts the meat share in print line by line, with the joint ingredients written into the list itself. One bag is chicken led with turkey and salmon; the other keeps to fish. Both sit in our Excellent band, above where most puppy kibble finishes.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Grain-free homes. Sweet potato, potato and peas do all the binding
Puppies of any size, toy through to giant
Owners who want joints thought about early, with glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane and chondroitin sulphate on both lists
A choice between poultry and fish in the same range
Pups on a prebiotic routine, fructooligosaccharides declared in each

Worth watching

No calcium figure on either label. If your pup will be large or giant, ask the maker for it
Energy is our estimate on both, so treat the calorie side as a guide
More than one species in each bag, so neither works as a single protein diet

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

How this scores

How we score

72.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies from toy to giant. For a large-breed pup, get the calcium figure from Lifestage before the first bag.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Chicken Turkey 75.8
Salmon 72.1

All two Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

The poultry recipe edges the fish one, and only the missing calcium figure stops the pair climbing further.

What's in it

Freshly prepared salmon30%Leads a 55% fish total.
White fish meal, salmon meal16%, 4%Two different fish, so not a single species diet.
Salmon stock, salmon oil4%, 1%
Sweet potato15%
Potato, peaspeas 12%Peas well below the fish.
Rapeseed oilJoins the salmon oil on fats.
Beet pulp, linseed2%, 1%Linseed adds plant omega 3.
Minerals, asparagus
Yeast hydrolysate, FOSThe label's source of mannanoligosaccharides and beta glucans.
Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphateNo quantities printed.

Taurine at 1,000 mg/kg, which fish-led recipes often carry, plus zinc, iron and selenium with figures.

No calcium figure on the label. Ask Lifestage before rearing a large or giant breed on it.

Named ingredients

Salmon And White Fish (55%), Freshly Prepared Salmon (30%), White Fish Meal (16%), Salmon Meal (4%), Salmon Stock (4%), Salmon Oil (1%), Sweet Potato (15%), Potato, Peas (12%), Rapeseed Oil, Beet Pulp (2%), Linseed (1%), Minerals, Asparagus, Yeast Hydrolysate (A Natural Source Of Mannanoligosaccharides And Beta Glucans), Fructooligosaccharides (Fos), Glucosamine, Methylsulfonylmethane, Chondroitin Sulphate

Against the range

Other animals on the label: None, fish only; Chicken, turkey and salmon in the other
Peas: 12%; 5% in the poultry recipe
Fat, dry matter: 17.6%; 16.5% in the poultry
Taurine: Added; Not on the poultry panel

For a pup that does badly on poultry, this is the bag to choose.

Both labels lead with a headline animal percentage and then break it down entry by entry. Each splits into a freshly prepared share, a dried or meal share, a fat or oil and a stock or gravy, all named to species. Neither recipe contains grain: sweet potato does most of the binding, with potato and peas behind it and beet pulp for fibre.

Glucosamine, methylsulfonylmethane, chondroitin sulphate and fructooligosaccharides are named on both, with no quantity printed. The added mineral panels carry figures on each, copper at 15 mg/kg and iodine at 2 mg/kg. What varies is the animal: poultry with salmon in one bag, fish alone in the other.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

363.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

27%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.7%

Fat

17.6%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

41.7%

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

77.9%

Carbs

20.7%

Oils

0.7%

Other

0.7%

Pricing & size