Lifestage

Lifestage Grain Free Snap Pots review

Name: Lifestage Grain Free Snap Pots
Brand: Lifestage

74/100Excellent

WetAdult

Small, properly meaty pots of chicken at 60%, and they reach our Excellent band. They are rich with it: 124 kcal per 100g against 97 for the typical adult wet food. The label prints the fresh weight behind every dried vegetable.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Smaller dogs, for whom a 90 g pot is close to a single serving
Fussy eaters who want something dense and strongly meaty
One counted animal: chicken at 60%, with salmon oil the only other animal entry
Cereal-free bowls, with dried potato and potato starch doing the binding
Spooning over dry food, which a pot this size does best

Worth watching

A 15 kg dog fed on these alone works through seven or eight pots a day
Salmon oil on the list, so not fish free
Fat at 34.0% of dry matter, so portion carefully for a dog carrying weight
One recipe only, with nowhere to rotate if a dog tires of chicken

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

How this scores

How we score

74/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs, and best suited as a whole diet to a small one. If chicken has been a problem before, this is not the pot to test on.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Lifestage Grain Free Snap Pots 74.0

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Chicken at 60% and kept-down starch are the strength; potato carrying more of the plant side than the peas and carrot is what holds it level with the shelf.

What's in it

Chicken60%Highly digestible and popular, and for the same reason the meat that draws the most reactions.
Dried potato4%Printed as equivalent to 17% potato.
Dried peas1.5%Equivalent to 4.7% peas.
Minerals
Dried carrot0.65%Equivalent to 5.7% carrot; vitamin A and soluble fibre.
Potato starchPurely mechanical: it holds the pot together.
Salmon oil, sunflower oil0.2% eachSmall but named. The salmon oil means fish.
Dried tomato, dried chicory root0.1% chicoryChicory for its inulin.
Dried yucca schidigera0.015%An old trick for less pungent stools.
Blackcurrant, citrus extract, rosemary, pomegranateTrace level; rosemary keeps the fats from turning.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron and manganese, a short panel with every dose printed.

Named ingredients

Chicken: Chicken (60%), Dried Potato (4% equivalent to 17% Potato), Dried Peas (1.5% equivalent to 4.7% Peas), Minerals, Dried Carrot (0.65% equivalent to 5.7% Carrot), Potato Starch, Salmon Oil (0.2%), Sunflower Oil (0.2%), Dried Tomato, Dried Chicory Root (0.1% - source of inulin), Dried Yucca Schidigera (0.015%), Dried Blackcurrant, Citrus Extract, Dried Rosemary, Dried Pomegranate.

Against the range

One recipe in 90 g pots: chicken at 60% with no second meat, dried potato and dried peas behind it, each dried ingredient printed with its fresh equivalent. Potato starch binds, salmon and sunflower oil are named, and a trace tail of fruit and herbs closes the list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

124 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

34%

Fibre

Ash

12%

Carbs

10%

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

60%

Added water

23.8%

Carbs

12.8%

Veg

1.5%

Oils

0.4%

Other

1.6%