Lovejoys

Lovejoys Original Dry Adult: Duck & Rice review

Name: Lovejoys Original Dry Adult: Duck & Rice
Brand: Lovejoys

56.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

A plain, rice-led range for feeding a dog simply: same bowl each time, a different animal in each bag. Three of the four sit in our Good band. The fish lands a step lower in Average, purely because its meal is never pinned to a species.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A plain recipe you can read start to finish
Dogs that get on well with rice, as easy a carbohydrate as there is
Rotating animals, since all four are built alike
Keeping things regular, with beet or peas, alfalfa and FOS in support
A dog kept to lamb alone, where every animal entry stays lamb

Worth watching

Poultry digest and an unnamed fish meal on the duck and fish recipes
Whole barley in the fish and lamb brings gluten with it

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

How this scores

How we score

56.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. About 240 grams a day suits a 15kg adult on any of the four, and the label's range runs from 180 to 300 grams.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Lamb 59.5
Turkey 57.2
Duck 56.2
Fish 48.7

Four recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Rice leading every list caps how far any of them can climb, and the fish drops a band because its meal names no species.

What's in it

Rice48.0%
Duck meat meal26.0%Rendered and dried, so more animal content than the same share of fresh meat.
Whole oats
Whole linseed3.0%Plant omega 3; give a coat some weeks to answer.
Duck fat
Poultry digestAny bird, sprayed on for palatability.
Sugar beet pellets
Alfalfa pelletsPlant fibre and protein.
Seaweed meal0.5%Iodine and trace minerals.
FOS, yucca schidigera extractyucca 200 mg/kgA prebiotic, and yucca to take the edge off stool odour.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium as sulphates and selenite, the less readily absorbed forms, each printed per kilo.

The digest is poultry, not duck, so the recipe is not quite single bird.

Named ingredients

Rice (48.0%), Duck Meat Meal (26.0%), Whole Oats, Whole Linseed (3.0%), Duck Fat, Poultry Digest, Sugar Beet Pellets, Alfalfa Pellets, Seaweed Meal (0.5%), Fructo-oligosaccharides (Prebiotic FOS), Extract of Yucca Schidigera (200 mg/kg)

Against the range

Meat meal: Duck 26.0%; 26% to 28% across the range.
Second grain: Whole oats; Shared with the turkey; barley on the fish and lamb.
Digest: Poultry; Lamb and turkey name their own.

A change for a dog tired of the usual birds, and one of the easier meats to digest.

Four adult kibbles built to one plan with the animal swapped out. Rice leads every recipe, from 41% in the lamb to 49% in the turkey, with a meat meal at 26% to 28% behind it. Whole oats back the duck and turkey, whole barley the fish and lamb, and every recipe takes its omega 3 from whole linseed.

What varies most is the naming. Duck, lamb and turkey meals say which animal they came from; the fish meal does not, and the duck and fish both carry poultry digest. Carbohydrate runs between 51.0% and 53.8% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

335 kcal/100g

Protein

23%

Fat

10%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

7.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

8.2%

Carbs

52.1%

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

30.3%

Carbs

60.9%

Veg

1.6%

Oils

3.3%

Other

Pricing & size