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Lovejoys Original Dry Puppy: Turkey & Rice review

Name: Lovejoys Original Dry Puppy: Turkey & Rice
Brand: Lovejoys

65.5/100Good

DryPuppy

A plain-speaking turkey and rice puppy kibble with a strong analysis for growth: 30.0% protein and 15.5% fat. Turkey is the only meat named anywhere, and every added vitamin and mineral is printed with its dose. No moisture and no calcium figure is declared, and that keeps it in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies doing well on turkey
Homes happy to feed grain, with rice at 28.0% and whole oats behind it
Owners who check the added nutrients line by line
Steadier pups. It gives 359 kcal per 100g where the typical puppy kibble gives 376
Coat and skin, helped by whole linseed at 2.5% and salmon oil at 1.0%

Worth watching

No calcium figure, which a large or giant breed rearing plan needs
No moisture declared, so the dry matter figures rest on an assumed 8%
Pea protein high on the list, lifting protein without being meat

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

How this scores

How we score

65.5/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. For a pup heading to large or giant, get the calcium figure from Lovejoys before it becomes the everyday food.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Turkey 65.5

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A strong growth analysis and an open label, held back by the moisture and calcium lines the bag leaves out.

What's in it

Turkey meat meal29.0%Meat dried and rendered before it goes in, so the share arrives in the kibble near enough as printed.
Rice28.0%Almost as large as the meat.
Whole oatsGentle and familiar, with useful fibre.
Pea proteinA refined byproduct of pea processing, and less digestible than animal protein.
Turkey fat, turkey digestThe same bird again.
Whole linseed, salmon oil2.5%, 1.0%Plant and marine omega 3.
Alfalfa pellets, seaweed meal0.5% seaweedTrace minerals.
Fructo-oligosaccharides
Yucca schidigera extract200 mg/kgFor stool odour.

Every dose printed: vitamin E at 190 mg/kg, zinc at 100 mg/kg, iron at 60 mg/kg and selenium at 0.10 mg/kg as sodium selenite, the more common and less bioavailable form.

No calcium figure on the label. For a pup that will be large or giant, ask Lovejoys for it.

Salmon oil is on the list, so the turkey-only meat list is not an elimination diet.

Named ingredients

Turkey Meat Meal (29.0%), Rice (28.0%), Whole Oats, Pea Protein, Turkey Fat, Turkey Digest, Whole Linseed (2.5%), Salmon Oil (1.0%), Alfalfa Pellets, Seaweed Meal (0.5%), Fructo-oligosaccharides (Prebiotic FOS), Extract of Yucca Schidigera (200 mg/kg)

Against the range

One turkey and rice growth kibble in which every animal ingredient names turkey, apart from the salmon oil. Rice and whole oats carry a substantial starch load, and pea protein lifts the protein reading.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

359 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

15.5%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

16.8%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

38.6%

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

33.6%

Carbs

55.5%

Veg

2.3%

Oils

4.5%

Other

4.1%

Pricing & size