Markus Muhle

Markus Muhle Lupo Sensitive 24/10 Dry Food review

Name: Markus Muhle Lupo Sensitive 24/10 Dry Food
Brand: Markus Muhle

69/100Good

Cold pressedPuppyAdult

The fuller version of Markus Mühle's pressed grain-free recipe, with dried chicken at 33% now ahead of the potato flour. Protein and fat both step up, and the vitamin and mineral panel is printed in full down to the trace elements. It covers puppies as well as adults and lands in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies and adults in one household, on the same feeding guide
Dogs kept off grain. Potato flour and parsnips do the work cereals usually do
A dog settled on chicken, with no second meat named
Owners who want zinc, copper, manganese and iodine each printed with a dose
Fast eaters and sensitive stomachs, as pressed pellets break up quickly once wet
A digestion that needs a quiet life, with dried chicory and milk thistle among the extras

Worth watching

Salmon oil at 2%, which rules out a strictly fish-free plan
Chicken as the one meat: a strength for a sensitive dog, a limit for one that reacts to poultry
Pellets that crumble more readily than extruded kibble, so keep the bag sealed and dry

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

How this scores

How we score

69/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies and adults of every size. Grain free here is about the kind of starch, not the amount, so check your dog copes with a carbohydrate-led pellet.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Lupo Sensitive 24/10 Dry Food 69.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Better on the analysis than the leaner 20/8 pressing, with the meat moved to the front; the starch a pellet needs to hold together without cereal keeps it where it is.

What's in it

Dried ground chicken meat33%Dried and ground before pressing. The only named animal.
Potato flour32%The starch the pellet needs to hold its shape; carbohydrate converts to 51.7% of dry matter.
Dried ground parsnips, beet pulpFibre.
Milk thistle5%House style, with no label claim.
Cold-pressed vegetable oils: linseed, canola, borage seed5%All three named.
Algae powder
Salmon oil2%Means it is not a true single-source recipe.
Dried moor, dried chicory1.5% eachChicory is a prebiotic the leaner pressing does without.
Healing earth, stinging nettle, dandelion leaves, yucca1% each, yucca unstated

A complete vitamin list, with iron, cobalt, manganese, copper, zinc and iodine each dosed by the kilo, zinc at 65mg.

Named ingredients

33% dried ground chicken meat, 32% potato flour, dried ground parsnips, beet pulp, 5% milk thistle, 5%, cold-pressed mixed vegetable oils (contains: linseed oil, canola oil, borage seed oil), algae powder, 2%, salmon oil, 1.5% dried moor, 1.5% dried chicory, 1% healing earth, 1% dried stinging nettle, 1% dried, dandelion leaves, yucca schidigera

Against the range

Dried ground chicken at 33% leads potato flour at 32%, with parsnips and beet pulp behind. Chicken is the only named animal, and salmon oil at 2% the only other thing from farm or sea. The pellets are pressed at low temperature, and the herbal tail is long.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

335.6 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

24%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

7.4%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

Carbs

51.7%

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

33%

Carbs

38.1%

Veg

10.3%

Oils

2.8%

Other

15.9%

Pricing & size