More Digestion Dry Food review

This one comes in at our Good band, which is also where the average adult dry bag settles. Two things do most of the lifting. Carbohydrate estimates at 36.4% of dry matter, which is genuinely low for a food built on cereals, and the gut ingredients carry printed figures instead of leaving the product name to make the case. Nutritional balance reads Good, held a little short of the top by ash at 10.9% of dry matter.

Ingredients, as declared: Fresh Chicken (24%), Chicken Meal (23%), Oats (20%), Whole Maize, Beet Pulp, Chicken Fat, Salmon Oil (3%), Chicken Digest, Dried Egg, Minerals, Brewers Yeast, Linseed, MOS (1000mg/kg), FOS (1000mg/kg), Glucosamine (850mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (850mg/kg), MSM (850mg/kg), Rosemary Extract (150mg/kg), Yucca Extract (100mg/kg), Cranberry Powder (80mg/kg), Marigold Meal (50mg/kg), Citrus Extract (50mg/kg)

Fresh chicken at 24% opens the list with chicken meal at 23% behind it. Once the kibble is baked the meal does most of the work, being already dry where fresh chicken is mostly water. Between them protein reaches 30.4% of dry matter.

Oats at 20% are the interesting swap. They cook soft and suit most digestions, and they carry their own fibre along with a useful set of micronutrients. Whole maize sits behind as the second cereal, and carbohydrate estimates at 36.4% of dry matter, low for a recipe with two grains in it.

The gut plan runs through several entries, not just one. Beet pulp supplies the fermentable fibre, taking crude fibre to 3.3% of dry matter, while MOS and FOS at 1000 mg/kg each feed the useful bacteria further down. Yucca extract at 100 mg/kg is the long standing answer to a pungent back end.

Fat is generous at 19.0% of dry matter, with chicken fat and salmon oil at 3% supplying it, and the food runs at 383 kcal per 100 grams. The bowl is energy dense and carries flavour well, and with a picky eater that is often half the battle.

Cranberry powder at 80 mg/kg is a small entry with a long reputation behind it for urinary comfort. At that figure it is a nod, not a treatment, and the recipe asks nothing of it.

Joint support is stronger here than the token sprinkle a label of this kind often carries, with glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and MSM each at 850 mg/kg. Rosemary extract at 150 mg/kg keeps the fats from turning, and marigold meal and citrus extract at 50 mg/kg round the list off.

Sold in 2kg and 12kg bags, at £5.17 a kilo.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at about 219 grams a day, assuming around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That comes to £1.13 a day. The label groups 10kg to 20kg together and asks 160 to 270 grams across that whole span, so use your dog's waistline to place it within the range.