Pero

Pero High Meat & Grain Free: Pork & Sweet Potato with Apple review

Name: Pero High Meat & Grain Free: Pork & Sweet Potato with Apple
Brand: Pero

61.4/100Good

DryAdultSenior

Flavour

Grain-free dry food built on one named animal per recipe, turkey or pork, both in our Good band. The root vegetables are doing real work in the bowl. Read them as everyday grain-free feeding; neither is a lean sports food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept off grain. The starch is potato, sweet potato and peas
An unfamiliar animal. Many dogs have never met pork
Older dogs, with glucosamine and chondroitin on both labels
Digestions that need settling, two prebiotics beside beet pulp
A senior and an adult fed from the same bag

Worth watching

Chicken oil in both, plus chicken gravy or digest, so neither is chicken free
Salmon oil in both, so neither is fish free
The pork label leaves out its joint doses, moisture and calcium

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

How this scores

How we score

61.4/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Both are listed for adults and seniors of every size. Weigh the first few bowls, as the label's daily bands are wide.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Pero High Meat & Grain Free 64.4
Pork 61.4

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Both earn their place on a named animal and root starch, the turkey a little ahead of the pork.

What's in it

Pork: fresh pork 21%, pork meal 19%40%Unusually front-loaded with fresh meat.
Sweet potato36%
Peas, pea proteinPea protein lifts the plant side's contribution.
Pure chicken oilPoultry, though no chicken meat is listed.
Alfalfa, minerals
Chicken digest, yeastsThe chicken palatant.
Linseed, salmon oilFish, so not fish free.
Dried apples, cranberry0.3% applesApple for the name.
FOS, MOS, yucca extract
Glucosamine, chondroitinNo doses printed here.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, zinc as an amino acid chelate and as sulphate, manganese, copper, iodine, and selenised yeast in place of selenite, with rosemary extract as antioxidant.

Pork is still uncommon in dog food, so this is a genuine change of animal for a dog that has worked through the usual birds.

Named ingredients

Pork (Fresh Pork 21% & Pork Meal 19%) 40%, Sweet Potato 36%, Peas, Pure Chicken Oil, Pea Protein, Alfalfa, Minerals, Chicken Digest, Yeasts, Linseed, Salmon Oil, Dried Apples 0.3%, Cranberry, Prebiotic FOS, Prebiotic MOS, Yucca Extract, Glucosamine, Chondroitin

Against the range

Meat: Pork: 21% fresh, 19% meal; Turkey on the other, meal-led.
Ash: 10%; 6.5% on the turkey.
Moisture and calcium: Not declared; Both declared on the turkey.
Selenium: Selenised yeast; Sodium selenite on the turkey.

The change-of-animal choice, a little behind the turkey on our scoring.

No cereal anywhere. Each recipe leads with one named animal at around 40% and prints how it is built from meal and fresh meat; the meal does the heavy lifting, since it goes in already dry. Root starch fills the rest, and the carbohydrate estimate sits at or above the typical adult dry food.

Both use chicken oil as the main added fat and a chicken palatant, so chicken is in the small print of each. Linseed and salmon oil bring omega 3 from two directions, with alfalfa, MOS, FOS and a glucosamine and chondroitin pair on both lists. Fat is declared at 10% in each.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

326.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

25%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.9%

Carbs

47.7%

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

41.2%

Carbs

51.2%

Veg

2.1%

Oils

3.6%

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size