Pero

Pero Super Start Premium Puppy review

Name: Pero Super Start Premium Puppy
Brand: Pero

57.3/100Good

DryPuppy

A chicken-led growth kibble that prints most of what an owner wants to check, calcium included. The 41% chicken is split into fresh meat and poultry meal, and the joint pair comes with doses on the panel. It lands in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Chicken-friendly puppies, 41% chicken with half of it fresh
Joint care with figures: glucosamine 170 mg/kg, chondroitin 80 mg/kg
Toy to medium pups, whose growth suits 1.75% calcium in dry matter
A steadier appetite, at 359 kcal per 100g
Owners who like the extras named, egg, seaweed and krill among them

Worth watching

Poultry meal and poultry fat name no bird
Maize gluten meal, plant protein doing work the meat does elsewhere
Fish from krill meal and salmon oil
Calcium above the usual large or giant breed plan. Put it to your vet

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

How this scores

How we score

57.3/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, though the calcium suits toy to medium best. Feed to the bag's growth chart, which runs from 30g a day up to 450g.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Pero Super Start Premium Puppy 57.3

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Transparency reaches Outstanding, and a few category terms in an otherwise itemised list keep it steady.

What's in it

Fresh chicken21%
Poultry meal20%Water already gone, so it yields more kibble per point. No bird named.
Rice23%Heads the starch.
Barley, oats
Maize gluten mealA by-product lifting the protein total; the entry we would happily see drop.
Poultry fat, chicken gravyThe fat names no bird either.
Whole egg powderProtein a pup uses easily.
Minerals, yeasts, malt extract, seaweedSeaweed for iodine.
Krill meal, salmon oilMarine fats for a growing brain and coat.
Herbs, glucosamine, chondroitin, yucca, cranberryJoint doses of 170 and 80 mg/kg; the herbs are seasoning.

Zinc arrives mostly as an amino acid chelate at 266 mg, with vitamins A, D3 and E and the other trace minerals all dosed.

Calcium at 1.75% of dry matter sits above where large and giant breed rearing is usually pitched. Take the figure to your vet.

Named ingredients

Chicken 41% (Fresh Chicken 21%, Poultry Meal 20%), Rice 23%, Barley, Maize Gluten Meal, Oats, Poultry Fat, Chicken Gravy, Whole Egg Powder, Minerals, Yeasts, Malt Extract, Seaweed, Krill Meal, Salmon Oil, Camomile, Nettle, Parsley, Glucosamine 170 mg/kg, Chondroitin 80 mg/kg, Yucca Extract, Cranberry

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

358.8 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

41.9%

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

45.2%

Carbs

51.5%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

1.9%

Other

1.2%

Pricing & size