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Pets Love Fresh Freeze Dried Complete: Chicken, Sweet Potato, Peas and Apple review

Name: Pets Love Fresh Freeze Dried Complete: Chicken, Sweet Potato, Peas and Apple
Brand: Pets Love Fresh

67.5/100Good

Freeze-driedAdult

Flavour

80% meat, freeze dried into pieces you pour, in beef or chicken, each kept to a single animal. The supplement pack is unusually open about its contents, though nothing in it carries a dose. Both recipes sit in our Good band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Fresh feeding without a freezer full of trays
Single-meat plans and elimination trials
Older dogs and stiff movers, with glucosamine and chondroitin in the pack
Travelling with a dog: light pieces, quick to serve
Fussy eaters, fed dry or softened in warm water

Worth watching

Small portions that are easy to overpour
A joint pair with no named source
Listed for adults only

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

How this scores

How we score

67.5/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Weigh portions until your eye adjusts; the energy figures are estimates, so let condition fine-tune them.

Food type

Freeze-dried

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 67.5
Beef 67.2

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

A Good reading earned in a category where the typical food already sits at the top.

What's in it

Chicken80%The only animal. Freeze dried at low temperature, no heat.
Sweet potato10%The starch.
Peas4%Fibre and a little plant protein, used as seasoning, not filler.
Apple4%
Vitamin and mineral pack3%Glucosamine, chondroitin, green tea, yucca, seaweed, chicory root, dandelion root and hawthorn leaf, none of them dosed.

Glucosamine has no named source and commonly comes from shellfish; ask the maker if shellfish is on your avoid list.

Named ingredients

Chicken 80%, Sweet Potato 10%, Peas 4%, Apple 4%, Vitamin & Mineral Pack 3% (incl. Glucosamine, Chondroitin, Green Tea, Yucca, Seaweed, Chicory Root, Dried Dandelion Root, Dried Hawthorn Leaf)

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 50.9%; 32.9% on the beef
Fat, dry matter: 21.4%; 47.2% on the beef
Ash, dry matter: 14.3%; 7.6% on the beef; more bone, usually

The leaner half of the pair, so portions run noticeably larger.

Two freeze-dried recipes on one shape: a single named meat at 80%, sweet potato at 10%, and peas and apple at 4% each. A 3% vitamin and mineral pack names its contents but doses none of them. No fish oil, second meat or unnamed fat appears on either.

Despite the shared build, the analyses differ sharply: the beef is far fattier, the chicken far leaner and higher in ash.

Price and value

Both recipes come in a 150g bag holding 80 pieces.

The target for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition is roughly 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That is about 156 grams a day on the beef, or 214 grams on the chicken. The difference between those two figures follows the energy in each recipe and nothing else.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

393.1 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

50%

Fat

21%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

14%

Moisture

1.8%

Dry weight

Protein

50.9%

Fat

21.4%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

14.3%

Carbs

11.5%

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

79.2%

Carbs

13.9%

Veg

Other

Pricing & size