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PitPat Puppy Dry review

Name: PitPat Puppy Dry
Brand: PitPat

59.8/100Good

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A growth kibble in our Good band, with rice at the top of the list and dried poultry protein, broken out into chicken and duck, behind it. The tail of the recipe is where it gets interesting: psyllium, chicory root and green-lipped mussel. Over that sits a vitamin panel that runs as far as taurine and L-carnitine.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Busy, fast-growing pups: 394 kcal per 100g against the 376 typical
A dosed supplement panel, with taurine at 1000 mg/kg and L-carnitine at 200 mg/kg
Digestions that like a hand, with beet fibre, psyllium husks and chicory root
An early nod to joints from dried green-lipped mussel

Worth watching

No calcium figure on a food offered for every size of pup; ask the maker if yours will finish big
Chicken, duck and salmon, plus poultry fat and hydrolysed protein with no bird named, so an exclusion diet cannot rest here

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

How this scores

How we score

59.8/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. What a puppy eats rises steeply and then eases as adult size comes into view, so measure against the growth chart and keep adjusting.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

PitPat Puppy Dry 59.8

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

An even reading across every pillar, held where it is by an accumulation of small gaps more than any single fault.

What's in it

RiceEasily digested, and it shows where the bulk of the recipe comes from.
Poultry protein, dried (chicken, duck)26.0%, 4.0%Dried, so the shares carry into the kibble much as printed.
Poultry fatNo bird named.
Potato proteinA plant protein to top up the total.
Salmon, dried4.0%Marine protein and its fats.
Poultry protein, hydrolysedAlso unnamed.
Beet fibre, plant fibre, crushed carob
Minerals, yeast
Ground chicory root, psyllium husksInulin for the gut bacteria; psyllium steadies things through the gut.
New Zealand green-lipped mussel, driedWhole mussel meat with no dose printed.

The generous part: a full vitamin panel with vitamin C, taurine and L-carnitine, and zinc and copper as glycine chelates.

No calcium figure. A large-breed puppy needs that number, so ask PitPat for it.

No moisture declared; the dry matter column assumes 8%.

Named ingredients

Rice, poultry protein (dried) (chicken 26.0%, duck 4.0%), poultry fat, potato protein, salmon (dried) 4.0%, poultry protein (hydrolysed), beet fibre, plant fibre, carob (crushed), minerals, yeast, chicory root (ground) (natural source of inulin), psyllium husks, New Zealand green-lipped mussel meat (Perna canaliculus) (dried).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

394.4 kcal/100g

Protein

30%

Fat

17%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

32.6%

Fat

18.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

6.5%

Carbs

39.9%

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

36.3%

Carbs

49.4%

Veg

0.3%

Oils

8.2%

Other

5.8%

Pricing & size