Pure Pet Food Sensitive: Chicken with garden greens & sweet strawberries review

All four recipes sit in our Outstanding band and finish close together, so nothing here rides on rank. Protein and processing reads Outstanding on every recipe, transparency Excellent or better, and nutritional balance is the quieter line, Good on the salmon and the turkey and Average on the other two. The label explains it: named meat, dried and split into its parts, figures against every plant entry, and a potato and rice base holding a share a meatier recipe would give the animal. Air-dried food has no settled typical for us to hold this range against, so the band is a straight reading of what these four labels declare.

Ingredients, as declared: Chicken (32%, including Dehydrated Chicken 30%, Chicken Fat 2%), Potato, Brown Rice, Peas (4%), Linseed (4%), Vegetable Stock (3%), Minerals, Spinach (1%), Carrot (0.3%), Strawberry (0.1%), Broccoli (0.1%), Algae (0.075%, source of Omega 3), Prebiotic Chicory Root (0.05%), Prebiotic MOS (0.05%), Glucosamine (0.025%), Chondroitin (0.025%).

Pure splits its headline into parts, and that is the most useful thing about these labels. Chicken reads 32%, made up of 30% dehydrated chicken and 2% chicken fat, and Turkey reads 34% as 30% dehydrated turkey with 4% turkey fat. The Game gives 20% turkey, 10% duck and 4% turkey fat, while the Salmon shows 21% dehydrated salmon with 2% dehydrated white fish. The water is out of that meat before it is weighed. Those figures stand for considerably more animal than the same numbers would on a kibble made with fresh meat.

Potato leads underneath the meat, with brown rice following on three of the four, while the Salmon swaps rice for sweet potato at 16.5% and pea protein. Starch takes a real share here, the estimated carbohydrate landing between 43.3% and 47.4% of dry matter, and protein converts to between 29.5% and 31.8%. That is the trade a sensitive recipe often makes: fewer ingredients and gentler ones, with a steady base doing the filling.

The fatty acid work is shared across the range. Linseed at 4% brings the plant form of omega 3 on the three land recipes, and hemp oil at 4% does the job on the Salmon. Dried algae at 0.075% appears on every label as the longer chain omega 3 source. The upshot is worth knowing. No fish appears anywhere on the Chicken, the Turkey or the Game. That is unusual, and genuinely handy if fish is what your dog reacts to.

The tail of each label is the same short, honest list. Spinach at 1% and carrot at 0.3% lead the greens, with a berry and broccoli behind them at 0.1% each. Chicory root and MOS sit at 0.05% apiece as the prebiotic pair, and glucosamine and chondroitin close things out at 0.025% each for joints. Small figures, but every one is printed, and that habit is what makes a label trustworthy about its bigger entries.

The added panel is dosed line by line. Three recipes carry taurine at 500mg with L-carnitine at 125mg, alongside vitamins A, D3, E and C and a set of trace minerals. The Salmon runs a richer version of the same panel, doubling both the taurine and the L-carnitine, which reaches 250mg, and adding vitamin E at 200mg with beta carotene at 20mg. None of these labels declares a moisture figure, so the dry matter conversions here assume the 12% a food of this type usually holds.

Chicken at 32%, split as 30% dehydrated chicken and 2% chicken fat, the leanest headline of the four and the lowest fat figure of the land recipes at 10.8% of dry matter. Strawberry gives the recipe its flourish at 0.1% and spinach its greens at 1%. At 354 kcal per 100g it portions much like the Turkey, and chicken remains the meat most dogs have already proved they can eat.

Every recipe comes in 1kg bags.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition eats about 234 grams a day on the Turkey, 237 on the Chicken and the Game and 246 on the Salmon. Roughly 840 kcal a day is the basis (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate).