Salubrious Healthy Dog Food

Salubrious Healthy Dog Food Cold-Pressed Grain and Gluten Free: Beef review

Name: Salubrious Healthy Dog Food Cold-Pressed Grain and Gluten Free: Beef
Brand: Salubrious Healthy Dog Food

64.3/100Good

Cold pressedPuppyAdult

Flavour

Four cold-pressed, grain-free recipes that change the headline animal and leave the rest alone, all level in our Good band. Cold pressing usually leans on cereals to bind, and here roots do the job instead. The pellet breaks apart in water rather than swelling in the stomach.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept off wheat and every other cereal
Rotating the animal without changing anything else
Older dogs feeling their joints
Homes running several ages at once, from puppies to seniors
Picky eaters, with a sample bag of roughly 250 g to try first

Worth watching

Salmon protein and whole egg on all four labels
Cane molasses in the beef, lamb and salmon
No calcium figure on the chicken

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

How this scores

How we score

64.3/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. For a large breed puppy, pick the beef, lamb or salmon, whose calcium sits at 1.22% of dry matter, or ask the maker about the chicken.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Salmon 64.4
Beef 64.3
Chicken 63.9
Lamb 63.7

All four Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The four sit close enough together that your dog's tastes should decide, and a label this open gives you a lot for what it asks.

What's in it

Beef37%The largest animal share of the four.
Sweet potato, potato27% and 20%The same root base under all four, and what sets the carbohydrate level.
Salmon protein5%On every label, so fish is in every bag.
Beef tallow5%The fat matches the headline.
Whole egg5%
Beet pulp, cane molasses, brewer's yeast, liver gravy, inulin, alfalfaThe molasses is a small added sugar. The liver gravy names no animal.
Salmon oil, sunflower oil
Herbal blend: chicory root, parsley, thyme, nettle leaf and eight more0.25%A dozen plants sharing 0.25%. Seasoning, and the label is honest about it.
Glucosamine, collagen, green lipped mussel, chondroitin sulphate0.1% down to 0.05%Collagen at 0.08% is found only in this recipe.

Vitamins A, D3 and E only; the trace elements go undosed on this panel.

Named ingredients

Beef (37%), sweet potato (27%), potato (20%), salmon protein (5%), beef tallow (5%), liver gravy, whole egg (5%), beet pulp, cane molasses, brewer's yeast, vitamins and minerals, prebiotic (inulin), alfalfa, salmon oil, sunflower oil. Herbal blend (0.25% chicory root, parsley, thyme, nettle leaf, rosemary, camomileleaf, sage, yucca extract, rosehip, dandelion leaf, turmeric, aniseed). Joint care blend, glucosamine (0.1%), collagen (0.08%), green lipped mussel (0.05%), chondroitin sulphate (0.05%).

Against the range

Meat: Beef at 37%; 36% lamb or salmon, 32% chicken.
Joint pack: Adds collagen at 0.08%; No collagen in the others.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 49.0%; Down to 44.7% in the salmon.

The most meat and the fullest joint pack in the range.

All four share one grain-free base: sweet potato at 27%, potato at 20%, salmon protein and whole egg at 5% each, then beet pulp, inulin and alfalfa. Each recipe brings a fat from its own animal, so the headline runs right through, and a joint pack led by glucosamine at 0.1% closes every label.

The named animal runs from 32% to 37% and protein converts to 28.9% of dry matter in every recipe. What varies is the fat, the cane molasses (absent from the chicken) and the additive panel, far fuller on the chicken.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

332 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

10.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

28.9%

Fat

11.3%

Fibre

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

49%

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

47.3%

Carbs

47.3%

Oils

Other

0.3%

Pricing & size