Step Up Dry Food Adult Grain Free: Beef With Sweet Potato review

1. Beef 60.7
2. Chicken 59.1

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Level with the norm: meal-only meat and a high starch share pull one way, generous percentages and dosed minerals pull the other.

• Meat and bone18%No species named. The 9.5% ash shows the bone.
• Beef greaves9%Pressed residue left once the fat is rendered out.
• Dried sweet potato25%More fibre and vitamin A than ordinary potato.
• Dried potato, dried peas9% peas
• Poultry fat5.5%Birds in the beef bowl.
• Poultry gravy, beet pulp
• Dried apple1%Equal to 6.5% fresh apple, a scrupulous touch.
• Salmon oil0.5%Marine omega 3s.
• Dried chicoryInulin for the gut bacteria.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium as sulphates and oxides, each dosed.

Meat and bone with no species, plus poultry fat, so this cannot anchor a strict elimination diet.

Meat

27% beef and meat meal

26% poultry meal, 21% of it chicken.

Ash

9.5%

7.5% in the chicken.

Calcium, dry matter

2.3%

1.31% in the chicken.

Nutritional balance

Poor

Average in the chicken.

The one for a dog that eats better on red meat, with the poultry fat in mind.

Both recipes open on a concentrated meat meal, then dried sweet potato at 25%, dried potato and dried peas at 9%. No wheat, maize or rice appears, so the grain free claim holds when you read it through. Poultry fat and poultry gravy sit in both, with salmon oil at 0.5%.

Nearly every entry carries a percentage, and every added mineral a dose. Carbohydrate converts to just over half of dry matter in each.

Price per kilo

£2.45 (RRP)

Pack

2kg/kg)

A 15kg dog eats

200 to 340 g a day, 270 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.66

Budget end of the dry market, though you still pay a little over what the analysis shows.