Symply Adult: Fresh Chicken review

1. Fresh Turkey 60.8
2. Fresh Chicken 60.4
3. Fresh Salmon 60.3
4. Fresh Lamb 57.6

All four Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The gap between these four is smaller than their finishing order suggests, so let the animal decide it.

• Chicken: fresh 26%, dried 15.7%, fat 2.5%, gravy 1.6%45.8%The dried share is what really lands in the kibble.
• Sweet potato17%The peak for sweet potato in the range.
• Whole oats11.8%A gentle grain with soluble fibre.
• Potato11.2%
• Pea starch, peas
• AlfalfaGreen fibre and minerals.
• Salmon oil1.2%Marine omega 3, so not fish free.
• Whole eggA small entry with a complete amino acid profile.
• Cranberry, broccoli, marigold, apple, carrot, spinachSeasoning on a recipe that stands up without it.
• Fructooligosaccharides, peppermint0.04% FOS

Vitamins A, D3 and E, zinc twice (as oxide and as the more readily absorbed amino acid chelate), copper, iodine and selenium.

Carbohydrate, dry matter

50.6%

The most of the four; the salmon is lowest at 47.4%.

Sweet potato

17%

15% to 15.4% on the others.

Protein, declared

23.0%

21.0% on the lamb up to 24.0% on the turkey.

A dog that has never had trouble with poultry can start here.

Every recipe puts one named animal at the top, a little over 45% of the recipe, and prints the split behind it: fresh meat, dried meat, then fat and gravy or stock. The fresh share is mostly water the oven removes; the dried share is what lands in the kibble. Sweet potato, whole oats and potato carry the starch, with pea starch and peas behind.

Whole egg, alfalfa and a modest tail of cranberry, carrot, apple, broccoli, marigold, bilberry and spinach run through all four. Salmon oil brings the omega 3 to the land-meat recipes; the salmon swaps it for sunflower oil. Carbohydrate runs from 47.4% to 50.6% of dry matter.

Price per kilo

£5.67 (RRP)

Pack

2kg, 6kg, 12kg

A 15kg dog eats

150 g a day

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.85

Middle of the market for dry food, and the analysis gives back a little less than the price.