Symply Adult: Fresh Lamb 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.

• Lamb: fresh 26%, dried 15%, fat 3.1%, gravy 1.6%45.7%One of the kindest red meats for a dog that finds poultry hard going.
• Sweet potato15%
• Whole oats12.9%
• Potato11.9%
• Pea starch, peas
• Alfalfa
• Salmon oil0.8%Fish on a lamb label.
• Whole egg
• Carrot, apple, broccoli, marigold, cranberry, bilberry, spinach
• Fructooligosaccharides, peppermint0.04% FOSPrebiotic fibre.

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

Calcium works out at 2.28% of dry matter, the highest ash in the range.

Protein, declared

21.0%

Lowest of the four; the turkey reaches 24.0%.

Fibre

4.5%

The most in the range.

Ash

9.0%

The most; the turkey is 6.5%.

The red-meat choice, a shade behind its siblings on protein.

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

£6.33 (RRP)

Pack

2kg, 6kg, 12kg

A 15kg dog eats

150 g a day

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£0.95

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