Symply

Symply Adult: Fresh Salmon review

Name: Symply Adult: Fresh Salmon
Brand: Symply

60.3/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Four recipes on one honest frame, all in our Good band, with the lamb a whisker behind the rest. The label shows its working: each meat percentage is broken into fresh, dried, fat and gravy. The plant side is recognisable food, and the starch is still doing a fair share of the work.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want to see how a meat percentage is built
Dogs that do best on one main meat, a single named animal per bag
Rotation feeders. Four species on one construction swap cleanly from bag to bag
Dogs that get on with oats, here in place of wheat or maize

Worth watching

Whole egg and salmon oil in all four, so none is single protein or fish free
Whole oats make it grain inclusive
No iron or manganese on an otherwise open panel

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

How this scores

How we score

60.3/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults. The maker's table gives a 15kg dog 150 grams a day on every recipe; weigh that out and let condition settle the rest.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Fresh Turkey 60.8
Fresh Chicken 60.4
Fresh Salmon 60.3
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.

What's in it

Salmon: fresh 26%, dried 17%, stock 1.6%, oil 0.9%45.5%The only recipe built on a fish.
Sweet potato15%
Whole oats13.5%
Potato11.2%
Pea starch, peas
Alfalfa
Sunflower oil1%Stands in for the salmon oil used elsewhere.
Whole eggThe one other animal on the label.
Cranberry, carrot, apple, broccoli, marigold, bilberry, spinach
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.

Named ingredients

45.5% Salmon (Fresh Salmon 26%, Dried Salmon 17%, Salmon Stock 1.6%, Salmon Oil 0.9%), Sweet Potato (15%), Whole Oats (13.5%), Potato (11.2%), Pea Starch, Peas, Alfalfa, Sunflower Oil (1%), Whole Egg, Cranberry, Carrot, Apple, Broccoli, Marigold Flower, Bilberry, Spinach, Prebiotic - Fructooligosaccharides (0.04%), Peppermint.

Against the range

Meat: Salmon; Chicken, lamb and turkey on the others.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 47.4%; Lowest of the four; the chicken is 50.6%.
Fat, declared: 13.5%; Highest; 12% to 13% on the rest.
Added oil: Sunflower; Salmon oil on the others.

For a dog that does not eat land meats, this is the one.

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.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

347.9 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

23%

Fat

13.5%

Fibre

Ash

7.9%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

25%

Fat

14.7%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

8.6%

Carbs

47.4%

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

45.4%

Added water

1.6%

Carbs

49%

Veg

2.3%

Oils

Other

0.7%

Pricing & size