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Tails.com Example Recipes Adult: Tailored Blend For Bichon Frise Cross review

Name: Tails.com Example Recipes Adult: Tailored Blend For Bichon Frise Cross
Brand: Tails.com

46.7/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Tails.com mixes every blend for the dog it is going to, so these five breed examples are a window onto what the mixer draws from. Three sit in our Average band, with the Lurcher and Rottweiler a step up in Good. Chicken is the named meat in all of them.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the portioning done for them. Each blend arrives measured to its dog
Joints that could use some help, with glucosamine and chondroitin on all five lists
Several dogs with different needs, each with a blend of its own
A dog that does well on chicken

Worth watching

Maize first in three of the five, plus two refined maize fractions
Meat and bone meal on three, naming no animal, so those blends cannot rule a meat in or out
No calcium figure on any example

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

How this scores

How we score

46.7/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

These are illustrations for adult dogs of every size; the food that arrives is mixed to your own dog's specification, with its own daily amount printed on it.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Tailored Blend For Rottweiler 63.7
Tailored Blend For Lurcher 52.2
Tailored Blend For Bichon Frise Cross 46.7
Tailored Blend For Cavapoo 46.0
Tailored Blend For Staffordshire Bull Terrier 41.0

Five recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

A narrow spread with shared reasons: named chicken and sensible extras, against heavy maize, unnamed meat and bone meal on three and no calcium figure anywhere.

What's in it

MaizeFirst on the list.
Chicken: meal, offal, fat, gravy26.8%Meal 12% concentrates protein; offal at 9.5% is nutrient-dense organ meat.
Poultry: meal, fat, gravy4.3%A family term, so any domestic fowl.
Maize protein feed, maize proteinRefined fractions that lift protein without adding meat.
Meat and bone meal3.2%Names no animal.
Beef meal3.2%
Brown rice, beet pulp, minerals and vitamins
Linseed, sweet potatoes, potatoes, dried yeast, dried seaweedPlant omega 3 from the linseed; seaweed for iodine.
Salt, chicory extract, glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulphate, yucca extract, marigoldJoint entries with no declared dose. Yucca is there for stool odour.

Trace elements dosed in print, zinc at 56.73 mg, with L-carnitine and vitamins A, D3, E and C.

Meat and bone meal names no animal, so this blend cannot anchor an elimination diet.

Named ingredients

Maize, Chicken 26.8% (Chicken Meal 12%, Chicken Offal 9.5%, Chicken Fat 3.5%, Chicken Gravy 1.8%), Poultry 4.3% (Poultry Meal 3%, Poultry Fat 0.9%, Poultry Gravy 0.4%), Maize Protein Feed, Maize Protein, Meat and Bone Meal 3.2%, Beef Meal 3.2%, Brown Rice, Beet Pulp, Minerals and Vitamins, Linseed, Sweet Potatoes, Dried Yeast, Dried Seaweed, Potatoes, Salt, Chicory Extract, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulphate, Yucca Extract, Marigold.

Against the range

First ingredient: Maize; Chicken leads in the Lurcher and Rottweiler
Meat and bone meal: 3.2%; Same in the Cavapoo, 1.5% in the Staffordshire, none in the other two
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 47.4%; Second lowest; 45.5% to 54.4% across the five

A middle-of-the-range example, close to the Cavapoo in almost every line.

Chicken is the named meat in all five, between 26.2% and 34.2%, broken into meal, offal, fat and gravy, with a smaller poultry entry behind it. Maize runs through every list as whole maize, maize protein feed and maize protein. Brown rice, potatoes and beet pulp fill in, and joint entries appear on all five with no declared dose.

What varies: three blends add meat and bone meal beside beef meal, two put chicken ahead of maize, and two add egg and salmon oil. No blend declares calcium.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

370.1 kcal/100g

Protein

24.9%

Fat

12.9%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

7.8%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.1%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

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

35.3%

Added water

2.2%

Carbs

59.4%

Veg

0.4%

Other

2.8%

Pricing & size