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Tails.com Inner Vitality Dry: Adult Salmon & Sweet Potato — Sensitive Grain-Free review

Name: Tails.com Inner Vitality Dry: Adult Salmon & Sweet Potato — Sensitive Grain-Free
Brand: Tails.com

65.7/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Five dry recipes in our Good band, with the grain-free salmon pair at the head. The chicken and rice bags open on whole maize, which is the single biggest thing separating them from the salmon ones. Every bag carries the same gut and joint extras.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A temperamental gut. Every recipe carries prebiotics alongside a pair of tyndallised cultures
A fish eater, with salmon meal behind a sweet potato base
Homes with a little dog and a big one, as the chicken recipe comes in two sizes
Older dogs. The mature salmon lifts glucosamine to 0.06% and chondroitin to 0.045%
Medium and large puppies, with calcium declared at 1.41% of dry matter

Worth watching

Whole maize first on the chicken recipes, so a dog that does better with meat leading will get more from the salmon pair
Poultry fat and gravy in the salmon recipes, and salmon oil in the chicken ones: nothing here is single-animal or fish free
No moisture on any label, so the dry matter figures assume 8%

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

How this scores

How we score

65.7/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Recipes cover toy to large adults, seniors, and medium and large puppies. Match the bag to your dog's size first, since the two chicken adults are sized differently.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Adult Salmon 65.7
Mature Salmon 64.1
Adult Chicken 61.4
Adult Chicken 60.0
Puppy Chicken 57.1

All five Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Where the maize lands on the list decides the order: the salmon pair lead and the chicken recipes sit lower in the same band.

What's in it

Sweet potato35.5%Leads, with no cereal anywhere.
Salmon meal25.5%
Hydrolysed salmon10%Protein cut so small most immune systems no longer recognise it. A palatant too.
Potato
Poultry fat, poultry gravySo the fish leads without being the only animal.
Peas, minerals
Whole linseed, salmon oil2.5%, 2%
Yeast cell walls, chicory root extract0.1% eachPrebiotics.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.03%, 0.015%
Yucca, dried spearmint, tyndallised cultures

Taurine at 500 mg, with zinc at 75 mg as an oxide and the other minerals as oxides and sulphates.

Poultry fat and poultry gravy are on this label, so it is not a single-protein recipe.

Named ingredients

Sweet Potato 35.5%, Salmon Meal 25.5%, Hydrolysed Salmon 10%, Potato, Poultry Fat, Poultry Gravy, Peas, Whole Linseed* 2.5%, Minerals, Salmon Oil* 2%, Yeast Cell Walls 0.1% (as a source of MOS and Beta glucans 0.03%), Chicory Root Extract 0.1% (as a source of prebiotic Inulin and FOS), Glucosamine Hydrochloride 0.03%, Chondroitin Sulphate 0.015%, Yucca Schidigera Extract 0.015%, Dried Spearmint, Tyndallised Lactobacillus helveticus 0.005%, Tyndallised Lactocaseibacillus paracasei 0.005%. * Sources of Omega 3 and 6, Paraprobiotics

Against the range

Base: Sweet potato, 35.5%; Whole maize on the chicken recipes
Salmon meal: 25.5%; 24% in the mature
Ash, dry matter: 10.3%; The highest here, from fish meal built on whole fish and bone

The strongest build in the range and the one to choose when you have a free hand.

The range splits in two. The three chicken and rice recipes open on whole maize with poultry meal and freshly prepared chicken behind it. The two salmon recipes lead on sweet potato, with salmon meal and hydrolysed salmon at 10%, and carry no cereal, though poultry fat and poultry gravy still follow.

Every bag shares the same support cast: yeast cell walls and chicory root extract as prebiotics, two tyndallised cultures, whole linseed at 2.5%, salmon oil at 2% and a printed glucosamine and chondroitin pair. Minerals come as oxides and sulphates. No label declares moisture.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

350 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

14%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

9.5%

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

10.3%

Carbs

43.5%

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

35.5%

Added water

4.6%

Carbs

49.5%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

5.6%

Other

4.7%