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Tails.com Inner Vitality Dry: Puppy Chicken & Rice — Medium & Large review

Name: Tails.com Inner Vitality Dry: Puppy Chicken & Rice — Medium & Large
Brand: Tails.com

57.1/100Good

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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

57.1/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyGood

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

Puppy

Breed size

Medium, Large

Main protein

Chicken

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

Whole maize
Poultry meal16%
Freshly prepared chicken14%Chicken totals 29%.
Rice12%
Maize glutenOnly on the puppy label.
Poultry fat, poultry gravy, minerals, peas, brewers yeast
Whole linseed, salmon oil2.5%, 2%
Yeast cell walls, chicory root extract0.1% eachPrebiotics.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.04%, 0.03%
Yucca, dried spearmint, tyndallised cultures

Taurine at 500 mg, with zinc, iron and manganese as oxides and sulphates and selenium as sodium selenite.

Calcium is declared at 1.41% of dry matter, a level that suits a big puppy growing steadily.

Named ingredients

Whole Maize, Poultry Meal* 16%, Freshly Prepared Chicken* 14%, Rice 12%, Maize Gluten, Poultry Fat, Poultry Gravy*, Minerals, Peas, Brewers Yeast, Whole Linseed 2.5%, Salmon Oil2%, 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 0.04%, Chondroitin Sulphate 0.03%, Yucca Schidigera Extract 0.015%, Dried Spearmint, Tyndallised Lactobacillus helveticus 0.005%*, Tyndallised Lactocaseibacillus paracasei 0.005% *. * Amount of Chicken (29%), Sources of Omega 3 and 6, * Paraprobiotics

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 19.6%; The highest in the range
Energy: 380 kcal per 100g; Higher than every adult recipe
Poultry meal: 16%; 26% or 27.5% in the adult chicken recipes
Maize gluten: On the list; Absent from the others

Written for growth, and the calcium figure is the reason to trust it with a medium or large pup.

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

380.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

28%

Fat

18%

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

19.6%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

40.2%

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

32%

Added water

Carbs

50.7%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

4.6%

Other

6.6%

Pricing & size