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Tesco Kingswood Dry: Adult Salmon with Spinach & Sea Buckthorn review

Name: Tesco Kingswood Dry: Adult Salmon with Spinach & Sea Buckthorn
Brand: Tesco

48.7/100Average

DryAdult

Flavour

Tesco's more ambitious dog food, and the bag front backs it up. Half of each recipe is one named animal, with the fresh and dried shares printed separately, a detail most labels skip. Both recipes sit in our Average band, pulled back by unnamed entries further down.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Fish-loving adults: 50% salmon, as 30% fresh and 20% dried
Puppies growing on poultry, with 50% chicken split 28% fresh and 22% dried
Owners who want both halves of the meat figure set out
Adults kept off grain. The salmon recipe uses peas, sweet potato and potato starch
Supermarket shoppers who still want a named meat leading the list

Worth watching

Animal fat and hydrolysed proteins unnamed in both, so neither suits a food trial
Salmon oil in the puppy recipe, and rice at 15%
No calcium figure on either label
The published analysis is unusable, so there is no dependable dry matter reading

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

How this scores

How we score

48.7/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

The salmon is for adults and the chicken for puppies, each of any size. For a large-breed puppy, ask your vet what calcium they want to see, as the bag does not say.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Adult Salmon 48.7
Puppy Chicken 45.1

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The named, split meat share lifts both bags; unnamed entries and an unusable analysis hold them back.

What's in it

Salmon: fresh salmon, dried salmon protein50% (30% fresh, 20% dried)The dried 20% is what really reaches the kibble, and it is a good share.
Peas, dried sweet potato, potato starchA grain-free base.
Dried beet pulpFibre for a settled gut.
Animal fatNo species named.
Potato flakes
Hydrolysed proteinsUnnamed, usually there as a palatant.
Minerals, inulinInulin feeds the gut bacteria.
Dried spinach, yucca, dried sea buckthornSpinach and sea buckthorn give the name; yucca is there for stool odour.
Thyme, rosemary, parsley

Vitamins A, D3, E and C, copper, iron and zinc as sulphates, iodine, manganese, selenium as sodium selenite, and taurine.

The published analysis is a flat row of 5.0% figures, so no dry matter reading can be trusted.

Named ingredients

Salmon 50% (Fresh salmon 30%, Dried salmon protein 20%). Peas, dried sweet potato, potato starch, dried beet pulp, animal fat, potato, flakes, hydrolyzed proteins, minerals, inulin (0, 7%), dried spinach (0, 45%), Yucca Schidigera (0, 2%), dried sea buckthorn (0, 1%)*, thyme*, rosemary*, parsley*, Natural Ingredients

Against the range

Meat: Salmon, 50%; Chicken, 50%, on the puppy.
Grain: None; Rice at 15% on the puppy.
Vitamin C: 150 mg per kilo; 100 mg on the puppy.
Energy: 370 kcal per 100g; 358 on the puppy.

The grain-free bag of the two, and the one for a fish-loving adult.

Each recipe declares 50% of one named animal and splits it into fresh and dried shares, so you can see how much survives the oven. Behind the meat, peas lead both bases. Both carry dried beet pulp, inulin, yucca and taurine at 1000 mg per kilo.

Both also carry animal fat and hydrolysed proteins with no species named. The published analysis on both bags is a flat row of 5.0% figures, which cannot describe a food built on 50% meat, so the ingredient list is the better guide. What varies is the animal and the base: salmon on a grain-free base for adults, chicken with rice for puppies.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

370 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

5.4%

Fat

5.4%

Fibre

5.4%

Ash

5.4%

Carbs

78.4%

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

50%

Carbs

44.1%

Veg

0.2%

Oils

2.7%

Other

Pricing & size