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Tesco Kingswood Dry: Puppy Chicken with Rice & Sweet Potato review

Name: Tesco Kingswood Dry: Puppy Chicken with Rice & Sweet Potato
Brand: Tesco

45.1/100Average

DryPuppy

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

45.1/100Average

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

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

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

Chicken: fresh chicken, dried chicken proteins50% (28% fresh, 22% dried)The dried share does most of the work after baking.
Peas
Rice15%A conventional, easily digested base, so not grain free.
Dried beet pulp
Dried sweet potato4%
Animal fat, hydrolysed proteinsNeither names a species.
Minerals, inulin
Salmon oil, linseedOmega 3 for a growing brain and coat; puts fish in the bowl.
Yucca, thyme, rosemary, parsley

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

No calcium figure declared. For a large-breed puppy, ask your vet what they want to see first.

The published analysis (fat at 0.0%, the rest at 5.0%) is not usable.

Named ingredients

Chicken 50% (Fresh chicken 28%, Dried chicken proteins 22%), Peas, Rice (15%), Dried Beet Pulp, Dried Sweet Potato (4%), Animal Fat, Hydrolyzed Proteins, minerals, inulin (0, 7%), Salmon Oil (0, 3%), Linseed, Yucca Schidigera (0, 2%), Thyme, Rosemary, Parsley. Natural Ingredients

Against the range

Meat: Chicken, 50%; Salmon, 50%, on the adult.
Grain: Rice, 15%; None on the adult.
Fish: Salmon oil; The adult is salmon throughout.
Energy: 358 kcal per 100g; 370 on the adult.

A conventional poultry-and-rice start for a pup with no fish worries.

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

358 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Dry weight

Protein

5.4%

Fat

Fibre

5.4%

Ash

5.4%

Carbs

83.8%

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

41.8%

Oils

3.4%

Other

4.8%

Pricing & size