Trophy Pet Foods Trophy Lifestyle Lamb & Rice review

The Good band is where this recipe comes to rest, level with the middle of the adult dry shelf. Holding it there is the cereal behind the lamb, with wheat second and maize fourth, and carbohydrate estimated at 51.1% of dry matter. Lifting it is the lamb itself at a combined 30% declared, protein converting to 25.0% of dry matter and a fat level with real energy in it. Twelve entries and nothing vague among them also count in its favour, because there is nowhere for an unnamed derivative to hide on a list this short.

Ingredients, as declared: Lamb (including min. 26% lamb meal and min. 4% freshly prepared lamb), Wheat, Rice (min. 12%), Maize, Chicken Fat, Wheatfeed, Yeast (source of mannan oligosaccharides), Unmolassed Beet Pulp, Yucca Schidigera, Rosemary, Blackcurrant, Pomegranate.

Lamb leads, and the split is printed for you: min. 26% as lamb meal and min. 4% freshly prepared. The meal is the load bearing part, already dried, so its declared share survives the oven. Fresh meat goes in mostly as water, and most of that is gone by the time the kibble leaves the oven. Between them, protein converts to 25.0% of dry matter and fat to 13.0%, a respectable pair for a kibble at this level.

Lamb is a red meat, easy for most dogs to digest and useful precisely because fewer dogs have met it before. It does bring more minerals along than poultry does, especially in meal form where bone content runs higher. For a dog whose history includes urinary trouble, that is worth a thought.

Wheat second and maize fourth are the reason carbohydrate finishes at 51.1% of dry matter against the 46.2% typical for adult dry food. Rice at min. 12% is the gentler cereal of the three, and wheatfeed further down is the milling fraction rather than the flour. Unmolassed beet pulp keeps the fibre side ticking over at 3.0%.

Chicken fat is worth calling out plainly. It is a good and stable fat, and the label names it outright where an anonymous animal fat would tell you nothing. The recipe is therefore lamb-led and not lamb-only. That is the distinction to hold on to if you are ruling poultry in or out.

Yeast goes in to supply mannan oligosaccharides, and those are a prebiotic that the large intestine's good bacteria feed on. Rosemary at the tail end is mostly there to keep the fats fresh, with blackcurrant and pomegranate as seasoning. The mineral panel is printed in full, including a chelated zinc entry at 29mg alongside 102mg as the sulphate.

£3.49 a kilo, sold in 3kg and 14kg bags.

For a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition the maths lands at roughly 235 grams a day and £0.82, taking about 840 kcal a day as the target (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). Trophy's own guide asks 212 grams for that dog, so begin around there and adjust to the waistline.