Webbox Natural Dry Complete Senior review

The Good band is where our scoring lands this one. Two things hold it there: a meat share that stops at just over a quarter of the recipe, and a cereal base that pushes carbohydrate a shade past the dry food norm. Set against that, the label is unusually willing to put a figure on things, from the joint trio to every last trace element. The typical adult dry food lands in the same band, so this is squarely mainstream. Fed to the dog it names, an older lamb eater with stiffening joints, it does what it promises.

Ingredients, as declared: Lamb Meal (27%)*, Wholegrain Maize (27%)*, Wholegrain Rice (17%)*, Wholegrain Barley (15%)*, Beet Pulp*, Poultry Fat*, Poultry Gravy, Salmon Oil (1%)*, Dried Peas (1%, Equivalent to 8% Peas)*, Salmon Oil (1%)*, Minerals, Dried Carrots (0.5%, Equivalent to 4.3% Carrots)*, Linseed*, Seaweed Meal*, Chicory Root Extract (a source of Prebiotic FOS)*, Yeast (a source of Prebiotic MOS)*, Glucosamine (150mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (150mg/kg), MSM (150mg/kg), Yucca Schidigera Extract*, Rosemary Extract*, Citrus Extract*, Marigold Extract*. *natural ingredient naturally preserved, *Supplemented levels added at time of manufacture

Lamb meal at 27% opens the list, and a meal at the top is the form you want. It is already dried, so very little of that percentage disappears in the oven. Lamb is an easily digested red meat, and a dog that has spent a lifetime on chicken lands on it comfortably. Protein converts to 26.6% of dry matter, comfortable without being generous, and fat to 10.9%, which sits at the gentler end of the dry shelf and reads as a deliberate choice for older dogs.

Wholegrain maize at 27%, wholegrain rice at 17% and wholegrain barley at 15% make up the cereal base. The wholegrain wording is doing real work here, because whole grains keep the fibre and micronutrients that milling strips away. Beet pulp sits behind them as the fermentable fibre, and total fibre lands at 3.3% of dry matter.

Ageing joints get a proper look in. Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and MSM each appear at 150 mg/kg, written into the ingredients list and not left to a photograph of a sprightly retriever. The evidence for glucosamine is genuinely mixed and no supplement rebuilds a worn joint, but a printed figure lets you compare one senior bag against another without guessing.

Some thought has gone into the smaller entries. Salmon oil brings marine omega 3 and linseed adds the plant form, seaweed meal supplies iodine along with a spread of minerals, and chicory root and yeast between them provide the prebiotic pair. Yucca is the usual stool odour entry, and rosemary, citrus and marigold extracts handle the preserving and the colour. Each trace element is printed with its dose: zinc at 100 mg, iron at 40 mg, manganese at 30 mg, copper at 7 mg and selenium at 0.25 mg per kilo.

The gap in an otherwise open label is the bird. Poultry fat and poultry gravy name a family and not a species. Behind them could sit chicken, turkey, duck or goose. The recipe cannot rule any one of them in or out. The peas and carrots also arrive dried, at 1% and 0.5%, with the label helpfully noting what each is equivalent to in fresh weight. Read them as seasoning, not a vegetable course.

£2.42 a kilo, sold in 2kg bags.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works through about 242 grams a day, assuming roughly 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That comes to about £0.59 a day. The label's own senior table asks 155 to 260 grams for a dog between 10kg and 20kg, and your dog's waistline settles which figure is right.