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WorkingHPRs Puppy: Grain Free Large Breed Salmon with Sweet Potato review

Name: WorkingHPRs Puppy: Grain Free Large Breed Salmon with Sweet Potato
Brand: WorkingHPRs

70.1/100Excellent

DryPuppy

Flavour

From Excellent down to Good across four recipes, and the spread follows the labels. The grain-free pair name every meat and dose their joint ingredients; Working Puppy names animals only by family. Calcium is printed on every recipe, a point in the range's favour on a growth food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies growing into real work, on recipes built around an active life
Large breed pups. Two recipes are formulated for that frame, with calcium at 1.41% and 1.09% of dry matter
Early joint care on the grain-free pair, with glucosamine and MSM dosed at 170 and 355 mg/kg
Households leaving cereal out, with two grain-free recipes to choose between
Fish-fed puppies. The grain-free Large Breed keeps salmon as its only named meat

Worth watching

Working Puppy's calcium at 1.97% of dry matter is above the usual mark for large and giant growth, so talk to your vet before a big pup lives on it
Every recipe has more than one animal or an unnamed one, so none narrows down a suspected intolerance
The two Large Breed recipes are formulated for big frames; a toy or small pup suits one of the others

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

How this scores

How we score

70.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, with two recipes for large breeds. Pick the line on the bag's chart that matches your pup's expected adult weight, and check it again as the weeks pass.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Large

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Grain Free Chicken 73.5
Grain Free Large Breed Salmon 70.1
Large Breed Salmon 59.9
Premium Working Puppy 54.6

Four recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Where WorkingHPRs names its meat and prints its doses the recipe does well, and the one built from meals on cereal sits furthest back.

What's in it

Salmon: fresh salmon 38%, dried salmon 20%, salmon stock 2%60%The only named meat on the label.
Sweet potato19%
Potato, beet pulp, linseed
Minerals, vitamins
Carrot, peas0.2% peas
Omega 3 supplementSpecies not stated.
Vegetable stock
Glucosamine, MSM355 mg/kg eachThe biggest joint doses in the range.
Chondroitin sulphate250 mg/kg
Nucleotides, FOS, MOSFOS 96 mg/kg, MOS 24 mg/kg

Vitamins A, D3 and E with L-carnitine at 480mg, plus zinc, iron, manganese, copper and iodine.

The omega 3 supplement gives no species, so read that entry before treating this as a strict one-fish diet.

Named ingredients

Salmon 60% (Freshly Prepared Salmon 38%, Dried Salmon 20%, Salmon Stock 2%), Sweet Potato (19%), Potato, Beet Pulp, Linseed, Minerals, Vitamins, Carrot, Peas (0.2%), Omega 3 Supplement, Vegetable Stock, Glucosamine (355 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (355 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (250 mg/kg), Nucleotides, FOS (96 mg/kg), MOS (24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Meat: Salmon only, 60%; Three animals on the other grain-free recipe.
Glucosamine and MSM: 355 mg/kg each; 170 mg/kg on the other grain-free; no doses on Working Puppy.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.41%; Inside the growth range, as on two others.

The pick for a big pup kept on fish.

Four growth recipes for active and working pups, built two ways. The grain-free pair put named meat at 60% of the label, carry their starch on sweet potato and print doses for glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin. Large Breed Salmon and Potato runs on fresh salmon and salmon meal over potato, barley and oats, and Working Puppy opens on poultry meal over a cereal base.

Calcium is declared on all four, which many growth ranges skip. It sits inside the growth range on three and reads 1.97% of dry matter on Working Puppy.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

376 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

2.2%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

48.9%

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

58%

Added water

2.4%

Carbs

34.2%

Veg

0.6%

Other

4.7%

Pricing & size