Yarrah

Yarrah Adult Vegetarian review

Name: Yarrah Adult Vegetarian
Brand: Yarrah

31.8/100Average

DryAdult

Yarrah's vegetarian kibble, built on soy beans with wheat and corn close behind and almost everything certified organic. It sits in our Average band, because plant protein and a large cereal share are what our reading weighs against. For an owner who has decided against meat, it does what it sets out to do.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A meat-free kitchen, with the dog fed on the same terms
Dogs that have reacted to chicken, beef or lamb, none of which appear here
Households that buy organic
Keeping fish out of the bowl: no marine ingredient is named

Worth watching

Wheat, wheat bran and corn, so not for a dog with a cereal problem
Soy beans open the list
The fat entry sits unclearly beside coconut, so confirm its source with Yarrah for an elimination trial

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

How this scores

How we score

31.8/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

An adult food covering every size. Yarrah's own table asks 475 to 625 grams a day for a 40kg dog depending on activity, so read the waistline before the table.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Yarrah Adult Vegetarian 31.8

All one Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The score measures a plant-only, cereal-heavy build against meat-based kibble, a brief this recipe was never written to.

What's in it

Soy beansThe lead protein, which matters if soy has caused trouble before.
Wheat, cornMost of the biscuit. Wheat is behind more dietary intolerance in dogs than any other cereal.
Wheat bran
Sunflower seed husksLift crude fibre to 7.3% of dry matter.
Lupine, rice proteinExtra plant proteins to balance the amino acids.
Coconut, fatThe punctuation leaves the fat's source hanging; no other entry has an animal origin.
Minerals
Brewer's yeastB vitamins and a little protein.
BaobabA fruit, for fibre.

Vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, D3 and E, taurine, iodine, copper and selenium; B12 and taurine are essential on a food with no animal ingredient.

The vitamin and trace element panel gives no units, so the levels cannot be checked as doses.

Named ingredients

Soy beans*, wheat*, corn*, wheat bran*, sunflower seed husks*, lupine*, rice protein*, coconut, fat*, minerals, brewer's yeast, baobab*. * = organic

Against the range

One meat-free kibble, with organic marks against nearly every entry. Soy beans lead the protein with lupine and rice protein behind, and wheat, corn and wheat bran form most of the biscuit. No animal ingredient appears on the list, so taurine and vitamin B12 are added to cover what plants cannot. The trace element panel prints bare numbers with no units.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

342 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

13.2%

Fibre

6.7%

Ash

7.6%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

14.3%

Fibre

7.3%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

44%

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.

Carbs

92.1%

Oils

0.6%

Other

7.3%

Pricing & size