Yora Superfood All Breed review

The Good band is where our scoring settles this, and the typical adult dry food settles there too. The reasons are mostly about clarity. The insect share is broken into its three parts in print, the joint entry carries a real figure, and the botanicals are declared down to 0.05%, all of which is why transparency reads Outstanding. On the nutrition side it is solid rather than spectacular, with protein at 25.0% of dry matter and carbohydrate at 46.7%, almost exactly the 46.2% typical of adult dry food. The label leaves moisture out, so the dry matter figures here take the 8% a kibble of this kind usually holds.

Ingredients, as declared: *Insect 40% (Insect Meal 26.5%, Freshly Prepared Insect 8%, Insect Oil 5.5%), Potato (19%), Naked Oats (18%), Sweet Potato (5.5%), Beet Pulp, Vegetable Stock, Brewer's Yeast, Minerals, Linseed, Seaweed Meal (0.5%), Chicory Root Extract (as a source of prebiotic FOS) (0.1%), Dried Carrot, Chondroitin (500mg/kg), Dried Spinach (0.05%), Dried Blueberry (0.05%), Dried Nettle, Dried Parsley, Dried Rosemary, Yucca Extract, Turmeric (0.005%). *Hermetia illucens larvae Source of Glucosamine.

The 40% is printed in its parts: 26.5% is insect meal, 8% is freshly prepared insect and 5.5% is insect oil. The meal is the load bearing part, since it is dried before it goes in, while the freshly prepared share loses most of its weight to water in the oven. The essential amino acids a dog needs are all present in black soldier fly larvae. This is a real protein source, not a novelty printed on the front of a bag.

Naked oats at 18% are the interesting choice. Being a hulless oat, most of the grain arrives as food with little husk to it, and oats are among the easiest cereals for a dog to digest. Potato at 19% and sweet potato at 5.5% work alongside them, and beet pulp brings a fermentable fibre that most guts get on with.

Brewer's yeast is there for its B vitamins, and few natural ingredients hold more. Linseed is the omega 3 entry, which keeps this recipe free of fish and therefore genuinely built on one animal, and seaweed meal at 0.5% adds iodine and trace minerals.

Chondroitin is printed at 500mg/kg. Glucosamine gets a mention too, but as something the larvae bring with them rather than as a stated dose, so the chondroitin figure is the one you can count.

The last stretch of the list, from dried carrot and spinach through blueberry, nettle, parsley, rosemary and turmeric, is finish more than substance. Yora is straight about the amounts: spinach and blueberry are each declared at 0.05%, turmeric at 0.005%. Yucca extract is the one entry with a practical job, and what it does is make the garden less pungent.

£7.50 a kilo, sold in 1.5kg, 6kg and 12kg bags.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition eats around 237 grams a day, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate), which comes to £1.78 a day. Yora's table asks 150 grams for a 10kg dog and 250 grams for a 20kg one, so scale to your own dog from there.