I like your review Jenny. On point. It’s disappointing to see the new formula and packaging. I am reviewing other brands of dry food. I put my Sproodle Tilly on Pro Balance an after a case of colitis earlier this year. One of the key reasons was the Pro biotic impact and fruit,veg ingredients alongside proteins. I feed her Advance tins plus a weekly treat of chicken breast cooked with carrot and rice.
I bought the new Pro Balance 3kg without doing my research. Even Pet Barn staff at the counter had nothing positive to say about it. I’m afraid that Pro Balance is off my list and will try a new dry food for her.

Hi Casey,

I try and keep the reviews fairly short, but the calculations I use are more in depth and we can deduce a number of factors. Carbs are around 40% dry matter, which would come from sorghum, rice, and peas. That gives an indication of the bias towards those ingredients over meat – hence the “con”. When it comes to just the protein the bias is towards meat rather than peas – stated as 68%, the remaining protein will come from the sorghum, rice, and peas. Not accounting for moisture, rice and sorghum are largely carbohydrate, and peas around 1g of protein to 3g carbohydrate generically.

If you were to assume meat was 70% and the other three ingredients were 10%, that would mean 30% of the formula would result in 40% carbohydrates plus the remaining 32% protein from non-meat ingredients (100% – 68%). That isn’t possible.

Or to look at it another way – 68% protein from meat in a formula which is 25% protein would mean 17% of the product is protein from meat. 17% of the entire formula sounds much worse than stating “68% protein from meat” on the packet. Poultry meal is protein dense. If we assumed poultry meal was 100% protein this would suggest 17% of the formula is poultry meal, but realistically we would need to account for percentages of fat (as part of the 14% fat), ash, at perhaps a small percentage of moisture.

I’m not sure if that all makes sense?