I've been feeding my dogs a salmon and potato dry food for nearly 3 years now.  I found it when the company were just starting out and thought it was an excellent price.  Inevitably prices have risen, but I'm happy with it so we continue to use it.  I've just been browsing though, and a food that I always thought was out of my price range, but possibly superior, is now identically priced (if you factor in delivery).  And while my dogs really are doing well on their current food, I'm just wondering if anyone can see any obvious advantage, in terms of ingredients, of one over the other.  There's more 'stuff' in the current food, but I don't know if any of those things are beneficial/potentially detrimental. 

Current food:
Salmon (min 45% - Deboned Salmon, Salmon Meal, Potato, Sunflower Oil, Beet Pulp, Dried Egg, Brewers Yeast, Salmon Digest, Salmon Oil, Linseeds, Minerals, Vitamins, Yucca Extract, Cranberries, Nucleotides, Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS), Glucosamine, MSM, Chondroitin.

Naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols.

Analysis:

Protein:   25%        Oil:     14%       Fibre:     3%      Ash:    8%

Competitor:
Salmon, Potato, Fish Meal, Salmon Oil, Beet Fibre, Brewers Yeast , Minerals

Analysis:

Crude Protein 26%; Fat Content  12%; Crude Ash 9%; Crude Fibres 2.5%

Thanks :-)

I would want to know the quantities of salmon meal in the competing product.  By ingredient splitting, or having more ingredients it can look as if there is a lot of the meat/fish in it when in fact there isn't as it is a small percentage of a lot of other ingredients.

Also beware fresh meat and fish as this will be much less once it is dry.

So 26% fish/meat meal is more fish than 26% fresh fish/meat.

I always look for at least 26% meat or fish meal (dry stuff).

I would want to know what preservative is used in the competitor food?