Gain Dog Food Review & Ratings

Gain is an Irish brand, and the two foods we hold from it sit at the very bottom of our scoring. Across 2 rated foods it averages 0/100 (Avoid), ranking 290 of 290, with even the better of the two - Gain Greyhound 28 - reaching only 0/100.

A number that low almost always means the same thing: the label tells you next to nothing. Our score credits named meats, declared percentages and ingredient lists you can follow, and it has nothing to credit when a bag lists broad category terms and stops. That is a scoring verdict on disclosure, not a claim that dogs eating this come to harm.

These are greyhound and working-dog feeds, which is important context. That end of the market buys by the tonne for kennels of dogs, prices in pence per feed, and has historically been labelled to a completely different standard from the retail shelf. Nobody feeding a racing kennel is being careless by buying it. The point is that broad category terms let the recipe change between batches without a word changing on the bag, so you cannot know what you are feeding or compare it against anything.

Gain itself is a large, long-established Irish animal nutrition business, and its wider catalogue extends well beyond what we hold. If you are feeding these lines, the alternatives below are worth a look - there are working-dog foods at similar money that name what is in them.