Smartbones Beef Bones Medium Dog

A beef bone with more chicken than beef in it is worth reading the ingredient list on before the name on the front.

This chew is a combination of vegetables with beef and an inner layer of chicken breast — 24% chicken breast against 5.1% beef, alongside wheat flour, maize starch, glycerol, pea powder (4.2%), chicken liver (1.5%), sweet potato powder (1.3%) and carrot powder (0.17%). It analyses at 16.5% protein, 1% crude fibre and 2% crude ash, at 226.8 kcal per chew, and the guidance is to split one chew over two days for large and X-large dogs.

• 24% chicken breast and 5.1% beef, with vegetables through the recipe
• Analytical protein 16.5%, crude fibre 1%, crude ash 2%
• 226.8 kcal per chew
• Large and X-large dogs: feed one chew over 2 days
• Rawhide-free
• Vitamin E at 150 IU/kg and manganese at 4mg/kg added

On the name. Beef Bones names the flavour on the front, but chicken breast at 24% outweighs the beef content at 5.1% — both are genuinely in the recipe, but chicken is the larger of the two, not beef.

Who it's for: owners of medium-sized dogs who want a rawhide-free chew and are feeding by the calorie guidance rather than by eye — particularly useful for a large or X-large dog, where one chew is meant to last two days.