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Bound Pate: Fish with Courgette & Sweet Potatoes review

Name: Bound Pate: Fish with Courgette & Sweet Potatoes
Brand: Bound

74/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

A five-can pate range where every ingredient carries a real name, with the beef, boar and duck in our Outstanding band and the chicken and fish a step behind in Excellent. The animal total is 55% in every recipe. Only the meat behind it changes, which makes this an easy range to rotate through.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Label readers. There is not a category term on any of the five
Rotation feeding on one construction with a different animal each time
A meat your dog has not met, with wild boar and duck in the range
Dogs that prefer a smooth pate to chunks
Cereal-free feeding: pumpkin, potato and sweet potato, with quinoa in the duck
Dogs shy of the water bowl, at 80% moisture

Worth watching

Salmon oil on every list, even the cans named for a single meat
Chicken in four of the five, which leaves only the fish can for a chicken-avoiding dog
One 400 g size, so a small dog's leftovers need covering in the fridge
The white fish is not named by species

Written by our editorial team. Independent guidance, not veterinary advice.

How this scores

How we score

74/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog takes a shade over two cans a day, so work out your weekly can count before you order a pack.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

White Fish

The score, in context

Beef 81.7
Boar 80.7
Duck 80.5
Chicken 79.8
Fish 74.0

Five recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

On quality the five are close to interchangeable, so pick the one whose protein suits your dog.

What's in it

White fish25%No species named.
Salmon25%
Fish skin5%A nutrient-dense part many pates leave out.
Courgette, sweet potato, carrots6% down to 2%
Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, red currants2%
Rosemary, sage, juniper, oregano, thyme, marjoram, basil, parsley0.1%
Algae, salmon oil

The range's dosed panel: vitamins D3 and E, iron, zinc, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium.

The white fish is not named by species, a gap for a strict avoidance list.

Named ingredients

White fish 25%, salmon 25%, fish skin 5%, zucchini 6%, sweet potato 3%, carrots 2%, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, red currants 2%, rosemary, sage, juniper, oregano, thyme, marjoram, basil, parsley 0.1%, algae, salmon oil

Against the range

Land animals: None; Chicken in the other four.
Fat, dry matter: 25.0%; 30% on the rest.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 12.5%; 9.0% to 10% on the others.

The leanest can, and the only choice here for a dog that has to stay off chicken.

Five smooth pates in 400 g cans, each at 55% named animal. Three pair a headline meat at 30% with chicken at 25%; one is chicken with liver and hearts, and one is white fish and salmon with fish skin. A short, printed run of vegetables follows, then a herb garden at trace level.

Algae and salmon oil close every list, so no can is fish free. Protein converts to 45.0% of dry matter throughout, and estimated carbohydrate runs from 9.0% to 12.5%. The added panel is the same on all five.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

105 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

45%

Fat

25%

Fibre

Ash

12.5%

Carbs

12.5%

As-fed composition

Estimated breakdown of the finished product by ingredient category, from the declared ingredient list and ingoing weights. These are estimates, not measurements.

Meat

55%

Added water

19.1%

Carbs

Veg

Other

14.8%

Pricing & size