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Bound Ragu: Beef with Carrots & Peas review

Name: Bound Ragu: Beef with Carrots & Peas
Brand: Bound

77.6/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Four meaty cans that all sit in our Excellent band, in a category that is already strong. Each leads with a named animal at 65% and accounts for the liquid as bone broth with a printed percentage. Protein reaches 50.0% to 55.0% of dry matter, which is a great deal of meat for something fed from a can.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that eat for the meat
A short list read top to bottom, with nothing behind a category term
Unfamiliar meats: wild boar and pork sit beside beef and chicken
Low-starch feeding, at 5.0% to 7.5% carbohydrate in dry matter
Rotation feeders, since only the meat and two vegetables change
Dogs that need the water, with moisture at 80% throughout

Worth watching

Bone broth with no species named, so a beef can may carry broth from another animal
Salmon oil in every recipe, so none of the four is fish free
One can size only, 400 g, which a small dog will not empty in one go

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

How this scores

How we score

77.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. A 15kg dog needs roughly two cans a day, so work out how many cans your dog's portion runs to before choosing a pack.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken 79.6
Boar 78.1
Beef 77.6
Pork 77.6

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All four get to the same place by the plainest route there is: a named meat at 65% leaves little room for anything else.

What's in it

Beef65%One named animal, and most of the can.
Bone broth25%
Carrots4%
Peas4%Between them the whole of the plant bulk.
Rosemary, sage, juniper, oregano, thyme, marjoram, basil, parsley0.1%Trace seasoning; rosemary also helps keep the fats fresh.
Salmon oilLong-chain omega 3 from a marine source, so no can here is fish free. No dose printed.

Vitamin D3, vitamin E at 150 mg, iron at 25 mg and zinc at 15 mg per kilo, with manganese, copper, iodine and selenium all printed with amounts.

The bone broth names no species, so it may come from a different animal to the named meat.

Named ingredients

Beef 65%, bone broth 25%, carrots 4%, peas 4%, rosemary, sage, juniper, oregano, thyme, marjoram, basil, parsley 0.1%, salmon oil

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 30.0%; 25% on the other three
Protein, dry matter: 50.0%; 55.0% on the other three
Fat, as fed: 6.0%; 5% on the rest

The richest can of the four, for a dog that carries the extra fat well.

Every can is one named animal at 65%, with bone broth at 25% (26% in the chicken) and two plants behind it, none above 6%. The same herb tail at trace level and a salmon oil finish close all four labels.

Moisture is declared at 80% throughout and energy at 105 kcal per 100g. Protein converts to 55.0% of dry matter on three cans and 50.0% on the beef, with estimated carbohydrate between 5.0% and 7.5%. Only the meat and the two plants change from can to can.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

105 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

50%

Fat

30%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

10%

Carbs

7.5%

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

65%

Added water

25%

Carbs

Veg

Other

Pricing & size