Collards

Collards Wet Dog Food Tray Adult: Duck & Rice review

Name: Collards Wet Dog Food Tray Adult: Duck & Rice
Brand: Collards

75/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Six trays made to one farmhouse pattern, and you can read each in a breath: a named animal at 60%, potatoes or brown rice, carrots and peas at 5% apiece. Not a single category term appears on any label. Four sit in our Excellent band, with the chicken a step above and the white fish a step below.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want every ingredient named and the big ones counted
Dogs on a rotation. Six animals share one recipe
Grain-avoiding dogs, on the Chicken & Potato or White Fish & Potato
Dogs that get on with a wholegrain, which the other four use
Topping a dry bowl with something fresh, as the label itself suggests

Worth watching

Salmon oil on every list, the meat trays included
White fish with no species named
Lamb bone at 10% in the Lamb & Rice lifts that tray's minerals
Dried kelp on all six adds iodine, relevant where a thyroid condition is being treated

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

How this scores

How we score

75/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Energy runs from 96 to 134 kcal per 100g across the six, so recheck the daily amount when you move between trays.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Chicken 86.0
Lamb 77.3
Salmon 76.1
Duck 75.0
Turkey 74.5
White Fish 65.3

Six recipes across Outstanding and Excellent and Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Most of the line holds level with the typical wet food, the chicken tray pulls ahead, and the plant share is what keeps the rest from following it.

What's in it

Duck60%A good change for a dog grown intolerant of the usual birds.
Brown rice20%A wholegrain with a little fibre.
Carrots, peas5% eachReal quantities: antioxidants and vitamin A from the carrots, fibre from the peas.
Potatoes5%
Minerals
Sunflower oilLow in saturated fat, with natural vitamin E.
Salmon oilOmega oils for skin and coat.
Dried kelp, basilKelp is a natural iodine source.

Vitamins A, D3 and E plus a B vitamin complex, which most wet labels leave out, and the usual trace elements, all dosed in print.

Salmon oil is on the list, so the tray is not fish free.

Named ingredients

Duck 60%, Brown Rice 20%, Carrots 5%, Peas 5%, Potatoes 5%, Minerals, Sunflower Oil, Salmon Oil, Dried Kelp, Dried Basil.

Against the range

Energy: An estimated 134 kcal per 100g; The most energy dense of the six; the White Fish is 96
Fat, dry matter: 30.0%; 20.0% on the White Fish up to 32.1% on the Salmon
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 21.7%; The highest; as low as 12.0% on the Lamb

The smallest portions in the range, and the bird to try when chicken and turkey have worn thin.

Every tray opens with one named animal at 60% and no second animal behind it: chicken, duck, lamb, salmon, turkey or white fish. Carrots and peas follow at 5% each, then sunflower oil, salmon oil, dried kelp and basil. No entry on any of the six hides behind a category term, and none declares calcium.

The carrier splits the range. Chicken and White Fish use potatoes at 25% and are grain free; the other four use brown rice at 20% with potatoes at 5%. Carbohydrate runs from 12.0% to 21.7% of dry matter, and fat from 20.0% to 32.1%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

134.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

70%

Dry weight

Protein

33.3%

Fat

30%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

13.3%

Carbs

21.7%

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

60%

Added water

Carbs

30%

Veg

5.2%

Oils

0.8%

Other

Pricing & size