Collards

Collards Wet Dog Food Tray Older/Overweight: Salmon, Rice and Veg review

Name: Collards Wet Dog Food Tray Older/Overweight: Salmon, Rice and Veg
Brand: Collards

68.1/100Good

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

The brand's adult tray rebalanced for a dog past its sprinting years. The animal steps back to 50% and brown rice comes forward to take the place of the fat, which drops to 16.0% of dry matter. All four trays land in our Good band, a band below the typical wet food, and that trade is the point of the recipe.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs carrying a little extra weight
Older dogs, one of the two life stages the tray is written for
Keeping protein up while the fat comes out
Dogs already settled on Collards adult trays
Careful portion counters: swap the animal and nothing else changes

Worth watching

Estimated carbohydrate at 30.0% of dry matter, a lot of starch for a wet food
Salmon oil in all four trays
Not a veterinary weight loss diet, so a dog under treatment keeps to what the vet prescribed

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

How this scores

How we score

68.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors. If your dog is being treated for obesity, check with the vet before swapping a prescribed diet for this one.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Turkey 68.6
Salmon 68.1
Duck 64.2
Lamb 64.2

All four Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

With one analysis across the four, the small gap between salmon and turkey and the other two comes from the animal at the head of the list.

What's in it

Salmon50%Named to the species, not just fish.
Brown rice25%The change that does the work: wholegrain starch filling the tray where the fat came out.
Carrots, peas, potatoes5% eachEach named and counted.
Minerals
Sunflower oil, salmon oilThe salmon oil brings the omega oils ageing joints and coats appreciate.
Dried kelp
ChicoryInulin for the gut's good bacteria, the one entry the brand's adult tray lacks.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with a dosed B vitamin complex, plus zinc, manganese, selenium and iodine, a more generous declaration than most wet labels give.

Named ingredients

Salmon 50%, Brown Rice 25%, Carrots 5%, Peas 5%, Potatoes 5%, Minerals, Sunflower Oil, Salmon Oil, Dried Kelp, Chicory.

Against the range

Animal: Salmon, 50%; Duck, lamb or turkey at 50% in the others.
Fish: Salmon and salmon oil; Salmon oil only in the other three.

The obvious pick for an older dog with stiff joints, or one that has never got on with poultry or red meat.

Four recipes share one analysis. The named animal takes 50% of each tray, brown rice 25%, and carrots, peas and potatoes 5% apiece. Fat is cut to 4.0% as fed while protein holds at 40.0% of dry matter. Sunflower oil and salmon oil supply the fats in every tray, and chicory is the one entry the brand's adult tray does not carry. Calcium is not declared.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

95.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

12%

Carbs

30%

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

50%

Added water

Carbs

35%

Veg

5.7%

Oils

1.6%

Other

1.7%

Pricing & size