Cooper & Co

Cooper & Co Active review

Name: Cooper & Co Active
Brand: Cooper & Co

70.8/100Excellent

DryAdult

A duck kibble with a pheasant for company, and it lands in our Excellent band. Cooper & Co do the unpacking for you: dried duck at 19% anchors the protein, and even the duck stock gets its percentage. It is rich and energy dense, built for dogs that burn through their day.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Busy, sporting and working dogs, with fat at 15.0% and protein at 27.0%
Owners who like every animal entry broken out, down to the 1% duck stock
Dogs kept off grain
Hard-working joints. Chondroitin sulphate and glucosamine are both in the recipe
Dogs tired of chicken. Duck and pheasant sit well away from the usual shelf

Worth watching

Salmon oil throughout, so not fish free
Pheasant is game, for a dog that has had trouble with game meats
Calcium at 2.07% of dry matter, at the upper end: one for grown dogs, not growing ones
A smaller scoop for a dog whose main exercise is following you to the kitchen

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

How this scores

How we score

70.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label asks 190 to 255 grams for a dog between 10kg and 20kg; where that differs from your dog's needs, let the waistline decide.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Cooper & Co Active 70.8

All one Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Named, quantified animal entries and a restrained starch load carry it; the heavy mineral side is what pulls on nutritional balance.

What's in it

Freshly prepared duck22%Mostly water, much of it lost in the oven.
Dried duck19%What anchors the protein in the finished kibble. A generous dried share.
Freshly prepared pheasant7%A lean game bird very few dogs have met.
Duck fat, duck stock4%, 1%Both pinned to the species.
Sweet potato25%The main carbohydrate, with fibre and beta carotene.
Lentils, beet pulpFibre and a little plant protein.
Salmon oilThe marine omega 3, and why it is not fish free.
Brewer's yeast, minerals, dried spinachMinerals arrive as a single entry with no doses.
Chondroitin sulphate, glucosamineFor the joints.
Fructooligosaccharides, mannanoligosaccharides

Calcium at 2.07% of dry matter and ash at 9.5%, so this is for adult dogs only.

Named ingredients

53% Duck, Pheasant (Freshly Prepared Duck (22%), Dried Duck (19%), Freshly Prepared Pheasant (7%), Duck Fat (4%), Duck Stock (1%)), Sweet Potato (25%), Lentils, Beet Pulp, Salmon Oil, Brewer's Yeast, Minerals, Dried Spinach, Chondroitin Sulphate, Glucosamine, Fructooligosaccharides, Mannanoligosaccharides

Against the range

One grain-free recipe. The 53% animal headline is broken into its parts on the label, duck four ways and pheasant once, each to a species with its own percentage. Sweet potato at 25% and lentils carry the starch, and carbohydrate is estimated at 40.3% of dry matter against 46.2% typical. Ash is 9.5% and calcium works out at 2.07% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

367 kcal/100g

Protein

27%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

29.3%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

10.3%

Carbs

40.3%

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

53%

Carbs

25%

Oils

22%

Pricing & size