Cooper & Co

Cooper & Co Sensitive review

Name: Cooper & Co Sensitive
Brand: Cooper & Co

63/100Good

DryAdult

A duck kibble for dogs with a temperamental gut, in our Good band, with an ingredient list kept deliberately short. Half the recipe is declared duck, broken out across four forms. The digestive thinking sits in chicory, beet pulp and two prebiotics printed with their doses.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A stomach that has been the household talking point for months
Dogs kept off chicken and beef. Duck is the only land animal on the list
No cereal: sweet potato and tapioca do the starch work
Owners who like a label that prints its own numbers, down to milligrams per kilo
Hungry adults that need the fat kept generous

Worth watching

Salmon oil at 1%, so the bag is not fish free
Tapioca at 14.5%, there for structure and little else
Calcium at 2.17% of dry matter, full for a grown dog and not one to share with a puppy

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

How this scores

How we score

63/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. For a strict elimination trial, plan around the salmon oil before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Cooper & Co Sensitive 63.0

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Protein once the water leaves the fresh duck, and starch a shade above the norm, hold it level with the typical adult dry food. For a dog whose gut is the whole problem, that trade is often worth making.

What's in it

Freshly prepared duck23%Most of its water leaves in cooking.
Dried duck22%The share that still stands in the finished kibble.
Duck fat, duck gravy3%, 2%Completes the 50% duck.
Sweet potato28%The main starch, digested steadily, with fibre attached.
Tapioca14.5%Pressed from cassava root; essentially starch that binds a grain-free kibble.
Beet pulpSteady fibre.
Salmon oil1%The marine omega 3 source, and the one non-duck animal here.
Brewer's yeast, minerals
Chicory, dried blackberryChicory's inulin feeds the lower gut; the blackberry is a garnish.
Yucca extract, fructooligosaccharides, mannanoligosaccharides192 mg/kg down to 25 mg/kgYucca for stool odour, then two dosed prebiotics.

Vitamins A and D3 with iron, iodine, copper, manganese, zinc and selenium, every trace mineral given a printed dose.

Calcium works out at 2.17% of dry matter, so keep this one to adults.

Named ingredients

50% Duck (Freshly Prepared Duck (23%), Dried Duck (22%), Duck Fat (3%), Duck Gravy (2%)), Sweet Potato (28%), Tapioca (14.5%), Beet Pulp, Salmon Oil (1%), Brewer's Yeast, Minerals, Chicory, Dried Blackberry, Yucca Extract (192 mg/kg), Fructooligosaccharides (95 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (25 mg/kg)

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

364 kcal/100g

Protein

23.5%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

8.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

25.5%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

47.9%

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.

Carbs

45.9%

Veg

0.6%

Oils

51%

Other

2.5%

Pricing & size