Dachshund Superfood

Dachshund Superfood Light Adult Private label review

Name: Dachshund Superfood Light Adult Private label
Brand: Dachshund Superfood

60.7/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Two small-breed light recipes under one name, the turkey in our Excellent band and the trout and salmon a step below in Good. They are less alike than the shared name suggests. The joint set and the prebiotics are printed as doses on both labels, not left to the marketing.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small dogs carrying a little extra weight
Joint support printed as a dose: glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin sulphate
Grain-free feeding, with sweet potato doing the binding
Little dogs; both bags are built and sized for them
Alternating a fish bowl and a meat bowl

Worth watching

The two are built very differently, so read the variety notes before switching
Dried pork behind the turkey in one recipe
Vitamins and trace minerals folded into one minerals entry, no doses printed

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

How this scores

How we score

60.7/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs, and the turkey for seniors too. The labels guide by bodyweight from 25 grams a day for the smallest dogs; let the waistline settle the final portion.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Trout

The score, in context

Turkey 76.0
Dachshund Superfood Light Adult Private label 60.7

Two recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The two finish a band apart by different routes: the turkey on meat, the trout and salmon on the restraint a light diet is meant to show.

What's in it

Freshly prepared trout30%Leads a 50% fish total.
Dried salmon, freshly prepared salmon11%, 4%
Salmon oil, salmon stock3%, 2%
Sweet potato24%
Potato, peas6% peas
Beet pulpFibre.
Pea protein, linseed, potato protein
Minerals, asparagus0.3% asparagusVitamins and trace minerals sit inside this one entry.
Glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin sulphate170, 170 and 125 mg/kg.
FOS, MOS96 and 24 mg/kg.

Named ingredients

Trout & Salmon 50% (including Freshly Prepared Trout 30%, Dried Salmon 11%, Freshly Prepared Salmon 4%, Salmon Oil 3%, Salmon Stock 2%), Sweet Potato (24%), Potato, Peas (6%), Beet Pulp, Pea Protein, Linseed, Potato Protein, Minerals, Asparagus (0.3%), Glucosamine (170 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (170 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (125 mg/kg), Fructooligosaccharides (FOS, 96 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS, 24 mg/kg)

Against the range

Animals: Fish only; Turkey and pork in the other.
Fat, as fed: 8%; 11% on the turkey.
Protein, as fed: 25%; 37.5% on the turkey.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 51.6% (estimate); 32.6% on the turkey.

Pick it when you want every land meat left out.

Both recipes leave cereal out, with sweet potato opening the plant side and beet pulp following for fibre. Both split their meat figure into fresh and dried parts, and the dried entries do more of the work in the finished kibble than their place on the list suggests.

Each label doses a joint set of glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin sulphate, and the prebiotic pair FOS and MOS. Neither breaks out its vitamins or trace minerals. Beyond that the two are built very differently: fish at 50% against turkey and pork at 65%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

340 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

8.7%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

51.6%

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

48%

Added water

Carbs

47.4%

Other

2.6%

Pricing & size