Dachshund Superfood

Dachshund Superfood Pate Private label: Lamb & Sweet Potato Hotpot review

Name: Dachshund Superfood Pate Private label: Lamb & Sweet Potato Hotpot
Brand: Dachshund Superfood

70/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Pate trays for small dogs that lead hard with meat, all four in our Excellent band. Three declare their named animal at 60% or more, and the chicken casserole prints chicken at 65%. A puppy recipe with brown rice sits beside the three adult trays.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small adult dogs, the size named on every tray
Dogs kept to one animal: the chicken casserole has nothing else from the animal kingdom
Owners who read for the meat percentage first
A puppy in the house, with a chicken and brown rice recipe made for growth
Stiffening joints. Glucosamine and chondroitin are on all four labels

Worth watching

Fish oil in the lamb hotpot and the puppy bake, so neither suits a strict single-animal trial
Brown rice at 6% in the puppy recipe, if the household stays off grain
A rich hotpot, with fat at 40.0% of dry matter

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

How this scores

How we score

70/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

The adult trays are listed for small dogs, and the puppy bake for small puppies. For the puppy recipe, work from the feeding table printed on the tray, since it is fed to a growth guide.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Chicken 77.4
Puppy Chicken Bake 72.2
Salmon 71.3
Lamb 70.0

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The printed meat percentages do most of the lifting here, and the salmon falls behind the chicken on its unnamed ocean fish and higher carbohydrate.

What's in it

Lamb60%The red meat in the range.
Dried sweet potato, dried peas1.3% eachPrinted with fresh equivalents: 4% each.
Dried carrots1.3%Declared as the equivalent of 10% carrots, a useful piece of honesty.
Dried basil, parsley, sage, mint, rosemary
Fish oil, vegetable oilFish oil for skin and coat. The vegetable oil is unnamed.
FOS, yeast0.1% eachPrebiotics.
Minerals, nucleotide yeast extract, seaweed meal
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.004%, 0.002%The same small joint support as the other trays.
Cranberry, yucca0.002% each

Fish oil on the label, so this is not a single-animal recipe.

Named ingredients

Lamb (60%), Dried Sweet Potato (1.3% equivalent to 4% Sweet Potato), Dried Peas (1.3% equivalent to 4% Peas), Dried Carrots (1.3% equivalent to 10% Carrots), Dried Basil, Dried Parsley, Dried Sage, Dried Mint, Dried Rosemary, Fish Oil, Vegetable Oil, Fructo-oligosaccharies (Prebiotic FOS; 0.1%), Yeast (as a source of Prebiotic MOS; 0.1%), Minerals, High Nucleotide Yeast Extract (0.015%), Seaweed Meal, Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.002%), Cranberry (0.002%), Yucca Schidigera (0.002%)

Against the range

Meat: Lamb 60%; Chicken or salmon on the other three
Fat, dry matter: 40.0%; The fattiest tray; the puppy bake is 26.0%
Oils: Fish oil and an unnamed vegetable oil; Sunflower oil on the casserole and salmon

A sensible change for a dog that has had enough of poultry.

Every tray opens on a named animal with a percentage beside it: 60% or more on three of the four, and salmon plus ocean fish on the fourth. The plant side stays in single figures. Glucosamine, chondroitin, yucca, cranberry and a prebiotic run through all four labels at small, supportive levels.

What varies is the oil and the grain. Fish oil turns up on the lamb hotpot and the puppy bake, sunflower oil on the other two, and only the puppy recipe carries a cereal. Protein converts to between 32.0% and 48.0% of dry matter across the range.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

125.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

32%

Fat

40%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

14%

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

24%

Carbs

12.3%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

0.1%

Other

Pricing & size