Dachshund Superfood

Dachshund Superfood Pate Private label: Salmon & Sweet Potato review

Name: Dachshund Superfood Pate Private label: Salmon & Sweet Potato
Brand: Dachshund Superfood

71.3/100Excellent

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

71.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

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

Salmon

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

Salmon40%
Ocean fish26%A large share of the tray with no species against it.
Sweet potato4%The only vegetable given a percentage.
Mixed herbs0.5%
Sunflower oil0.1%
Mannan oligosaccharides, seaweed
Glucosamine, chondroitin38.9mg/kg and 22.2mg/kg.
Yucca, cranberry and yeast extracts
Vegetables, vitamins and mineralsNot itemised.

26% of the tray is ocean fish with no species named.

Named ingredients

Salmon (40%) Ocean Fish (26%), Sweet potato (4%), Mixed Herbs (0.5%), Sunflower oil (0.1%), Prebiotic Mannan-Oligosaccharides (111mg/kg), Seaweed (55.6mg/kg), Glucosamine (38.9mg/kg), Chondroitin (22.2mg/kg), Yucca Extract (22.2mg/kg), Cranberry Extract (22.2mg/kg), Yeast Extract (11.1mg/kg), vegetables, vitamins & minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Salmon 40% plus ocean fish 26%; One named land animal on each of the others
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 22.2%; The highest of the adult three

The obvious choice for keeping land meats out of the bowl.

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

122.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

9.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

73%

Dry weight

Protein

35.2%

Fat

29.6%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

22.2%

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

40%

Added water

33.2%

Carbs

Veg

6.4%

Oils

0.1%

Other

16.2%

Pricing & size