Dachshund Superfood Veterinary Range: Digestive Care review

1. Dental Care 57.4
2. Digestive Care 57.4
3. Skin 53.2
4. Weight Control 48.4

Four recipes across Good and Average. Typical dry food: Good.

Hydrolysed protein reads modestly on paper, so the job on the front of the bag matters more than the small gap between scores.

• Freshly prepared hydrolysed turkey26%
• Sweet potato, potato
• Hydrolysed dried turkey11.5%
• Turkey fat9%
• Pea proteinA plant protein.
• Lignocellulose2.5%
• Hydrolysed turkey gravy2.5%Turkey the whole way down.
• Minerals
• Dried yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)0.7%Beta glucans, the usual gut-recipe choice.
• Dried marigold

Animals on the label

Turkey only

Fish in the other three.

Fat, dry matter

16.8%

Highest of the four.

The only bag in the range that holds to one animal, and the one for a fish-free dog.

All four use hydrolysed animal protein, broken into shorter pieces before it reaches the bowl, on a potato and sweet potato base with no wheat, maize or rice. Three add a purified plant fibre, cellulose or lignocellulose, and marigold closes every list as a source of lutein.

Only the digestive recipe keeps to one animal; the other three pair their headline species with a second marine source. No additives panel is published for any of them, so vitamin and trace mineral doses are not printed.

Price per kilo

£9.00 (RRP)

Pack

1.5kg Small Kibble, 10kg Small Kibble (the description's Product Information block says "Available Sizes: 1.4kg, 10kg" - the on-page variation selector says 1.5kg)

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

200 to 245 g a day, 225 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£2.03

Premium end of the market for a dry food, and you pay a little more than the analysis shows.