Dachshund Superfood Veterinary Range: Weight Control and Joint 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 white fish26%
• Potato
• Hydrolysed dried white fish11.5%
• Pea protein, sweet potato
• Salmon oil5.5%
• Lignocellulose, beet pulp, pea fibre5.5%, 4%, 4%The fibre load that fills a dog on fewer calories.
• Hydrolysed salmon gravy2.5%
• Minerals
• Green lipped mussel0.3%The joint entry, a whole food source.
• Marigold

Fat

9%

14.5% to 15.5% on the others.

Fibre

8.5%

Highest in the range.

Energy

315 kcal per 100g

Lightest bowl of the four.

The lean one, for a small dog that needs to lose a little and keep moving.

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)

240 to 295 g a day, 270 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£2.43

The lightest bowl, so it costs the most a day of the four.

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