Eden Gourmet Range: Duck and Herring review

1. Salmon 67.9
2. Goose 67.6
3. Duck 66.8

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

So close together that the order tells you little; what you are really choosing is an animal.

• Freshly prepared duck (HDP)43%Weighed wet, so a smaller share of the finished kibble than it looks.
• Dried duck6.5%Does more work than its percentage suggests.
• Duck fat, duck stock5.5%, 1.5%
• Dried herring3.5%The fish on the label.
• Dried sweet potato20.5%
• Chickpea flour, potato proteinPlant proteins, digested less completely than meat.
• Pea fibre, tapioca, minerals2.5% tapioca
• Chicory root extract, brewers' yeast extract1150mg/kg FOS, 315mg/kg MOSTwo prebiotics, both stated outright.
• Turmeric, green lipped mussel0.1% eachA seasoning of support, not a therapeutic dose.

Taurine at 962 mg/kg, trace minerals as chelates and selenium as selenised yeast, the better-absorbed forms.

Meat

Fresh duck 43%

The largest single fresh entry in the range.

Fish

Dried herring 3.5%

Salmon leads the third recipe; goose and turkey has none.

Protein, dry matter

28.8%

Lowest of the three; the goose is 29.9%.

A good landing spot when the everyday birds have lost their charm.

Every label splits 60% animal against 40% vegetables, botanicals and functional extras, and prints the parts of both. Dried sweet potato, chickpea flour and tapioca carry the starch, and potato protein appears in all three. Green lipped mussel and turmeric sit at 0.1%, and FOS and MOS are dosed in print.

In dry matter, protein runs from 28.8% to 29.9% and carbohydrate from 37.0% to 39.1%. Fat is high for a kibble at 18.5% to 19.0%. What varies is how the 60% is built: one big fresh entry, or a stack of fresh and dried meats.

Price per kilo

£12.50 (RRP)

Pack

Bag sizes: 100g Sample, 2kg, 10Kg

A 15kg dog eats

190 g a day

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£2.38

Premium end of the market for a dry food, with a premium on what the analysis shows.