Eden

Eden Sporting & Working Dry: Fish Cuisine review

Name: Eden Sporting & Working Dry: Fish Cuisine
Brand: Eden

75.1/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

A grain-free range for the dog that puts in a day's work, all three cuisines in our Excellent band. Country Cuisine is duck with lamb, rabbit and a little venison, Fish Cuisine is all fish, and Original blends chicken with salmon and herring. The feeding guide is pitched at a hard working day, not a pet's.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Gundogs and farm dogs, and agility or sled dogs in season
Hard keepers. Country Cuisine runs at 20% fat and 390 kcal per 100g
Owners who rotate animals, as the three change only the species
Working dogs kept off fish, with Country Cuisine
Older working dogs still going out, with joint doses printed on each label

Worth watching

A working ration: a dog between seasons needs less than the table suggests
Calcium and ash run high on Country Cuisine, more than a growing large-breed puppy should have
Fish runs through Original and Fish Cuisine, leaving Country as the only fish-free choice

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

How this scores

How we score

75.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size, in medium or small kibble. Check how hard your dog is working: a dog in full season eats considerably more than one on the sofa.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Original Cuisine 79.3
Country Cuisine 77.7
Fish Cuisine 75.1

All three Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Very little between the three, and the order follows the protein, with Country trading some of it for the fat a long day on the hill wants.

What's in it

Freshly prepared salmon22.5%Leads six fish entries and nothing else animal.
Dried herring21.5%
Dried sweet potato
Dried fish, dried salmon8% eachDried fish names no species.
Freshly prepared trout, white fish6% each
Salmon oil6%
Pea fibre, salmon stock, lucerne, chickpea flour, minerals2% (stock)
Coconut oil, spinach, carrot, apple0.5% (coconut oil)
Green lipped mussel, spirulina0.1% eachShellfish as well as fish.
Chicory root extract, joint trio, herbs480 mg/kg down to 250 mg/kg

Taurine and L-carnitine, which helps shuttle fat towards being burned, with vitamins A, D3 and E and chelated zinc, iron, manganese and copper.

Green lipped mussel on the list, so a dog on this recipe eats shellfish too.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Salmon (22.5%), Dried Herring (21.5%), Dried Sweet Potato, Dried Fish (8%), Dried Salmon (8%), Freshly Prepared Trout (6%), Freshly Prepared White Fish (6%), Salmon Oil (6%), Pea Fibre, Salmon Stock (2%), Lucerne, Chickpea Flour, Minerals, Coconut Oil (0.5%), Dried Spinach, Dried Carrot, Dried Apple, Green Lipped Mussel (0.1%), Spirulina (0.1%), Rosehips, Burdock Root, Camomile, Dried Seaweed, Dried Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Fructo-oligosaccharides (Prebiotic FOS; 0.04%/480 mg/kg)), Glucosamine (0.03%/355 mg/kg), Methylsulphonylmethane (0.03%/355 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.02%/250 mg/kg), Aniseed, Fenugreek, Thyme, Marjoram, Oregano, Parsley, Sage

Against the range

Animals: Six fish, nothing else; Land meats in both others.
Protein, as fed: 43%; The highest of the three.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 22.8%; The lowest of the three.
L-carnitine: 960 mg/kg; Only on this recipe.

The distance dog's recipe, with the most protein and added L-carnitine.

Each recipe opens on named animal entries and keeps going for several lines, fresh meat or fish first with dried entries close behind doing more of the work than their percentages suggest. Dried sweet potato or sweet potato, tapioca and chickpea carry what starch there is, with pea fibre and lucerne; no grain in any of the three. Estimated carbohydrate runs from 22.8% to 26.0% of dry matter.

Glucosamine, MSM and chondroitin are dosed on every label, chicory root supplies FOS, taurine is added throughout, and trace minerals come as chelates. What changes is the species: duck and lamb, all fish, or chicken with salmon and herring.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

366 kcal/100g

Protein

43%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

11%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

46.7%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

12%

Carbs

22.8%

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

74.1%

Carbs

15.4%

Veg

1.5%

Oils

6.5%

Other

2.6%

Pricing & size