Eden

Eden Sporting & Working Dry: Original Cuisine review

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

79.3/100Excellent

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

79.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

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

Chicken

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 chicken19%
Dried chicken18%Does more of the finished work than the fresh entry above it.
Freshly prepared salmon15%
Dried herring12%Poultry and fish share the load evenly.
Sweet potato10%
Tapioca
Chicken fat, dried duck, chicken gravy4.5%, 4%, 2.5%
White fish, dried whole egg2.5% each
Pea fibre, lucerne, chickpeas, minerals, carrot, spinach, apple
Chicory root extract, joint trio, herbs435 mg/kg down to 250 mg/kg

Taurine with vitamins A, D3 and E, zinc as an amino acid chelate, iron and manganese as protein hydrolysate chelates, and iodine.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Chicken (19%), Dried Chicken (18%), Freshly Prepared Salmon (15%), Dried Herring (12%), Sweet Potato (10%), Tapioca, Chicken Fat (4.5%), Dried Duck (4%), Chicken Gravy (2.5%), Freshly Prepared White Fish (2.5%), Dried Whole Egg (2.5%), Pea Fibre, Lucerne, Chickpeas, Minerals, Dried Carrot, Dried Spinach, Dried Apple, Dried Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Fructo-oligosaccharides (Prebiotic FOS; 0.04%/435 mg/kg)), Glucosamine (0.03%/355.5 mg/kg), Methylsulfonylmethane (0.03%/355.5 mg/kg), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.02%/250 mg/kg), Dried Rosehips, Dried Camomile, Burdock Root, Dried Seaweed, Dried Cranberry, Aniseed, Fenugreek, Thyme, Marjoram, Oregano, Parsley, Sage.

Against the range

Animals: Chicken, salmon, herring, duck; Duck and lamb, or six fish, in the others.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.74%; The gentlest of the three; Country reads 2.61%.
Ash, dry matter: 10.3%; 12% on the others.

The best-balanced of the three on our pillars, and the leader of the line.

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

372 kcal/100g

Protein

42%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

45.7%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

10.3%

Carbs

23.9%

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

75.5%

Carbs

18%

Veg

0.7%

Oils

4.5%

Other

1.3%

Pricing & size