Edgard & Cooper Adult Plant-Based Dry: Beetroot & Pumpkin review

1. Beetroot 40.3
2. Carrot 40.2

All two Average. Typical dry food: Good.

The two finish level, and the band reflects a scale built on named animal ingredients more than any carelessness in how this food is made.

• Vegetables: pumpkin, beetroot, potato, swede, parsnip, kale, beans, peas20%Every vegetable named, pumpkin, beetroot and potato at 4% each. A block listed this way cannot quietly change between batches.
• Rice16.5%
• Rice protein11%The largest concentrated protein entry across the two recipes.
• Pea protein, potato protein7%, 4.5%Concentrates spread across sources so the amino acid profile is filled in from several directions.
• Rapeseed oil5.5%The main added fat.
• Dried peas, pea starch4.2%, 4%
• Minerals, dried beet pulp, vegetarian gravy, dried yeastsYeasts 3.1%Beet pulp and yeasts carry part of the fibre.
• Sunflower seed, dried lentils, dried potatoes, linseedPotatoes 2.1%, linseed 1.8%Linseed gives the shorter-chain omega 3 a dog converts slowly.
• Dried lucerne, dried algaeAlgae 0.25%Algae is where fish get their marine omegas, so it stands in for fish here.
• Chicory, apple, blueberries, elderberries, marjoram (all dried)0.12% down to 0.05%Chicory brings inulin for gut bacteria.

Taurine at 2000 mg and vitamin B12 at 300 mcg per kilo cover nutrients that usually arrive with meat, alongside vitamins A, D, E and C and sulphate-form trace minerals with selenium as sodium selenite.

No animal ingredient anywhere on the label, so the protein is entirely plant concentrates.

Vegetables leading

Pumpkin and beetroot at 4% each

Carrot and courgette on the other recipe.

Rice protein

11%

9% on the Carrot and Courgette, with pea protein raised to match.

Extra fibre

Dried beet pulp and yeasts

The other adds lignocellulose.

Leans harder on rice protein, otherwise a near twin of its stablemate.

Both recipes open on a vegetable block declared at 20% with every vegetable named, then rice and three protein concentrates drawn from rice, pea and potato. Rapeseed oil and linseed at 1.8% carry the fats, and dried algae at 0.25% is the marine omega source in place of fish. Dried beet pulp, dried yeasts and chicory do the fibre work.

The analysis and the supplement panel are identical across the pair: taurine at 2000 mg and vitamin B12 at 300 mcg per kilo, selenium as sodium selenite. What varies is the vegetables at the top and how the protein concentrates are split.

Price per kilo

£7.57 (RRP)

Pack

2,5 kg, 7 kg

A 15kg dog eats

180 to 230 g a day, 205 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£1.55

Premium-priced for a dry food, and you pay more than the analysis alone would justify.