Edgard & Cooper

Edgard & Cooper Grain Free Adult Dry: Fresh Duck review

Name: Edgard & Cooper Grain Free Adult Dry: Fresh Duck
Brand: Edgard & Cooper

53.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

Five animals on one grain free skeleton, and all five sit in our Good band. Each opens on a fresh meat at 40% in front of sweet potato and potato. Every ingredient is named and nothing hides behind a category word, so transparency reads Outstanding on all of them.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that do without grain, with dried sweet potato and potato carrying the starch
Owners who rotate proteins. Only the animal changes between bags
Dogs kept off land meats: the Norwegian Salmon has no other animal in it
Older dogs, glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate both printed at 0.02%
A delicate stomach, with dried chicory at 0.5% and dried yeasts on the prebiotic side

Worth watching

Pea protein and potato protein in every recipe, so part of the protein is plant
Salmon oil on all five labels, so none is fish free
Starch despite the grain free billing, carbohydrate between 43.6% and 44.7% of dry matter

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

How this scores

How we score

53.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The maker's chart puts a 15kg dog at 150 to 195 grams a day; settle the scoop with your hands on your dog's ribs.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Free-run Chicken 54.5
Grass-fed Lamb 54.1
Venison 54.0
Norwegian Salmon 53.7
Fresh Duck 53.2

All five Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The fresh meat and a fully named list carry all five; the plant proteins behind the meat and a starch share near the category average keep them from climbing.

What's in it

Fresh duck40%Weighed fresh, so it shrinks in the oven.
Sweet potato (dried)13.4%The gentler starch, and the one doing most of the carrying.
Potatoes, peas (dried)
Pea protein, potato proteinPlant protein doing real work in the final figure, since the fresh meat shrinks in the oven.
Duck gravy, sunflower oil
Linseed2%Plant omega 3.
Salmon oil2%A heavier hand than the chicken, so more marine omega 3.
Beet pulp, minerals, yeasts, tomato pomace, chicory0.5% (chicory)Chicory supplies inulin as a prebiotic.
Pumpkin, kale, blueberries, apple, parsley, rosehip0.2% down to 0.02%Seasoning; none of it changes the meal.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.02% eachCredit for printing them, though at this level they are a gentle nudge.

Taurine at 1000 mg, vitamin E at 600 mg and vitamin C at 175 mg per kilo, with the trace minerals as sulphates and selenium as sodium selenite.

No moisture figure on this label, so its dry matter figures rest on an assumed 8%.

Named ingredients

Fresh duck* 40%, sweet potato* (dried) 13.4%, potatoes* (dried), pea protein*, peas* (dried), potato protein, linseed* 2%, beet pulp* (dried), salmon oil* 2%, duck gravy, minerals*, tomato pomace*, yeasts* (dried) 1%, sunflower oil*, chicory* (dried) 0.5%, pumpkin* (dried) 0.2%, kale* (dried) 0.2%, blueberries* (dried) 0.05%, apple* (dried) 0.05%, parsley* (dried) 0.02%, rosehip* (dried) 0.02%, glucosamine 0.02%, chondroitin sulphate* 0.02%. *Natural

Against the range

Meat: Fresh duck, 40%; Chicken, lamb or salmon at 40%; duck at 35% with venison
Salmon oil: 2%; 0.4% on the chicken, 0.1% on the salmon
Moisture: Not declared; 8% declared on the other four

A useful change for a dog that has had enough of the everyday birds.

Every recipe opens on a fresh meat at 40%, or duck and venison together on the fifth, then dried sweet potato, potatoes and peas with pea protein and potato protein. There is no grain anywhere. Linseed at 2%, beet pulp, chicory and a printed pinch of glucosamine and chondroitin are on all five.

Salmon oil is on every label, from 0.1% to 2%. Protein converts to 27.2% of dry matter across the range and carbohydrate to between 43.6% and 44.7%. The animal and the gravy are what change.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

373.9 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

15%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

7.4%

Dry weight

Protein

27.2%

Fat

16.3%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

Carbs

44.7%

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

41.7%

Carbs

51%

Veg

1.4%

Oils

2.2%

Other

3.7%

Pricing & size