Eukanuba

Eukanuba Special Care Mono-Protein Duck Adult All Breed review

Name: Eukanuba Special Care Mono-Protein Duck Adult All Breed
Brand: Eukanuba

57.9/100Good

DryAdult

One bird from top to bottom, and it finishes in our Good band. The single-protein promise holds right down the list: duck fat, duck gravy, and linseed covering the omega 3s where many recipes slip in fish oil. The small print adds two prebiotics, taurine and trace minerals as amino acid chelates.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A vet-guided exclusion trial, with duck the only animal named
Dogs that have reacted to everyday chicken and beef recipes
Cereal-free homes. Potato, whole peas and sweet potato do the binding
An unsettled gut, with two prebiotics declared at 0.25% and 0.15%
Minerals dosed in print, zinc at 62.5 mg and iron at 50 mg per kilo

Worth watching

Nothing new for a dog already tried on duck
Carbohydrate is estimated at 50.2% of dry matter, against 46.2% typical for adult dry food

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

How this scores

How we score

57.9/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Feed from Eukanuba's table and let the waistline settle any gap with our estimate.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Eukanuba Special Care Mono-Protein Duck Adult All Breed 57.9

All one Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Discipline earns the placing: one animal throughout and a mineral panel named and dosed in full.

What's in it

Freshly frozen duck19%Largely water, driven off in the oven.
Duck meal19%Does much of the finished kibble's protein work. Printing the two separately is the useful part.
Potato, whole peasWhole peas bring fibre and a little plant protein.
Sweet potato12%
Pea starch
Duck fat5%The added fat, from the same bird.
Dried beet pulp3%The fibre.
Duck gravy2%The palatant, still duck.
Linseed, mineralsLinseed gives plant omega 3, with no fish oil.
Fructooligosaccharides, mannanoligosaccharides0.25%, 0.15%Prebiotics that feed the gut's own bacteria.

Iron, copper, zinc and manganese as amino acid chelates, generally the form a dog takes up most readily, with taurine at 500 mg and L-carnitine at 50 mg.

Named ingredients

Freshly frozen duck (19%), duck meal (19%), potato, whole peas, sweet potato (12%), pea starch, duck fat (5%),dried beet pulp (3%), duck gravy (2%), linseed, minerals, fructooligosaccharides (0.25%, a natural prebiotic), mannanoligosaccharides (0.15%, a natural prebiotic).

Against the range

One grain-free adult kibble with duck as the only animal: freshly frozen duck and duck meal at 19% each, duck fat at 5% and duck gravy at 2%. Potato, whole peas, sweet potato at 12% and pea starch carry the starch. Moisture is not declared, so the dry matter figures assume 8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

347.4 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

24%

Fat

12%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

7.2%

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

13%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

7.8%

Carbs

50.2%

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

40%

Carbs

50.7%

Oils

Other

4.3%

Pricing & size