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Feelwell's Feelwells Cold Pressed: Grain Free Duck review

Name: Feelwell's Feelwells Cold Pressed: Grain Free Duck
Brand: Feelwell's

72.6/100Excellent

Cold pressedPuppyAdult

Flavour

Three cold-pressed recipes on one rule: half the bag is a named animal, printed as 50%. No cereal appears in any of them. The duck and the lamb land in our Excellent band and the fish a step under in Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that need cereal off the menu
Older and heavy-framed dogs, with glucosamine, chondroitin and green lipped mussel on all three
Owners who like a meat figure on the label
A settled preference across fish, duck and lamb
Any size of dog. The feeding chart runs from toy breeds past 60kg

Worth watching

Green lipped mussel in all three, and salmon oil in the fish, so none is shellfish or fish free
High ash on the lamb, a sign of plenty of bone
Beet pulp at 14% in the fish recipe, for a dog that does better on lighter fibre

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

How this scores

How we score

72.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. The fat is low, so a hard-working dog may simply need a bigger bowl.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Grain Free Duck 72.6
Lamb 70.0
Fish 65.4

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The duck and the lamb finish close together, with the fish a little way back on lower fat and a slightly less open label.

What's in it

Duck50%The one animal from land.
Sweet potato31%
Beet pulpThe fibre.
Linseed oil, rapeseed oilPlant fats, no marine oil.
Vitamins and minerals
Carrot, apple, blueberry, seaweedSeaweed brings iodine and a broad mineral spread.
Fennel seed, FOS, sage, thyme, nettle, oregano, yucca extractFOS feeds gut bacteria; yucca has long been used against stool odour.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, green lipped musselNo doses printed. Mussel is a shellfish.

Vitamins A, B group, C, D3, E and K, zinc, manganese, copper and iron, with calcium declared at 1.5% and phosphorus at 1%.

Named ingredients

Duck 50%, Sweet Potato 31%, Beet Pulp, Linseed Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Vitamins & Minerals, Carrot, Apple, Blueberry, Seaweed, Fennel Seed, FOS, Sage Leaf, Thyme, Nettle, Oregano, Yucca Extract, Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulphate, Green Lipped Mussel

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 38.0%; The highest; the lamb is 31.5%.
Energy: 316 kcal per 100g, estimated; 303 on the lamb, 330 on the fish.
Fish oil: None; Salmon oil in the fish recipe.

The strongest of the three on our scoring, best read as one land animal plus a shellfish.

All three follow one rule: a named animal at 50%, sweet potato at around a third, beet pulp for fibre, then a long tail of whole foods at low inclusion. No cereal, no derivatives and no unnamed fat appear in any of them. Green lipped mussel, glucosamine and chondroitin are on every label, without doses.

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%. Fat runs low across the range, from 8.6% to 12.0% of dry matter, and carbohydrate lands between 33.5% and 36.2%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

316 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

35%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

11%

Dry weight

Protein

38%

Fat

10.9%

Fibre

5.4%

Ash

12%

Carbs

33.7%

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

50%

Carbs

40.7%

Veg

Oils

5.2%

Other

2.1%

Pricing & size