Fish4Dogs

Fish4Dogs Working Dog: Sardine review

Name: Fish4Dogs Working Dog: Sardine
Brand: Fish4Dogs

65.2/100Good

DryAdult

Flavour

The brand's hardest working recipe, for dogs on the move all day, in three fish versions that all read in our Good band. The sardine finishes top. Every animal ingredient across the range is fish, and salmon oil goes in at a level that would look generous on any dry food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working and sporting dogs, or any pet dog whose day covers real miles
Every size: the feeding table runs from 1kg to 80kg
Fish and nothing but. None of the three carries a land animal
Kennels and busy multi-dog homes after one recipe for everybody

Worth watching

Salmon meal and salmon oil in all three, and the fish version names only a family, so none suits a strict fish exclusion
Energy dense food for hard workers. A quieter dog needs noticeably smaller bowls

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

How this scores

How we score

65.2/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Feed to the bag's own table and let the waistline settle the amount, since these are built for dogs that burn a lot.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Sardine

The score, in context

Sardine 65.2
Salmon 55.0
Fish 51.9

All three Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Little separates the three, so the flavour your dog looks forward to is the better tiebreaker, though the sardine edges ahead on its larger dried fish share and leaner carbohydrate.

What's in it

Sardine26%
Salmon meal21.5%The largest dried fish share in the range.
Sweet potato20%In place of white potato.
Pea starch
Beet pulpFirms up stools on a food eaten in quantity.
Salmon oil5.5%A smaller pour here, yet fat still runs highest of the three.
Brewers yeastKeeps a tired dog interested in the bowl.
Sunflower oil, minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E, taurine at 1 g and iodine, with tocopherol-rich extracts as the preservative.

Named ingredients

Sardine (26%), Salmon Meal (21.5%), Sweet Potato (20%), Pea Starch, Beet Pulp, Salmon Oil (5.5%), Brewers Yeast, Sunflower Oil, Minerals.

Against the range

Salmon meal: 21.5%; About 12% in the other two.
Fat, declared: 15.7%; 12% in the other two.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 43.5%; 47.8% in the other two.
Energy: 380 kcal per 100g; 367 in the other two.

The strongest of the three, and the only one that reads Good on protein and processing.

All three share one skeleton. A fresh named fish sits at the top, with salmon meal as the dried partner that delivers most of the finished protein. Pea starch and a potato make the base, and beet pulp the fibre. No cereal grain and no land animal appears in any of them.

Salmon oil is the fat throughout, at generous levels, with sunflower oil behind it. Brewers yeast and 1 g of taurine run through the range. Iodine is the only mineral quantified on any label. What varies is the lead fish, the size of the salmon meal share and the potato.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

380 kcal/100g

Protein

25.5%

Fat

15.7%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

27.7%

Fat

17.1%

Fibre

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

43.5%

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

47.5%

Carbs

41.3%

Oils

7.3%

Other

3.9%

Pricing & size