Fleischeslust

Fleischeslust Classic Menu Junior: Juicy Beef with Cottage Cheese and Courgette review

Name: Fleischeslust Classic Menu Junior: Juicy Beef with Cottage Cheese and Courgette
Brand: Fleischeslust

84.1/100Outstanding

WetPuppy

Flavour

A German wet food for growing dogs that puts 75% meat in both recipes and then prints exactly which parts of the animal went in. Calcium is declared on both and lands where growth wants it, which a puppy label so rarely shows. Both sit in our Outstanding band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies of any size, with calcium at 0.95% and 1.06% of dry matter, both inside the growth range
Large breed pups in particular. An in-range calcium figure is the one their skeletons depend on
Hungry growing pups, at 142 kcal per 100g against the 106 typical of a wet puppy food
Owners who want organ meat named, with hearts and liver printed among the other parts
Grain-free homes; potato starch holds each recipe together

Worth watching

No vitamin or trace mineral doses published, so what sits behind the minerals entry stays out of view
Cottage cheese in both, if milk has upset your pup before
A beef recipe built heavily on offal. Move a pup used to plain muscle meat across over several days

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

How this scores

How we score

84.1/100Outstanding

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Feed from the maker's chart for your pup's current weight and age, and revisit it as the pup grows.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Juicy Beef 84.1
Juicy Turkey 82.4

All two Outstanding. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A large meat share broken down part by part, a modest starch load and printed calcium carry both recipes, with the beef ahead by a whisker.

What's in it

Beef: lung, heart, muscle meat, liver, kidney, udder, tripe75%Every part named. Liver brings vitamin A, B12, copper and iron.
Broth8.3%Carries the flavour.
Cottage cheese4%Easily digested dairy protein with some calcium.
Courgette, carrot3.3% each
Potato starchThe one entry adding starch for its own sake; carbohydrate converts to 17.9% of dry matter.
Minerals
Rosehip0.2%
Eggshell mealThe calcium source, and it does the job well.
Yucca root, brewer's yeast, nettle, seaweed0.1% nettle and seaweedThe yeast brings B vitamins.
Salmon oil0.1%A little marine omega 3, and fish in the pack.

Salmon oil at 0.1% puts fish in this recipe. For a fish-avoiding pup, that is the line to read.

Named ingredients

75 % Rind (Lunge, Herzen, Fleisch, Leber, Nieren, Euter, Pansen), 8.3 % Brühe, 4 % körniger Frischkäse, 3.3 % Zucchini, 3.3 % Karotte, Kartoffelstärke, Mineralstoffe, 0.2 % Hagebutte, Eierschalenmehl, Yuccawurzel, Bierhefe, 0.1 % Brennnessel, 0.1 % Seealge, 0.1 % Lachsöl.

Against the range

Meat: 75% beef, heavy on offal; Turkey meat with gizzards, hearts and liver.
Protein, dry matter: 45.6%; 44.4% on the turkey.
Calcium, dry matter: 0.95%; 1.06% on the turkey.
Fish oil: Salmon oil at 0.1%; None on the turkey.

The richer of the two in organ meat, and the one with fish in it.

Both recipes are 75% meat with every part named, followed by broth at 8.3%, cottage cheese at 4%, two vegetables at 3.3% each and potato starch to bind. Eggshell meal supplies the calcium, and brewer's yeast and yucca root appear on both.

Moisture is declared at 71.5% and 71.6%, low for a wet food, so protein converts to 45.6% and 44.4% of dry matter. The botanical tail is where the two part ways. Neither publishes a dosed vitamin and trace element panel.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

142 kcal/100g

Protein

13%

Fat

8.1%

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

2.1%

Moisture

71.5%

Dry weight

Protein

45.6%

Fat

28.4%

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

7.4%

Carbs

17.9%

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

75%

Added water

3.4%

Veg

3.3%

Other

18.3%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £10.61 (RRP)
Pack: 200 g, 400 g, 800 g (also sold by the tray: 15 x 200 g, 16 x 400 g, 12 x 800 g)
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 530 to 650 g a day, 590 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £6.26

Premium end of the market for a wet food, and good value for the quality on offer.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.