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Flourish Adult: English Country Duck review

Name: Flourish Adult: English Country Duck
Brand: Flourish

72.8/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

One construction with the animal swapped: 65% of a single named species in every bag, broken into fresh meat, dried meat and fat or stock. All four land in our Excellent band, with the Angus beef highest. The superfood blend is decoration and the label says as much.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who read past the headline, with fresh and dried shares printed separately
Dogs that do better off cereal. Sweet potato and beans carry the starch
Rotation feeding, since only the animal changes from bag to bag
Big dogs too: the feeding table runs up to a 40kg adult

Worth watching

An unnamed omega 3 supplement, so no recipe is reliably fish free for an exclusion diet
The 65% headline counts fat and stock as well as meat, and neither brings protein

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

How this scores

How we score

72.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. On an exclusion diet, ask Flourish where the omega 3 supplement comes from before choosing a flavour.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Angus Beef 79.6
Scottish Salmon 76.4
Free Range Chicken 75.6
English Country Duck 72.8

All four Excellent. Typical dry food: Good.

Beef and salmon lead on protein and lower starch; the duck trails on the lightest protein and heaviest minerals.

What's in it

Freshly prepared English duck35%
Dried duck22%Does most of the protein work.
Duck fat, duck stock5%, 3%Flavour and energy, no protein.
Sweet potato, beansThe whole carbohydrate base. No cereal, no white potato.
Beet pulp
Dried superfood blend: parsnip, beetroot, orange, asparagus, pumpkinEach item equivalent to 4% fresh before drying, so it sits a long way down the bag.
Omega 3 supplementNo species, no percentage. Its source is left open.
Minerals
FOS, MOS, olive extract175, 50 mg/kg, 0.01%Prebiotics with printed doses; the olive extract is a token antioxidant.

Sulphate trace minerals with a figure each, including selenium at 0.19 mg and copper at 12 mg.

The unnamed omega 3 supplement means this cannot be treated as fish free on a strict exclusion diet.

Named ingredients

65% Duck (Freshly Prepared English Duck (35%), Dried Duck (22%), Duck Fat (5%), Duck Stock (3%)), Sweet Potato, Beans, Beet Pulp, Dried Superfood Blend* (Including Parsnip, Beetroot, Orange, Asparagus, Pumpkin), Omega 3 Supplement, Minerals, Fructooligosaccharides (175 mg/kg), Mannanoligosaccharides (50 mg/kg), Olive Extract (0.01%), *Each equivalent to 4% Fresh Ingredients

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 30.4%, the lightest; Up to 41.3% in the beef
Ash: 9.5%; 6.5% to 9% in the others
Calcium, dry matter: 2.39%; 1.2% to 1.96% in the others

A sound duck recipe, held a little behind its siblings by the mineral load.

Every recipe declares 65% of one named species, printed as three figures: the freshly prepared meat, the dried meat, and the fat, stock or gravy with it. The fresh share is mostly water before cooking and the fat and stock bring no protein, so the dried meat holds the structure up.

Sweet potato and beans are the whole carbohydrate base, with beet pulp for fibre and no cereal or white potato. FOS and MOS carry printed doses on all four. Each recipe has its own superfood blend, and the trace minerals are sulphates, each with a figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

376 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

16%

Fibre

Ash

9.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

17.4%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

10.3%

Carbs

38.6%

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.

Carbs

26.5%

Oils

65%

Other

8.5%

Pricing & size