Forthglade

Forthglade Complete Meal with Brown Rice Adult: Ocean Fish review

Name: Forthglade Complete Meal with Brown Rice Adult: Ocean Fish
Brand: Forthglade

62.2/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

The brand's everyday adult tray, built about as plainly as a complete wet meal can be. Chicken, lamb and turkey sit in our Excellent band, with ocean fish a step below in Good. The label does most of the lifting, with a percentage against nearly every entry down to the yucca.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept to one animal. Chicken, lamb and turkey each name a single species and no other animal fat or oil
A dog that does better with a gentle grain, here only brown rice at 4%
Older dogs and heavier breeds feeling their joints
Owners who want trace elements dosed on the label
Dogs shy of the water bowl

Worth watching

Ocean Fish names no species, so it cannot carry an exclusion trial for one fish
Brown rice in all four, so none is grain free
Joint support at an everyday level. A diagnosed joint problem still needs what the vet has given

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

How this scores

How we score

62.2/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The maker's chart gives a 15kg dog 395 grams a day on all four; check how many trays that is before choosing a box size.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Chicken 77.5
Lamb 77.0
Turkey 76.4
Ocean Fish 62.2

Four recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Three recipes match the best of everyday wet food, and Ocean Fish drops a step only because its fish is unnamed and lean.

What's in it

Ocean fish75%A category, with no species named.
Brown rice4%
Carrots, peas2% each
Minerals
Linseed oil0.5%The only added oil, plant based.
Dried seaweed0.45%Iodine and trace minerals.
Herbs: camomile, parsley, rosemary, nettle0.12%
Glucosamine, chondroitin50mg/kg eachEveryday joint support, dosed in print.
Chicory root extract, yucca extract0.05%, 0.005%

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc, iron and copper chelated to glycine or amino acids, usually taken up more easily than a plain salt, and iodine.

The fish is unnamed, so this recipe cannot steer a dog away from one particular fish.

Named ingredients

Ocean Fish (75%)*, Brown Rice (4%)*, Carrots (2%), Peas (2%)*, Minerals, Linseed Oil (0.5%)*, Dried Seaweed (0.45%)*, Herbs (Camomile, Parsley, Rosemary, Nettle) (0.12%)*, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligosaccharide (0.05%)*, Glucosamine (50mg/kg), Chondroitin (50mg/kg), Yucca Extract (0.005%)*. *natural ingredient

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 16.1%; By far the leanest; 26.8% to 28.6% elsewhere.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 33.9%; 17.8% to 21.4% on the others.
Energy: 108 kcal per 100g; Lowest, so servings run largest.

The lean choice, for a dog that needs fewer calories from its tray.

Every label is 75% of one animal, then brown rice at 4%, carrots and peas at 2% each, minerals, linseed oil and a short row of extras with a percentage on nearly all of them. Linseed is the only added oil, so the chicken, lamb and turkey recipes hold no second animal at all.

Glucosamine and chondroitin at 50 mg/kg each, dried seaweed and a named herb blend run through all four, with the same chelated vitamin and mineral panel. Moisture is 72.0% across the range. What moves is the fat, and with it the carbohydrate estimate, which climbs on the leaner fish.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

108.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10.5%

Fat

4.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

72%

Dry weight

Protein

37.5%

Fat

16.1%

Fibre

1.8%

Ash

10.7%

Carbs

33.9%

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

9.5%

Carbs

Veg

2.5%

Oils

0.5%

Other

6.5%

Pricing & size