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Freshpet Bags: Roasted Meals Tender Chicken review

Name: Freshpet Bags: Roasted Meals Tender Chicken
Brand: Freshpet

84.6/100Outstanding

FreshAdultSenior

Flavour

Fridge food in loose, gently cooked pieces that pour from the bag, and every recipe sits in our Outstanding band. The meat percentages describe the food as you serve it, since nothing is dried. The labels are short and named, though none of them prints ash.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want fresh feeding that still scoops like a dry food
Anyone new to fresh food. Loose pieces mean no slicing and nothing to defrost
Dogs that need the named animal first, at 67% up to 85% before anything else
Small dogs, with one bag portioned for them
Fussy eaters, who tend to respond to the smell of gently cooked meat
A short label: the briefest names eight things in total

Worth watching

Rice flour or oat flour on every label, so none of the three is grain free
Two animals or added egg in two of the bags. A dog kept to one protein needs each list read on its own

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

How this scores

How we score

84.6/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors, with the Small Dog bag sized for small breeds. Check which animals are on the bag you pick if your dog is kept to one protein.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Small Dog Grilled Turkey 89.0
Complete Nutrition Turkey 86.4
Roasted Meals Tender Chicken 84.6

All three Outstanding. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

The small-dog bag edges the other two on our scoring, and the gap between all three is slim.

What's in it

Chicken67%
Chicken liver11%Organ meat, named to species and measured.
Oat flour9.5%Grain sits heavier here than in the other two bags.
Rice bran
Egg2%A second protein source, worth knowing for a dog on one protein.
Carrots, spinach1% and 0.5%
SaltThe only bag in the range with added salt.
Garlic powderA small measured amount, well away from any concern.
Vinegar, celery powderNatural preservatives.

Zinc, iron, copper and manganese as amino acid chelates, the form usually chosen because it absorbs well, with vitamin E, selenium and iodine.

No ash on the label, so the analysis is given as fed.

Named ingredients

Chicken (67%), chicken liver (11%), oat flour (9.5%), rice bran, egg (2%), carrots (1%), salt, garlic powder, vinegar, spinach (0.5%), celery powder

Against the range

Meat: 67% chicken, 11% chicken liver; 85% turkey; 41% pork with 41% turkey.
Grain: Oat flour at 9.5%, plus rice bran; A little rice flour on the other two.
Salt: Added; Neither of the others adds it.

The extra grain and the salt explain its slightly lower placing; the named liver and the roasted smell are what it gives back.

Meat leads every label by a wide margin, from 67% chicken with 11% chicken liver up to 85% turkey, and every animal is named. Potato starch, rice flour or oat flour bind the pieces, so none of the three is grain free. Pea protein turns up on two labels and lifts the protein figure without adding animal.

No label prints ash, so the analysis stays as fed: protein between 15.0% and 17.0%, moisture between 59.0% and 74.0%. Celery powder and vinegar close nearly every list as natural preservatives.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

202 kcal/100g

Protein

15%

Fat

11%

Fibre

0.6%

Moisture

59.5%

Dry weight

Protein

37%

Fat

27.2%

Fibre

1.5%

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

80%

Added water

5.4%

Carbs

11.7%

Veg

1.7%

Other

1.3%

Pricing & size