Frolic

Frolic Complete: Mini, Chicken Flavour review

Name: Frolic Complete: Mini, Chicken Flavour
Brand: Frolic

18.9/100Poor

WetAdult

Flavour

A semi-moist food: soft pieces that pour and store like kibble but chew like something much gentler. Both recipes sit in our Poor band, driven by vague wording and a big cereal share, with nothing alarming in the food itself. For a dog that finds biscuit hard going, the texture is the whole appeal.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that struggle with hard kibble, through age, dental history or simple preference
Dry-food convenience without the crunch: nothing to soak, warm or refrigerate
Small dogs, with their own Mini recipe in an 800g bag
Adults of every size on the beef recipe

Worth watching

Category terms throughout, so beyond the named 4% the animals and cereals can change between batches
Fish oil and fish by-products in both, so neither is fish free
Milk, sugars and colourants in the Mini only

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

How this scores

How we score

18.9/100Poor

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyPoor

ValuePoor

The details

Dog fit

The beef recipe is listed for adults from toy to giant, the Mini for small adults. Fat runs fairly high, so keep an eye on portions for a less active dog.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

Frolic Complete 22.8
Mini 18.9

All two Poor. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The band describes the label more than the dinner: category wording and a large cereal share collect little credit, and a dog settled and well on it is doing nothing wrong.

What's in it

Cereals (4% wheat)
By-products of vegetable origin
Meats and animal by-products (4% fresh poultry meat)Chicken Flavour names the taste, not the bird.
Oils and fats (1% sunflower oil, 0.25% fish oil)
Vegetables (green beans)4%
Mineral substances
Milk and dairy products, sugarsThe sugars sweeten the piece and help it stay soft.
Fish and fish by-products

Vitamins A, D3 and E with the trace minerals dosed in print, plus preservatives and colourants.

Milk and dairy products, sugars and colourants appear on this recipe and not on the beef.

Named ingredients

Cereals (includes 4% wheat), by-products of vegetable origin, meats and animal by-products (includes 4% fresh poultry meat), oils and fats (includes 1% sunflower oil, includes 0.25% fish oil), vegetables (4% green beans), mineral substances, milk and dairy products, sugars, fish and fish by-products.

Against the range

Meat: 4% fresh poultry, bird unnamed; Beef: 4% beef, 4% fresh meat
Vegetable: Green beans, 4%; Beef has carrots
Fat, dry matter: 18.1%; Beef 20.1%
Bag: 800g only, for small dogs; Beef in three sizes

Made for small dogs, though it carries the dairy and sugar the beef recipe leaves out.

Both recipes are written mostly in legal category terms: grains, by-products of vegetable origin, meats and animal by-products. The few named entries are wheat, the headline meat and a vegetable at 4% each, sunflower oil at 1% and fish oil at 0.25%. Cereal carries most of the bowl and protein is modest. The Mini adds milk, sugars and colourants that the beef recipe does not carry.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

319.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

17%

Fat

14.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

Moisture

20%

Dry weight

Protein

21.2%

Fat

18.1%

Fibre

3.1%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

48.8%

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

18%

Carbs

70.1%

Veg

4.2%

Oils

5.4%

Other

2.3%

Pricing & size