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Ouzil Fresh Food: Pork & Apple review

Name: Ouzil Fresh Food: Pork & Apple
Brand: Ouzil

85.8/100Outstanding

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Flavour

Fresh dinners cooked the way you might cook them yourself, and all six sit in our Outstanding band. Every label prints a percentage against every entry, down to the herbs. There is no vitamin panel: nothing synthetic goes in.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want to recognise every word on a label
Dogs that thrive on organ meat, fixed at a printed share
A home with dogs of every age, as all three life stages are listed
Working around the common meats, with pork, duck, turkey and venison on offer
Fussy eaters. Gently cooked food smells far closer to the meat

Worth watching

Sweetcorn in the Wild Duck and peas in the Beef and Wild Duck
Fridge or freezer storage and defrosting time
No calcium figure anywhere, the one number to ask for with a large-breed puppy

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

How this scores

How we score

85.8/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. For a large-breed puppy, ask Ouzil for the calcium figure before ordering.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Wild Duck 88.5
Beef 88.3
Wild Venison 87.0
Pork 85.8
Turkey Feast 85.8
Sausage Casserole 84.8

All six Outstanding. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

Every pillar reads Outstanding on every recipe, so let your dog's history pick, not the order they finish in.

What's in it

Pork (including heart, liver)75%Heart at 15% and liver at 5% counted inside the figure.
Kale8%
Butternut squash6.7%
Apple4%Gives the recipe its name.
Dried mint1.8%A generous share for a herb.
Linseed oil1%Plant omega 3.
Ground egg shell0.5%The calcium source.
Sunflower and pumpkin seeds, blackberry, nettle, seaweed, sage, thyme, reishi, spirulinaFractions of a percent, each declared.

No additives panel and nothing synthetic: micronutrients come from egg shell, seaweed, seeds and herbs inside the recipe.

No calcium figure printed. For a large-breed puppy, ask Ouzil for it.

Named ingredients

Pork 75% (including 15% heart & 5% liver), Kale 8%, Butternut Squash 6.7%, Apple 4%, Linseed oil 1%, Dried Mint 1.8%, Ground Egg shell 0.5%, Sunflower Seeds 0.075%, Pumpkin Seeds 0.05%, Dried Blackberry 0.04%, Nettle 0.04%, Seaweed 0.025%, Sage 0.02%, Thyme 0.02%, Reishi 0.015%, Organic Spirulina 0.015%

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 36.5%; Lowest, shared with the Sausage Casserole.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 23.2%; The squash and apple show up here.
Fruit: Apple 4%; Cranberry on the Turkey Feast only.

Pork is still uncommon in a dog bowl, so this is useful when poultry has run its course.

Six recipes, each led by a named animal at 75% with 15% heart and 5% liver counted inside it, then a short row of vegetables and fruit. Linseed oil is the omega 3 source on every label, and egg shell, seaweed, seeds and herbs stand in for a vitamin panel.

Moisture runs from 65.0% to 71.9%, and protein converts to between 36.5% and 55.1% of dry matter. Carbohydrate swings from 0.0% on the Beef to 24.8% on the Turkey Feast, tracking how starchy each recipe's vegetables are.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

148.1 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11.3%

Fat

9.8%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

1.6%

Moisture

69%

Dry weight

Protein

36.5%

Fat

31.6%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

5.2%

Carbs

23.2%

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

76.3%

Added water

1.6%

Veg

19%

Oils

Other

Pricing & size