Ouzil

Ouzil Scotch Egg review

Name: Ouzil Scotch Egg
Brand: Ouzil

81.7/100Outstanding

FreshPuppyAdult

Exactly what the name promises, made for a dog, and it sits in our Outstanding band. Egg and pork are essentially the whole of it, so protein and fat do all the work and carbohydrate barely registers. The maker even prints its natural supplement line by line.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that already know chicken and beef: pork is still a rarity in the bowl
Owners who like a label that reads at a glance
Hungry, hard-working dogs
Households already feeding fresh
Puppies through to older dogs, with every life stage named on the pack

Worth watching

Egg and pork in every mouthful, so no good for a dog steering round either
Fat at 47.3% of dry matter: weigh portions for a steady dog on gentle exercise
Ground egg shell supplies the calcium, but no calcium figure is given

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

How this scores

How we score

81.7/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. For a large-breed puppy, raise the missing calcium figure with the maker before ordering.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Ouzil Scotch Egg 81.7

All one Outstanding. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

A strong showing on a shelf where the standard is already high, and the reading follows the label almost exactly.

What's in it

Free range eggClose to the benchmark other proteins are measured against.
Sausage meat, from home reared porkHighly palatable, and plenty of dogs have never met it.
Natural supplementSeeds, berries, herbs, seaweed, reishi and spirulina, each weighed. Seaweed does the iodine, ground egg shell the calcium.
Dried parsley

Sunflower seeds at 0.75g and pumpkin seeds at 0.5g per kilo lead the supplement, with ground egg shell at 0.5g per 100g.

No moisture figure on the label, so the dry matter column assumes 70%; the figures add up to more than the food can hold, so read them as its shape.

Named ingredients

100% free range egg and sausage meat (from home reared pork), all natural supplement and dried parsley.

Against the range

One scotch egg for dogs: a free range egg wrapped in sausage meat from the maker's home reared pork, plus a natural supplement printed ingredient by ingredient and a little dried parsley. No cereal, no vegetable, nothing synthetic.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

185.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

18.6%

Fat

14.2%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

1.2%

Dry weight

Protein

62%

Fat

47.3%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

Carbs

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

100%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £19.67 (RRP)
Pack: "*1 scotch egg per pack*. Please note the size per egg is approximately 275g"
A 15kg dog eats: 345 to 480 g a day, 415 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £8.16

One egg of around 275g to a pack: a whole meal for a small dog, part of one for a larger dog.

Premium end of the fresh market, and strong value for what is in the recipe.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.