Pets Love Fresh

Pets Love Fresh Adult: Simply Duck review

Name: Pets Love Fresh Adult: Simply Duck
Brand: Pets Love Fresh

60.1/100Good

FreshAdult

Flavour

Four gently cooked recipes with almost nothing in them but the animal, and each keeps to a single species. That is rare enough to be the whole reason to try them. All four sit in our Good band, with nutritional balance Outstanding throughout and the duck just ahead.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Elimination diets: one animal is all any recipe carries
Owners who want a list short enough to check at a glance
Low-starch feeding, with no cereal, potato or pulse anywhere
Dogs with a history of chicken or beef trouble. Pork and duck are new ground for most
Adults of every build, toy to giant

Worth watching

Cold storage and a defrosting routine, a change from feeding from a bag
Estimated calorie figures, so let the waistline settle the portion
The duck is the richest in fat; ease into it for a delicate stomach

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

How this scores

How we score

60.1/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Weigh the first week's portions, then let condition guide you.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Simply Duck 60.1
Simply Pork 59.2
Simply Chicken 58.9
Simply Beef 58.5

All four Good. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

Barely anything separates the four, and finishing below the fresh field's typical mark reflects the company kept, not the food.

What's in it

Duck meat80%
Duck offal10%Organs unnamed.
Chicory pulp
Cranberry powder
Vitamins and minerals
Herbs (botanical mix)

The richest of the four; introduce it gradually to a dog whose stomach is easily unsettled.

Named ingredients

Duck meat 80%, Duck Offal 10%, Chicory pulp, Cranberry powder, Vitamins & Minerals, Herbs (botanical mix)

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 35.1%; 29.1% to 31.6% on the others.
Protein, dry matter: 38.6%; Up to 50.9% on the beef and chicken.
Energy: 138 kcal per 100g; 124 on the beef and chicken.

Leads the four on our scoring, and the richness means slightly smaller portions.

Each recipe keeps to one animal from first line to last: 80% meat with 10% offal or heart on the beef, chicken and duck, and 85% meat with 5% heart on the pork. The only plant entries are chicory pulp, cranberry powder and a herb mix, and none of the four carries cereal, potato or pulse.

Vitamins and minerals arrive as a single line, not a dosed panel, and the offal is never broken down by organ. Fat runs from 29.1% of dry matter on the beef and chicken to 35.1% on the duck.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

137.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11%

Fat

10%

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

71.5%

Dry weight

Protein

38.6%

Fat

35.1%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

8.8%

Carbs

14%

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

90%

Added water

Veg

Other

Pricing & size