Pooch & Mutt

Pooch & Mutt Fresh Dry Food: Chicken review

Name: Pooch & Mutt Fresh Dry Food: Chicken
Brand: Pooch & Mutt

57.5/100Good

DryPuppyAdult

Flavour

Two dry recipes with one of the most detailed labels on the shelf: almost every ingredient carries its own percentage. The chicken bag leads on 50% fresh chicken, the salmon bag on 35% fresh salmon and 15% fresh insect. Both land in our Good band, and the insect makes the salmon a real option for a dog that reacts to the usual meats.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who read labels properly. Almost every entry, down to the dried dill, has a percentage
A house with a puppy and an older dog: both recipes run from puppy to senior
Large breed puppies. The calcium declaration on both suits a big frame growing fast
Joints worth protecting. Glucosamine, chondroitin and green-lipped mussels are dosed in print
Dogs kept off poultry and red meat. They have the salmon and insect bag

Worth watching

Unnamed poultry on the chicken bag. Neither the fat nor the hydrolysed liver names its bird, so turkey, duck or goose cannot be ruled out
Neither bag is fish free. Crushed egg shells put egg on both lists
Lignocellulose is a purified fibre for bulk. It does not come from a whole vegetable

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

How this scores

How we score

57.5/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed from puppy to senior, every size. Check which proteins your dog must avoid: the chicken bag has unnamed poultry and salmon oil, the salmon bag has no land animal at all.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 57.5
Salmon 56.0

All two Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The two are close, and the chicken's slight edge comes from more animal protein getting over the line.

What's in it

Fresh chicken50%Mostly water by weight, so the finished protein is 27.8% of dry matter.
Sweet potatoes, chickpeas, potato flakes, red lentils12% down to 3%The starch. Sweet potato leads it, which brings fibre and vitamins along. No cereal.
Dried apple pulp, pumpkin3% eachSoft fibre.
Hydrolysed yeast3%A broken down yeast for palatability and gut support.
Poultry fat5%The one vague entry on a careful label. Poultry could be chicken, turkey, duck or goose.
Lignocellulose2%Purified plant fibre that bulks the food with almost no calories.
Salmon oil, hydrolysed poultry liver2% eachThe liver keeps a dog coming back to the bowl. It does not name its bird either.
Crushed egg shells1.5%The calcium source. Egg is on the list because of it.
Dried spinach, carrots, rosehip, berries, herbs, kelp1% down to 0.1%Small amounts, for flavour and colour.
Glucosamine, green-lipped mussels, chondroitin, brewer's yeast, chicory root, Lactobacillus0.026% down to 0.01%Joint and gut support, small by weight as these usually are, each with a printed dose.

Salmon oil at 2% is on this bag too, so neither recipe is fish free.

Named ingredients

Fresh Chicken (50 %), Sweet Potatoes (12 %), Chickpeas (5 %), Potato Flakes, Dried Apple Pulp (3 %), Red Lentils (3 %), Hydrolysed Yeast (3 %), Pumpkin (3 %), Poultry Fat (5%), Lignocellulose (2 %), Salmon Oil (2 %), Hydrolysed Poultry Liver (2 %), Crushed Egg Shells (1.5 %), Dried Spinach (1 %), Dried Carrots (1 %), Potassium Chloride (0.4 %), Dried Rosehip (0.2 %), Dried Parsnip (0.2 %), Dried Blueberries (0.1 %), Dried Cranberries (0.1 %), Dried Rosemary (0.1 %), Dried Thyme (0.1 %), Dried Kelp (0.1 %), Dried Dill (0.1 %), Glucosamine (0.026 %), Green-Lipped Mussels (0.025 %), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.016 %), Brewer's Yeast (source of Mannan-oligosaccharides, 0.015 %), Chicory Root (source of Fructo-oligosaccharides, 0.01 %), Dried Turmeric (0.01 %), Mojave Yucca (0.01 %), Lactobacillus helveticus HA-122 inactivated (15x10¹¹ cells/kg).

Against the range

Meat: 50% chicken; 35% salmon, 15% insect
Protein, dry matter: 27.8%; 24.4%
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 40.5%; 44.5%
Calcium, dry matter: 1.33%; 1.44%

The meatier, more energy dense bag at 378 kcal per 100g, and the pick for a dog with no quarrel with poultry.

Both recipes lead on fresh meat and sit on the same starch base: sweet potato first, then potato flakes, chickpeas and red lentils, with no cereal in either. Fat lands around 20% of dry matter in both. Lignocellulose at 2% bulks each bag, and crushed egg shells at 1.5% are the calcium source.

The supplement tail is shared and dosed in print: glucosamine, green-lipped mussels and chondroitin sulphate for joints, brewer's yeast and chicory root for the gut, and an inactivated Lactobacillus culture to close. What varies is the animal side and the fats. The chicken uses poultry fat and salmon oil; the salmon uses coconut, sunflower and microalgae oils.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

378.5 kcal/100g

Protein

25%

Fat

18%

Fibre

4.2%

Ash

6.3%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

27.8%

Fat

20%

Fibre

4.7%

Ash

Carbs

40.5%

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

53.5%

Carbs

22.9%

Veg

9.2%

Oils

Other

7.3%

Pricing & size