Pooch & Mutt

Pooch & Mutt Veterinary Hepatic/Liver Dry Food review

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

Pooch & Mutt sells this one through its Veterinary range as a hepatic diet. It is an egg-led kibble, put forward for a dog whose liver a vet is managing.

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A hepatic diet from Pooch & Mutt's Veterinary range: an egg-led kibble for a dog whose liver a vet is managing. Protein is pitched low and starch high, which is how a diet in this category is normally drawn up. We do not score veterinary diets, so this page sets out the label and leaves the judgement to your vet.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs whose vet is managing a liver condition
Owners who want nearly every entry printed with its percentage
A dog that does well on egg as its main whole animal food

Worth watching

Hydrolysed turkey and chicken liver, plus chicken fat and salmon oil. A dog kept off poultry or fish is not on a clean run

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

The details

Dog fit

Fed on a vet's advice. The bag puts a dog of 10 to 25kg at 170 to 330 grams a day, but on a food chosen for a clinical reason the amount is usually set at the practice.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Egg

What's in it

Yellow peas22%First on the list; plant starch makes up the body.
Potatoes20%
Eggs14%The only whole animal food named, carrying the protein.
Dried apple pulp14%
Buckwheat9.8%
Chicken fat8%
Hydrolysed turkey protein, hydrolysed chicken liver7%, 2%Cut into fragments the immune system is less apt to react to; still turkey and chicken.
Salmon oil, pea protein2%Fish as an oil, not a meat.
Dried algae, milk thistle seeds0.5%, 0.2%Milk thistle is the botanical singled out for this part of the range.
MOS, beta-glucans, FOS, yucca, sea buckthorn, inactivated Lactobacillus helveticus0.022% down to 0.015%

Calcium sits at 0.78% of dry matter; ask your vet whether that suits a puppy on this diet.

Named ingredients

Yellow Peas (22 %), Potatoes (20 %), Eggs (14 %), Dried Apple Pulp (14 %), Buckwheat (9.8 %), Chicken Fat (8 %), Hydrolysed Turkey Protein (7 %), Salmon Oil (2 %), Hydrolysed Chicken Liver (2 %), Pea Protein, Dried Algae (Ascophyllum nodosum, 0.5 %), Milk Thistle Seeds (0.2 %), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.022 %), β-glucans (0.02 %), Fructo-oligosaccharides (0.02 %), Mojave Yucca (0.02 %), Dried Sea Buckthorn (0.015 %) Lactobacillus helveticus HA-122 inactivated (15x10⁹ cells/kg).

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

369 kcal/100g

Protein

17%

Fat

15%

Fibre

4.7%

Ash

3.4%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

18.9%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

5.2%

Ash

3.8%

Carbs

55.4%

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

23%

Carbs

52.4%

Veg

14.3%

Oils

10%

Other

0.3%

Pricing & size