Riverwood

Riverwood Adult Dry: Reindeer & Deer with Wild Boar review

Name: Riverwood Adult Dry: Reindeer & Deer with Wild Boar
Brand: Riverwood

71.3/100Excellent

DryAdult

Flavour

A grain-free range built on dehydrated game and fish, with reindeer, wild boar, herring and rabbit all on the same shelf. The reindeer and salmon sit in our Excellent band, the venison a step below in Good. Let your dog's best meat decide it.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog the everyday farmyard proteins have not agreed with
Older dogs and heavy movers: glucosamine sulphate at 220 mg/kg and chondroitin sulphate at 130 mg/kg are working amounts
Dogs kept off grain
Owners who want a percentage against every meat

Worth watching

Poultry fat with no bird named, in all three
A 2% hydrolysed protein that names no animal either
Peas three times over: whole, starch and protein

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

How this scores

How we score

71.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. If a bird is being kept out of the bowl altogether, the poultry fat is the line to check before ordering.

Food type

Dry

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Venison

The score, in context

Reindeer 71.3
Salmon 70.4
Venison 68.0

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Very little separates the three, and the poultry fat that never names its bird is what holds the range back.

What's in it

Reindeer dehydrated26%Water already gone, so close to what the dog eats
Dehydrated venison15%
Yellow peas, yellow pea starch15%, 14%The binding
Poultry fat8%A good fat, but no bird named
Dried apple pulp7%
Wild boar dehydrated5%
Pea protein, hydrolysed protein5%, 2%The hydrolysed protein names no animal
Spinach, evening primrose oil, carrots1% down to 0.5%Evening primrose for gamma linolenic acid
Glucosamine sulphate, chondroitin sulphate, MOS, FOS220 down to 100 mg/kgJoint and gut support at working amounts
Yucca, marigold, nettle, spirulina, turmeric, citrus pulp, cranberries, chamomile, cinnamon90 down to 25 mg/kgSeasoning

Vitamins A, D3 and E with choline, and zinc, iron, manganese, iodine, copper and selenium dosed.

Named ingredients

Reindeer dehydrated (26%), dehydrated venison (15%), yellow peas (15%), yellow pea starch (14%), poultry fat (preserved with tocopherols, 8%), dried apple pulp (7%), wild boar dehydrated (5%), pea protein (5%), hydrolysed protein (2%), spinach (1%), evening primrose oil (0.5%), carrots (0.5%), glucosamine sulphate (220 mg/kg), mannan -oligosaccharides (150 mg/kg), chondroitin sulphate (130 mg/kg), fructo-oligosaccharides (100 mg/kg), Yucca schidigera (90 mg/kg), marigold (80 mg/kg), nettle (80 mg/kg ), spirulina (35 mg/kg), turmeric (30 mg/kg), citrus pulp (30 mg/kg), cranberries (30 mg/kg), chamomile (25 mg/kg), cinnamon (25 mg/kg).

Against the range

Meat: Reindeer, venison, wild boar; Fish in the Salmon; venison, lamb and rabbit in the Venison
Protein: 37% declared; 32% and 28%
Carbohydrate: 27.8%; 36.4% to 37.2%
Energy: 384 kcal per 100g; 370 to 378

The most unusual line-up of the three and the meatiest analysis.

Three grain-free recipes, each opening with a dehydrated lead meat at 26%, so the share on the label is close to the share in the bowl. Yellow peas, yellow pea starch and pea protein do the binding. Every label carries the same supplement tail with a milligram figure against each entry, and the same unnamed poultry fat at 8% to 9% and a 2% hydrolysed protein that names no animal.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

384 kcal/100g

Protein

37%

Fat

17%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

41.1%

Fat

18.9%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

8.9%

Carbs

27.8%

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

20%

Carbs

34%

Veg

8.8%

Oils

3.6%

Other

33.6%

Pricing & size