Riverwood

Riverwood Adult Dry: Venison & Lamb with Rabbit review

Name: Riverwood Adult Dry: Venison & Lamb with Rabbit
Brand: Riverwood

68/100Good

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

68/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

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

Venison dehydrated26%
Lamb dehydrated20%
Yellow peas19%More whole peas than its siblings
Poultry fat9%No bird named
Yellow pea starch, dried apple pulp9%, 6%
Rabbit dehydrated4%
Pea protein, hydrolysed protein2% each
Spinach, evening primrose oil, carrots1% down to 0.5%
Glucosamine sulphate, chondroitin sulphate, MOS, FOS220 down to 100 mg/kg
Yucca, marigold, nettle, spirulina, turmeric, citrus pulp, cranberries, chamomile, cinnamon90 down to 25 mg/kg

The range's shared panel: vitamins A, D3 and E, choline and six trace minerals, each dosed.

Named ingredients

Venison dehydrated (26%), lamb dehydrated (20%), yellow peas (19%), poultry fat (preserved with tocopherols, 9%), yellow pea starch (9%), dried apple pulp (6%), rabbit dehydrated (4%), pea protein (2%), 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

Protein: 28% declared; 32% and 37%
Ash, dry matter: 10.7%; The highest, from the bone in dehydrated red meat
Pea starch: 9%; 12% and 14%

The gentlest protein of the three, for a dog that does well on red meat.

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

370 kcal/100g

Protein

28%

Fat

16%

Fibre

2.9%

Ash

9.6%

Moisture

10%

Dry weight

Protein

31.1%

Fat

17.8%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

10.7%

Carbs

37.2%

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

50%

Carbs

30%

Veg

7.8%

Oils

Other

8.2%

Pricing & size