Riverwood

Riverwood Fish Sausage: Cod & Salmon review

Name: Riverwood Fish Sausage: Cod & Salmon
Brand: Riverwood

74.8/100Excellent

WetPuppyAdult

Flavour

A fish dinner in a sausage you slice, with cod leading every recipe at 44% and not a land animal on any label. All three land in our Excellent band. Pick by the partner fish: salmon for the richest slice, tuna for the leanest.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that refuse anything that used to have legs
Dogs kept off meat and poultry. Cod, salmon, trout and tuna are the only animals named
Owners who want the fish share printed: 44% cod and 26% partner fish on every sausage
Homes feeding several ages at once, as the range is listed for puppies, adults and seniors
Dogs that like a firmer texture, since a slice holds its shape where a spooned tin does not
A short label: ten entries from the cod down to the dill

Worth watching

Fish is the only animal content, so a dog with a diagnosed fish sensitivity has nothing here
Buckwheat twice plus peas lift the carbohydrate estimate above most wet recipes
Ash at 15.2% to 16.9% of dry matter, with no percentage on the minerals line
An 800 g sausage lasts a medium dog more than a day, so wrap it and keep it cold once cut

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

How this scores

How we score

74.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. Choose the fish by your dog's waistline: the tuna sausage carries far less fat than the salmon.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Cod 74.8
Cod 74.1
Cod 73.5

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Barely anything separates the three, so the choice is which fish your dog prefers; the buckwheat and pea base is what holds them back from going further.

What's in it

Cod44%Named to species, as is the partner fish.
Salmon26%The richest partner in the range.
Water13%Printed with its figure.
Peas, spinach4% eachFibre and micronutrients at this level, not bulk.
Peeled buckwheat, buckwheat flour3% eachThe starch. Buckwheat is a seed, not a cereal grain.
MineralsNo percentage, so the high ash cannot be split between added minerals and the fish.
Ground rosehips, dill0.5%, 0.3%

Vitamin E, zinc, manganese and iodine, printed with doses but no stated quantity of food they apply to.

Named ingredients

44% cod, 26% salmon, 13% water, 4% peas, 4% spinach, 3% peeled buckwheat, 3% buckwheat flour, minerals, 0.5% ground rosehips, 0.3% dill.

Against the range

Partner fish: Salmon, 26%; Trout or tuna on the other two.
Fat, dry matter: 22.4%; 16.6% with trout, 8.1% with tuna.
Energy: 125 kcal per 100g; Highest of the three; the tuna is 89.

The richest sausage of the three, and the smallest daily portion.

Every sausage is 44% cod with a second named fish at 26%, so 70% of each is fish named to species, and water follows at a printed 13%. No land animal appears on any of the three labels.

The base is the same throughout: peas and spinach at 4% each, buckwheat at 3% hulled and 3% as flour, then rosehip and dill. Only the partner fish changes, and with it the fat, which runs from 8.1% to 22.4% of dry matter. Ash reads high for a wet food on all three, and the minerals line carries no figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

124.8 kcal/100g

Protein

11.8%

Fat

6.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

4.4%

Moisture

71%

Dry weight

Protein

40.7%

Fat

22.4%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

15.2%

Carbs

20%

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

70%

Added water

13%

Carbs

10%

Veg

4.5%

Other

2.5%

Pricing & size