Riverwood

Riverwood Mono Protein Wet Food: Duck review

Name: Riverwood Mono Protein Wet Food: Duck
Brand: Riverwood

75.4/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

One named animal per tin and nothing else of note on the label, across eight animals from turkey and lamb to goat, horse and wild boar. Every tin earns our Excellent band. Few labels tell you as plainly which animal is in the tin.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion diets: one animal, no second meat, no unnamed fat, no fish oil
Owners hunting for a genuinely new animal, with goat, horse, venison and wild boar
Dogs that do better without starch
Reading a whole label in one breath
A house with one dog on a restricted list and another eating anything

Worth watching

Veal is young beef, so no escape route from a beef reaction
Vitamin A on the duck and venison only, and calcium on the duck alone
Estimated calories on the goat, horse and wild boar tins
A 400 g tin is about half a day for a 15kg dog, so larger dogs get through a pack quickly

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

How this scores

How we score

75.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs. Before an exclusion trial, check the animal against your dog's history, since veal counts as beef.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Veal 76.5
Lamb 76.2
Turkey 75.8
Venison 75.7
Duck 75.4
Goat 75.4
Horse 75.4
Wild Boar 74.8

All eight Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The gap between the strongest tin and the least is small, and the range clears a high wet-food mark on what it leaves out as much as what it puts in.

What's in it

Duck70%
Broth28.5%
Minerals1%
Sunflower oil0.5%The only added fat, pressed from seed.

Vitamin A on top of the usual D3, zinc, manganese, iodine and copper, one of only two tins to print it.

Named ingredients

70% duck, 28.5% broth, 1% minerals, 0.5% sunflower oil.

Against the range

Energy: 91.7 kcal per 100g; The lightest tin
Protein, dry matter: 52.5%; The highest in the range
Calcium: 1.3% of dry matter; Not printed on any other tin

The tin to start with if you want the mineral picture in print.

Every tin is four lines: 70% of one named animal, 28.5% broth or stock, minerals and 0.5% sunflower oil. There is no starch, no second meat, no unnamed fat and no fish oil anywhere in the range. The horse, lamb, turkey and veal labels name the parts that went in, organ meat included. What changes is the animal, the richness and the short added panel, with vitamin A on two tins and calcium printed on one.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

91.7 kcal/100g

Protein

10.5%

Fat

5.2%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

52.5%

Fat

26%

Fibre

Ash

12.5%

Carbs

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

28.5%

Oils

0.5%

Other

Pricing & size