Riverwood

Riverwood Mono Protein Wet Food: Horse review

Name: Riverwood Mono Protein Wet Food: Horse
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

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

Horse: meat, heart, liver, lung70%Organ meat named on the label, where much of the vitamin content lives.
Broth28.5%
Minerals1%
Sunflower oil0.5%The only added fat, pressed from seed.

Vitamin D3, zinc, manganese, iodine and copper, dosed per kilo.

The energy figure is our estimate, so portions may want adjusting by eye.

Named ingredients

70% horse consisting of meat, heart, liver and lung, 28.5% broth, 1% minerals, 0.5% sunflower oil.

Against the range

Animal: Horse, organs named; Most tins give the animal only
Fat, dry matter: 21.3%; The leanest in the range
Protein, dry matter: 49.6%; Among the higher figures

A second unusual animal for a dog that has been through the everyday ones.

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

97 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11.4%

Fat

4.9%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

1.9%

Moisture

77%

Dry weight

Protein

49.6%

Fat

21.3%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

19.1%

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