Rocco

Rocco Classic: Beef with Poultry Hearts review

WetAdult

Flavour

Eleven tinned beef recipes, each with a different partner from duck to reindeer to green tripe. The analysis reads rich and meaty, but none of the labels prints an ingredient list. With no recipe to read behind the flavour name, we have not scored the range.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that like a different tin each evening, all on one beef base
Beef-tolerant dogs with an adventurous streak: reindeer, wild boar, duck and green tripe all appear
Dogs that need feeding up. Fat runs from 26.4% to 38.3% of dry matter
Feeding by the label, as every tin prints a guide by bodyweight
Multi-dog homes, where portions work out much the same across flavours

Worth watching

No ingredient list on any tin, so avoiding an animal means trusting the flavour name
High fat throughout, highest on the wild boar, a lot for a dog carrying extra weight
Calcium printed on two labels only

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs. Fed alone a 15kg adult takes between 545 and 830 grams a day depending on the tin, so check how many tins that is before choosing a pack.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

There is no score on this page, and the reason is straightforward. Our reading starts with the ingredient list, and none of these eleven tins publishes one, so there is nothing to weigh on the ingredient side beyond a flavour name and a partner animal. Marking a range on a label this quiet would be a comment on the printing, not on the food. We have left the score off and set out what the tins do declare instead. That much reads well for a wet food: protein between 42.0% and 47.0% of dry matter, fat between 26.4% and 38.3%, and a carbohydrate estimate as low as 1.7% on the wild boar tin. That is the pattern you get from a recipe built on animal parts rather than on cereal.

What's in it

Vitamins D3 and E, zinc, manganese and biotin, the same short panel on every tin, with no copper or iodine.

No ingredient list is published for this tin, so the flavour name is the only guide to what is in it.

The partner animal's species is not stated on the label.

Against the range

Partner animal: Poultry hearts, bird unstated; Ten other partners, from duck to reindeer.
Fat, dry matter: 37.5%; Near the top of the range.
Energy: 125 kcal per 100g; 118 to 131 across the range.

Muscle offal for a keen eater, though the bird goes unnamed.

No tin in the range publishes an ingredient list, so everything here comes from the analysis and the added panel. Beef is in every flavour, with a partner that changes from tin to tin.

The analysis reads meaty: protein between 42.0% and 47.0% of dry matter, fat between 26.4% and 38.3%, and a carbohydrate estimate from 1.7% to 18.8%. The added panel is the same on every tin. Only Pure Beef and Beef with Reindeer print a calcium figure.

Nutritional analysis