Rocco

Rocco Classic: Beef with Wild Boar review

Name: Rocco Rocco Classic: Beef with Wild Boar
Brand: Rocco

WetAdult

Flavour

Rocco Classic is the brand's big tinned beef range, eleven flavours deep, with beef in every one and a partner that changes from duck to reindeer to green tripe. The analysis on these tins reads rich and meaty, but not one of the labels sets out an ingredient list, so there is no recipe to read behind the flavour name. That is why this range carries no score from us.

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Our view

Likely to suit

If your dog is happiest eating something different each evening, few ranges give you this much to play with.

Dogs that thrive on variety, with eleven flavours built around one beef base
Beef-tolerant dogs with an adventurous streak, since reindeer, wild boar, duck and green tripe all appear as partners
Dogs that need feeding up, as fat runs between 26.4% and 38.3% of dry matter across the range
Owners who feed by the label, because every tin prints a guide by bodyweight
Households with several dogs, since every flavour is built the same way and portions work out much the same

Worth watching

What you need to know here is how much the labelling leaves out.

Not one of the eleven tins prints an ingredient list, and when you are avoiding an animal the flavour name is your only guide
Fat runs high across the range and highest on the wild boar tin at 38.3% of dry matter, which is a lot for a dog carrying extra weight
Calcium is printed on the Pure Beef and Beef with Reindeer labels only, so the rest leave that particular figure unsaid

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

The Details

Dog fit

If your dog is happiest eating something different each evening, few ranges give you this much to play with. What you need to know here is how much the labelling leaves out.

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.

Ingredient notes

There is no ingredient list to work through, so what follows comes from the analysis and the added panel, both of which the labels do print.

The analysis is the meaty sort. Protein lands between 42.0% and 47.0% of dry matter, with fat between 26.4% and 38.3%. That is rich for a wet food, and it points to animal ingredients. Carbohydrate backs that up, estimated at 1.7% of dry matter on the wild boar tin and rising to 18.8% on the green tripe and the lamb. Those estimates come from what is left after everything else is counted, not from measuring starch.

The added panel is the same on every tin: vitamin D3 at 200 IU, vitamin E at 20 IU, zinc at 25mg, manganese at 1.4mg and biotin at 300mcg, each printed per kilo. It is a short list with no copper or iodine in it, which is worth noticing in a food meant to be fed as the whole dinner.

Two labels go further than the rest. Pure Beef declares calcium at 0.92% of dry matter and Beef with Reindeer at 1.0%, both comfortable levels for an adult dog. The other nine say nothing about calcium at all.

The flavour names carry a lot of weight in a range this size. Green tripe and poultry hearts both point at offal, and reindeer, wild boar and duck at genuinely unusual animals, but without a list behind them a name is only a name. If you are choosing a partner animal for a reason, that is worth holding in mind.

How this variety differs

Wild boar alongside the beef, close kin to pork and rare enough to be new to most dogs. The richest tin in the range at 38.3% of dry matter as fat, and the one with almost nothing left over on the carbohydrate estimate, at 1.7%.

Price and value

£2.50 a kilo across every flavour, in 400g and 800g tins sold in packs of 6 and 24.

For a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, feeding works out at between £1.60 and £1.78 a day, or roughly 641 to 712 grams. That range rests on about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The labels run a little more generous than that, putting a 20kg dog on 685 to 935 grams a day on the Pure Beef tin.

Nutritional analysis