Rocco

Rocco Junior: Poultry, Chicken Hearts & Rice review

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Flavour

Rocco's wet range for growing dogs, four meaty recipes with calcium declared on every one. That figure sits inside the range growth needs, and on a junior food it matters most. Protein runs to roughly half the dry matter throughout. We have not scored it, as there is no full ingredient list to assess.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies large and small, calcium printed and in range
A puppy and an adult fed together, on the chicken hearts or turkey recipe
Dogs that eat best when meat leads
Owners who like to vary the menu across poultry, beef, game and turkey

Worth watching

No full ingredient list to check against a strict exclusion diet
Rice named in three of the four
Two recipes are listed for puppies only

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, with the chicken hearts and turkey recipes also covering adults. Portions move quickly with age, so feed to the growth chart and let the waistline settle it.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

We have not put a score on the Rocco Junior range, and the reason is a straightforward one. A fair score needs a label that declares enough to assess, and this range's labelling stops at the flavour names, the analysis and the additives, without a full ingredient list. Rather than mark the food down for what it leaves unsaid, we leave it unscored and let the declared numbers speak for themselves. They are all set out on this page, and they are worth reading.

What's in it

PoultryNamed in the flavour. Rocco publishes no full ingredient list for this range.
Chicken heartsHonest working muscle, among the more nourishing cuts.
RiceA small supporting role.

Vitamin D3, vitamin E, zinc, manganese, iodine, copper and biotin, every line dosed per kilo. A short panel, which a meat-led wet food can get by on.

Calcium declared at 1.3% of dry matter, inside the range growing dogs need, larger breeds included.

Against the range

Listed for: Puppies and adults; Shared with the turkey; the other two are puppy only.
Energy: 90 kcal per 100g; Gentlest of the four; Poultry with Beef reaches 110.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.3%; Highest in the range; the others sit at 1.18% to 1.19%.

The gentlest of the four, and one a puppy can stay on into adulthood.

Four meaty puppy recipes, two of them also listed for adults. Rocco declares flavour names, an analysis and a dosed additive panel, with no full ingredient list. Hearts feature in two recipes and rice is named in three.

Protein converts to between 48.2% and 52.0% of dry matter and estimated carbohydrate to between 6.5% and 12.7%, figures that come from animal ingredients doing the work. Calcium is declared on every recipe at 1.18% to 1.3% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis