Rocco

Rocco Senior: Poultry & Oat Flakes review

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

A senior wet range that splits down the middle: two recipes written out to the cut, two that publish an analysis and stop. All four keep starch low and protein generous, which is what a slowing dog wants. Lamb & Millet is one of the plainest wet labels you will read.

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Our view

Likely to suit

An older dog whose protein needs keeping up, at 40.8% to 52.0% of dry matter across the range
Low-starch feeding. Estimated carbohydrate runs 8.5% to 10.8% of dry matter against 15.8% for the typical adult wet food
Owners who like the recipe printed in full, as Lamb & Millet and Poultry & Oat Flakes do
Dogs avoiding gluten, on the millet recipe
A house with an older dog and a younger one, since every recipe is listed for adults too

Worth watching

No ingredient list on Beef with Potatoes or Chicken with Potatoes
Poultry & Oat Flakes names its bird only as poultry
No joint or mobility extras in the added ingredients
Fat on the beef reaches 36.0% of dry matter, a thought for an older dog carrying weight

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors. If your dog reacts to one particular bird or needs to avoid grain, stick to the lamb recipe or read the analysis-only tins with that gap in mind.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Poultry

The score, in context

We have held this range without a score, and the reason is that we cannot read all of it. Two of the four labels publish their recipes in full, and two publish nothing beyond the guaranteed analysis. Grading part of a range and leaving the rest blank would give a misleading picture of a set of foods clearly meant to sit together on the same shelf. So we have described all four and left the grading alone. Nothing here suggests a problem with the food. It is a question of what the maker chooses to print, and the two published recipes are short, meat led and easy to follow.

What's in it

Poultry: heart, meat, liver, gizzards, neck65%Poultry names a category, not a species. Any domestic bird fits.
Stock28.8%
Oats5%A little more fibre than millet.
Minerals1%
Safflower oil0.2%

Vitamin D3, vitamin E, biotin, zinc, manganese and iodine, each dosed, with nothing aimed at an ageing joint.

Contains oats, so not grain free.

Named ingredients

65% Poultry (Heart, Meat, Liver, Gizzards, Neck), 28.8% Stock, 5% Oats, 1% Minerals, 0.2% Safflower Oil.

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 24.0%; The leanest; beef reaches 36.0%.
Protein, dry matter: 52.0%; The highest in the range; lamb is 40.8%.
Energy: 88 kcal per 100g; Lowest of the four.

Suits an older dog that needs the protein without the richness.

Two of the four print a full recipe on one pattern: 65% named animal broken down to the cuts, 28.8% stock, a single grain at 5%, 1% minerals and 0.2% safflower oil. Lamb & Millet and Poultry & Oat Flakes differ only in the animal and the grain. Beef with Potatoes and Chicken with Potatoes publish the analysis and nothing underneath it.

The added vitamins and trace elements are identical on all four, each with a dose. Calcium runs from 1.0% to 1.2% of dry matter, fine for an adult or older dog. Protein converts to between 40.8% and 52.0% of dry matter and the estimated carbohydrate stays between 8.5% and 10.8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

88 kcal/100g

Protein

10.4%

Fat

4.8%

Fibre

0.6%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

52%

Fat

24%

Fibre

Ash

12.5%

Carbs

8.5%

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

65%

Added water

28.8%

Carbs

Oils

0.2%

Other

Pricing & size