Rocco

Rocco Sensitive: Duck with Pasta review

Name: Rocco Rocco Sensitive: Duck with Pasta
Brand: Rocco

WetAdult

Flavour

Rocco Sensitive is built for dogs whose digestion is easily upset. There are five, each headed by its own animal: beef, chicken, duck, lamb and turkey. The analysis panels read meat led throughout, protein converting to between 42.4% and 50.5% of dry matter, and the starch estimate stays modest right across the five. What none of these labels gives us is an ingredient list, so the range goes without a score rather than being guessed at.

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Our view

Likely to suit

If your dog reacts to most things in a bowl, this is the range built for exactly that.

Dogs with easily upset digestion, the group every recipe here is built around
Rotation feeders, since beef, chicken, duck, lamb and turkey all share one house style
Dogs that need their dinner to be mostly meat, since protein converts to between 42.4% and 50.5% of dry matter
Older dogs, because two of the five, the chicken and the lamb, carry a senior listing
A dog that never drinks enough, since moisture is declared at 79.0% and 80.0% across the five
Households feeding a big appetite, since an 800g size sits alongside the 400g

Worth watching

Before you order, there is one real gap in what these labels tell you.

None of the five recipes publishes an ingredient list, which leaves the flavour name doing all the describing
Without a list, none of these recipes can anchor an elimination diet, however gentle it is meant to be
Calories are declared only on the Chicken & Potato recipe, at 118 kcal per 100g, and the other four are our own estimates
If you steer clear of cereals, note that two names point to grain, Duck with Pasta and Lamb & Rice

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

The Details

Dog fit

If your dog reacts to most things in a bowl, this is the range built for exactly that. Before you order, there is one real gap in what these labels tell you.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

None of these five recipes carries a score, and the reason is straightforward: not one of them publishes an ingredient list we can read. Our reading of a food leans heavily on what the label is willing to declare, and an analysis panel on its own is not enough to judge a recipe fairly. So we leave the verdict off.

What the panels do show is encouraging on its own terms. Protein converts to between 42.4% and 50.5% of dry matter across the range, and fat runs from 25.0% to 31.0%. The carbohydrate estimate stops between 8.0% and 13.2%, where the typical adult wet food runs at 15.8%. That is the shape of a meat forward recipe. It is simply not the same thing as being able to see the meat named.

Ingredient notes

There is no ingredient list to walk you through here, and that is better said plainly than dressed up. The flavour names give you the headline animal, beef, chicken, duck, lamb or turkey, and two of them name a starch as well. The order of the list and the size of each entry stay off the page.

The analysis is the substance of what we hold, and it is consistent. Moisture is declared at 79.0% or 80.0%, which is what a wet food is and no criticism of it. Once that water is set aside, the protein reading is high on every one of the five. Fat sits between 25.0% and 31.0% of dry matter, so these are not lean recipes, and the carbohydrate estimate stays below the 15.8% typical of adult wet food on all five.

The added panel is identical across the range, and no entry on it goes without a figure. Vitamin D3 comes in at 140 IU and vitamin E at 30 IU, then zinc at 20mg, copper at 2.3mg, manganese at 2mg and iodine at 0.5mg per kilo. Plenty of wet labels never print those figures at all. A short panel is easier to trust, though, when you can also read what the food itself is made of.

None of this makes Rocco Sensitive a range to steer around. It is sold for delicate stomachs, the analysis behind it is sound, and a lot of dogs eat it happily. You are simply being asked to trust the maker on the recipe, and if your dog is already settled on one of these, that trust has been tested where it counts.

How this variety differs

Duck with pasta. Duck is the least common animal on this shelf, which makes it a sensible change of scene when the usual poultry has run its course. Fat converts to 31.0% of dry matter, joint richest in the range, and moisture is declared at 79.0%.

Price and value

£2.97 a kilo, the same figure on all five recipes, in 400g and 800g sizes sold in packs of 6 and 24.

As a guide, assume about 840 kcal a day for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). Feeding then works out at between £2.11 and £2.84 a day depending on the recipe. That corresponds to roughly 712 to 958 grams a day.

Nutritional analysis