Rocco World Tour review

Four of the five World Tour recipes print their ingredients in full and those four carry a score. The Jamaica recipe does not publish a list we can read, so it goes without a score. Guesswork is no basis for one. That is the only reason this range does not read as a single set.

Where the labels can be read, they read well. Beef is declared at 50% and broken into heart, meat, liver, lung and tripe, with a second named animal at 15% behind it. The broth is printed at between 27.8% and 29.6%, not hidden as water, and the carbohydrate estimate lands under the 15.8% typical of adult wet food on every one of them. That is a lot of label for a recipe of this construction to show.

Ingredients, as declared: 50% Beef, 15% Wild Boar, 3% Spatzle Noodles, 3% Lingonberries, Minerals, 0.2% Linseed Oil.

The construction barely moves wherever the label says you have travelled to. Half the recipe is beef, declared at 50%, and on three of the labels it is broken into heart, meat, liver, lung and tripe so you can see which parts you are buying. Liver and tripe at that kind of share are a genuine strength rather than a filler, liver especially, which is about as nutrient dense as animal food gets.

A second animal comes in at 15% and gives each recipe its accent: lamb for Greece, chicken for India, salmon for Spain, wild boar on the original. Then the broth, printed at between 27.8% and 29.6% on the labels that declare it, which is the honest way to handle the water in a wet food.

The plant side is deliberately slight and changes with the destination, running at 3% or 4% an entry. That is potatoes and a whisper of rosemary in Greece, rice and peas in Spain, lentils and mango in India, spatzle noodles and lingonberries on the original. Only two of those are grain, the rice and the noodles, which is why the rest of the range reads grain free.

Linseed oil closes each list at 0.2%. It is a small entry doing a real job, carrying the plant form of omega 3. A marine oil would do more, but this is a good deal better than nothing.

Added vitamins and minerals are printed with figures on every label, though the panels do not quite line up with one another. Vitamin D3 at 200 IU appears on four of the five and is missing from the Spain panel, biotin appears on four, and vitamin A and selenium turn up only on the Jamaica label. It is worth knowing that the Jamaica recipe gives you an analysis and an additive panel but never the recipe itself, and that it is also the one declaring cassia gum to firm the texture.

The original stop on the tour. Wild boar appears nowhere else in the range, declared here at 15% behind beef at 50%. Spatzle noodles and lingonberries at 3% each give it a central European accent, and the noodles make this the one label here with pasta on it. Fat converts to 34.0% of dry matter.

£2.76 a kilo across the range, in a single 800g size sold in packs of 6 and 24.

As a guide, put a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition on about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). Feeding then works out at between £1.84 and £2.13 a day depending on the recipe. That comes to roughly 667 to 771 grams a day.