Rockster

Rockster: Sound Of Game review

Name: Rockster: Sound Of Game
Brand: Rockster

74.5/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Rockster reads more like a butcher's order than a recipe, and the eight recipes split evenly between our Excellent and Outstanding bands. Cuts are itemised down to lung and tongue, and the strongest labels print a percentage beside each one. Behind the meat sits a small garden of quinoa, pumpkin, berries and roots.

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Our view

Likely to suit

An unusual animal: rabbit, venison and duck each head a recipe
Organs itemised, with muscle, lung, liver and tongue printed by weight on several labels
Households buying organic, declared on every label
Small dogs and light eaters, with a 195 g can alongside the 340 g and 400 g sizes
A small plant side, kept to low single figures on most labels
Joint support in the venison recipe, with green lipped mussels at 1%

Worth watching

Both Fisherman's Dream recipes add calamari and mussels to the salmon
Salmon oil in the beef, duck and venison recipes, so those three are not fish free
The two Boeuf Du Cap sizes share a list but print very different analysis panels
Chickenrella and Duck A La Royale leave ash off the analysis

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

How this scores

How we score

74.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Every recipe is listed for adults of every size, and A Fisherman's Dream and Duck A La Royale for puppies and seniors too. Match the can size to your dog before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Venison

The score, in context

Duck A La Royale 83.6
A Fisherman's Dream 80.8
Boeuf Du Cap (400g can) 80.4
Heaven 80.0
A Fisherman's Dream (400g can) 76.0
Sound Of Game 74.5
Chickenrella 73.3
Boeuf Du Cap 70.3

Eight recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Half the range climbs into Outstanding and the rest hold Excellent, so the animal is the thing to choose on.

What's in it

Wild Venison Muscle Meat34.4%
Wild Venison Lung25.8%Organs itemised, not pooled.
Wild Venison Liver, Tongue12.9% each
Organic Sweet Potato, Organic Apricot4%, 3.5%
Organic Lingonberries, Organic Spinach2% each
Salmon Oil1%Marine omega 3, so not fish free.
Green Lipped Mussels1%The joint-friendly extra, and a second sea animal.
Organic Inulin, minerals and vitamins0.5%Inulin at 0.5%; the rest listed inline.

Vitamins and minerals are folded into the ingredient list, with selenium from yeast, and no doses printed.

Named ingredients

(Organic content: 12%) 34.4% Wild Venison Muscle Meat, 25.8% Wild Venison Lung, 12.9% Wild Venison Liver, 12.9% Wild Venison Tongue, 4% Organic Sweet Potato, 3.5% Organic Apricot, 2% Organic Lingonberries, 2% Organic Spinach, 1% Salmon Oil, 1% Green Lipped Mussels, 0.5% Organic Inulin, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Chloride, Magnesium Oxide, Choline Chloride, Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5), Zinc Sulfate, Niacin (Vitamin B3), Vitamin E Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Vitamin B6 Supplement, Manganese Oxide, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid (Vitamin B9), Selenium Yeast, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Biotin (Vitamin B7), Vitamin D3 Supplement

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 16.7%; The most moderate in the range.
Joint support: Green lipped mussels, 1%; Only this recipe.
Meat: Four venison cuts; The beef and rabbit also print their cuts.

The leanest bowl here, with a joint extra for an older dog.

Eight recipes across salmon, beef, chicken, duck, rabbit and venison, with organic ingredients declared on every label. Where percentages are printed, the named animal runs from 82% to 86%, and organs are itemised by name and weight: liver, lung, tongue, heart and gizzard.

The plant side is small and chosen, with quinoa doing most of the work on the recipes that carry it, and fibre runs high as a result. Vitamins and minerals are folded into the ingredient list on some labels and printed as a separate panel on others, so the doses do not compare line for line.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

118.4 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

2.3%

Moisture

76%

Dry weight

Protein

41.7%

Fat

16.7%

Fibre

12.5%

Ash

9.6%

Carbs

19.5%

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

87%

Carbs

Veg

5.5%

Oils

Other

2.5%

Pricing & size