Rosie's Farm Traditional Wet: Adult Seaside Feast with Fish & Chicken review

Five of the seven recipes reach our Excellent band, and the country style beef leads the range in our Outstanding band with the slow cooked chicken and turkey beside it. Protein and processing reads Excellent almost throughout, and nutritional balance and transparency read Outstanding on every recipe. What separates them is a matter of degree, invisible with the recipe in your hand.

The wider picture is kind to this range. Our scoring treats adult wet kindly, and the typical recipe reaches our Excellent band. All seven here hold that already high line, and two of them stand a step above it in our Outstanding band.

Ingredients, as declared: 35% herring, 25.8% stock, 25% chicken (heart, chicken meat, liver, neck, gizzards), 3% potatoes, 3% carrots, 3% peas, 3% cranberries, 1% spinach, 1% minerals, 0.2% linseed oil

Sixty per cent named meat is the pattern across almost the whole range, and the cuts are printed in full. The beef and lamb recipes list heart, meat, liver, rumen and lung. The poultry ones list hearts, meat, liver, neck and gizzard. Liver at that share does real work in the bowl, not just flavouring it. Very little a dog eats is more nutrient dense, and it digests easily.

Stock is declared at 25.8% as its own line on every label. That is the honest way to handle the water in a wet recipe, since the alternative is to leave you working out how much of the tin is broth.

Then come the vegetables, at 3% or 1% an entry and changing with the recipe: potatoes, carrots, broccoli, apple, green beans, pumpkin, parsnips, cranberries, spinach and peas. Carbohydrate converts to between 12.5% and 20.5% of dry matter across the seven, against 15.8% for the typical adult wet food, so even where the potatoes appear this is not a starch heavy range.

Two recipes bring fish in properly, herring at 35% in the Seaside Feast with chicken at 25% behind it, and salmon at 10% in the Poacher's Pot. Everywhere else the only oil is linseed at 0.2%, dropping to 0.1% on the puppy recipe, which also carries powdered eggshell at 0.1% as its calcium source.

There is not much in the added panel, and what is there comes with a figure. Vitamin D3 at 200 IU, vitamin E at 20 IU, zinc at 25mg, manganese at 1.4mg and iodine at 0.75mg per kilo, with copper joining at 1mg or 1.5mg on four of the labels. With this much meat in the recipes, a lot of the micronutrition arrives in the food itself. On a range like this, a short panel is a strength.

Herring at 35% with chicken at 25% behind it, the only recipe in the range led by fish, with cranberries and spinach among the vegetables. Nutritional balance and transparency are both Outstanding here, and protein and processing reads Excellent. Its fat is the most moderate here at 23.0% of dry matter, and its added panel is the one that prints no vitamin D3.

£5.00 a kilo on the Shepherd's Pie, the Seaside Feast and the puppy recipe, and £5.20 on the other four, in 400g and 800g sizes sold in packs of 6 and 24.

As a guide, feeding works out at between £3.78 and £4.16 a day for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, depending on the recipe. That assumes about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate), or roughly 757 to 808 grams a day. No day rate is shown for the puppy recipe, which is fed against expected adult weight rather than against a maintenance estimate.