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Ruff's Recipes Adult Wet: Hearty Hog Roast review

Name: Ruff's Recipes Adult Wet: Hearty Hog Roast
Brand: Ruff's Recipes

76.5/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Three wet recipes in our Excellent band, each naming its meat and printing a figure beside it. Hearty Hog Roast is all pork; the other two pair a bird with a second animal. Vegetables, a named grain and a scattering of herbs fill in behind.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the animal named and counted
Dogs kept to a single animal. Hearty Hog Roast carries pork and no other meat
Rotation feeders, with three meat pairings to move between
Dogs that do better with meat leading, at 34.6% to 50.0% protein in dry matter
Dogs whose digestion likes a helping hand: chicory root for prebiotic FOS in every tin

Worth watching

As much chicken as turkey in Tasty Turkey Hash, at 30.5% each
Barley, quinoa or spelt in every recipe
Calcium at 3.08% of dry matter in the hash against 1.2% in Hearty Hog Roast, for a mineral-watched dog

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

How this scores

How we score

76.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults from toy breeds to giants. Turkey Dinner comes in a 150g pack against 390g for the other two, so a bigger dog gets through more of them.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pork

The score, in context

Hearty Hog Roast 76.5
Tasty Turkey Hash 75.8
Turkey Dinner 73.1

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The three finish tightly grouped, with Turkey Dinner a whisker behind the two 390g recipes and no weak spot anywhere in the range.

What's in it

Freshly prepared pork61.1%The only animal on the label.
Peas5.2%
Barley2.6%The named grain.
Dried apple1.3%A little sweetness.
Quinoa, flaxseed0.6% eachFlaxseed for omega-3.
Minerals0.4%
Chicory root0.13%Prebiotic FOS.
Dried herbs and botanicals0.2%Seaweed at 0.05% down to valerian root at 0.005%. A garnish, not a working dose.
Dried blueberry

Vitamins A and D3 with zinc, iron, manganese, copper and selenium, all dosed per kilo.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Pork (61.1%), Peas (5.2%), Barley (2.6%), Dried Apple (1.3%), Quinoa (0.6%), Flaxseed (0.6%), Minerals (0.4%), Chicory Root (as a source of prebiotic FOS) (0.13%), Dried Herbs & Botanicals (0.2%) (Seaweed 0.05%, Nettle 0.02%, Rosemary 0.015%, Bay 0.015%, Dill 0.015%, Mint 0.015%, Oregano 0.015%, Thyme 0.015%, Chamomile 0.01%, Turmeric 0.01%, Reishi Mushroom 0.005%, Valerian Root 0.005%) Dried Blueberry.Dried Herbs & Botanicals (0.2%) (Seaweed, Nettle, Rosemary, Bay (0.015%), Dill, Mint, Oregano, Thyme, Chamomile, Turmeric, Reishi Mushroom, Valerian Root) Dried Blueberry.

Against the range

Meat: 61.1% pork; Two animals at about 30% each in the other two.
Fat, dry matter: 28.0%; 30.8% in the hash, 27.8% in Turkey Dinner.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.2%; 3.08% in the hash, 2.22% in Turkey Dinner.

The one to reach for when your dog is kept to a single meat.

Freshly prepared meat opens every list with its own percentage: about 60% of each tin is animal, from one or two named species. Peas, green beans or courgette take the vegetable slot, and barley, quinoa or spelt carry the grain, so nothing in the range is grain free.

Every recipe ends the same way: flaxseed or linseed, chicory root for prebiotic FOS, dried blueberry and a 0.2% herb and botanical blend at trace level. The added panels differ: the two 390g recipes share one, while Turkey Dinner names three minerals and no vitamins.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

106 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

28%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

14%

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

70.5%

Added water

16.7%

Carbs

9.7%

Veg

1.9%

Other

1.2%

Pricing & size