Ruff's Recipes Dry Food: Hearty Game Stew review

1. Hearty Game Stew 65.2
2. Homely Fish Pie 60.1
3. Cosy Chicken Casserole 54.3
4. Rustic Lamb Hotpot 52.8

All four Good. Typical dry food: Good.

Fresh meat that cooks down and starch a little above the norm hold all four where they are; the itemised label and printed joint blend stop them slipping.

• Freshly prepared duck, venison gravy, pork liver36% (30%, 4%, 2%)Three animals, duck leading.
• Dried sweet potato, dried whole peas
• Potato protein
• Poultry oilNo bird named.
• Alfalfa, minerals3% (alfalfa)
• Flaxseed1%Lifted here.
• Dried carrot, parsnip, chicory root extract, mushroom0.3%, 0.2%
• Herbs and botanicals, seaweed down to valerian root0.2%Each printed to the third decimal place; nothing at that level changes how a dog feels.
• Joint support blend: glucosamine, MSM, chondroitin0.1%Broken open at 0.034%, 0.034% and 0.024%.
• Dried apple, dried blueberry

Trace minerals chelated with protein hydrolysates, each with a figure, selenium from selenised yeast, and taurine at 1000mg with methionine at 2000mg.

Meat

Duck, venison, pork 36%

Chicken, lamb or fish on the others.

Fat, dry matter

13%

The richest of the four.

Extras

Dried mushroom, 1% flaxseed

Not on the others.

Suits a dog that never quite runs out of energy, and it leads the four on our scoring.

Each recipe opens with a freshly prepared named meat at 30%, topped up with a gravy and an organ to reach the headline. No dried meat meal follows, so protein settles between 23.9% and 26.1% of dry matter. Dried sweet potato and whole peas bind all four with no grain, potato protein sits just behind, and a long itemised tail runs down to valerian root. Three recipes use poultry oil; the fish uses rapeseed.

Price per kilo

£5.00 (RRP)

Pack

2kg/kg), 12kg/kg)

A 15kg dog eats

200 to 340 g a day, 270 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£1.35

Middle of the dry market, and a little more than the analysis on its own would justify.