Ruff's Recipes Dry Food: Homely Fish Pie 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 salmon, prawn, salmon stock40% (30%, 6%, 4%)The largest named meat figure, and all of it marine.
• Dried sweet potato, dried whole peas
• Alfalfa4%
• Rapeseed oilIn place of poultry oil.
• Potato protein, minerals
• Dried broccoliStands in for the carrot and parsnip.
• Flaxseed, chicory root extract0.5%, 0.3%
• 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 and taurine at 1,000mg; no vitamin D3, iodine or selenium appears on this panel.

Prawn is on the list, alongside the salmon.

Meat

Salmon and prawn 40%

36% to 37% with a bird on the others.

Added fat

Rapeseed oil

Poultry oil on the other three.

Protein, dry matter

26.1%

23.9% to 25% on the others.

The easy pick when birds are off the menu.

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 355 g a day, 280 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£1.40

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