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Ruff's Recipes Puppy Trays: Puppy's Chicken Hotpot review

Name: Ruff's Recipes Puppy Trays: Puppy's Chicken Hotpot
Brand: Ruff's Recipes

74.9/100Excellent

WetPuppy

Flavour

Single-serve 150g puppy trays that are mostly meat: a 61% meat block, protein at 52.6% of dry matter and very little else. Calcium is declared at 1.58% of dry matter, which is why the maker lists them from toy to giant without hedging. Both sit in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies heading for a large or giant frame, with calcium printed and in range
Pups that do well on a meat-heavy bowl
Starch kept to a whisper, with no cereal in either tray
Wet feeding through the day: moisture is 81.0%

Worth watching

Each tray mixes poultry with a red meat, so neither suits a single-protein plan
A bigger pup gets through several trays a day

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

How this scores

How we score

74.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size, toy to giant. The pack's guide spans 150 grams a day for the smallest pups to 2550 for the largest, so check your tray count first.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Puppy's Turkey Roast 76.3
Puppy's Chicken Hotpot 74.9

All two Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Both clear the typical puppy wet food, the turkey tray by a comfortable margin, because what is named on the label and what the analysis shows agree.

What's in it

Chicken47%
Lamb14%A red meat beside the poultry.
Sweet potato4%The only starch.
Dried spinach2%Equivalent to 4% fresh.
Minerals
LinseedPlant omega 3, less potent than a marine oil but a real contributor.
Dried herbs and botanicals: seaweed, nettle, chamomile, reishi mushroom, valerian root and others0.2%Seasoning with a wellbeing nod.
ChicoryA source of inulin for the gut's useful bacteria.
Dried blueberry

Zinc and manganese as amino acid chelates, copper and iodine as simple salts. No vitamins are printed, though minerals are on the list.

Named ingredients

Chicken & Lamb (61%) (Chicken 47%, Lamb (14%), Sweet Potato (4%), Dried Spinach (2%, equivalent to 4% Spinach), Minerals, Linseed, Dried Herbs & Botanicals (0.2%) (Seaweed, Nettle, Rosemary, Bay, Dill, Mint, Oregano, Thyme, Chamomile, Turmeric, Reishi Mushroom, Valerian Root), Chicory (a source of Inulin), Dried Blueberry.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 47%, lamb 14%; Turkey, duck and pork on the other.
Vegetables: Sweet potato, spinach; Potato and broccoli on the other.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 2.6%; Typical puppy wet food runs at 13.6%.

Almost nothing here does filler duty, and it is a good first tray for a pup new to wet food.

Both trays open with a 61% meat block broken out animal by animal, then one vegetable pairing at 4% each, linseed, a herb blend at 0.2%, chicory and dried blueberry. There is no cereal on either list.

The analysis is shared: protein 52.6% of dry matter, fat 31.6%, moisture 81.0% and calcium 1.58% of dry matter, inside the range every size of puppy can be reared on. The meats and the vegetables are what change.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

93 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

2.2%

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

52.6%

Fat

31.6%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

11.6%

Carbs

2.6%

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

76.6%

Added water

23.4%

Pricing & size