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Run Premium Cold Pressed: Chicken & Sweet Potato review

Name: Run Premium Cold Pressed: Chicken & Sweet Potato
Brand: Run

70.6/100Excellent

Cold pressedAdult

Flavour

Three cold pressed recipes, pressed at low temperature and never extruded, so the pellet crumbles in liquid and does not swell. One is chicken, one sea fish and one a puppy blend of both. The puppy and chicken recipes sit in our Excellent band, the sea fish one step down in Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Fast eaters, since the pellets break up in liquid without swelling
Joint watchers: glucosamine and chondroitin each carry a stated dose
Cereal-free feeding, with sweet potato, tapioca and pea supplying the carbohydrate
A dog kept off poultry and red meat. The sea fish label has fish only
A puppy and an adult fed from the same shelf

Worth watching

Plant ingredients take a large share of every pellet, the trade a pressed food makes to hold its shape
Sea fish is as far as the label goes, with no species named
Glucosamine is usually made from shellfish, if shellfish is what you keep out

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

How this scores

How we score

70.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Adult recipes for every size, plus a puppy recipe. It is fed like a dry food from the bag; if your dog needs one particular fish, ask Run which sea fish is used.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Puppy - Sea Fish 71.2
Chicken 70.6
Mixed Sea Fish 65.4

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical dry food: Good.

The range meets the cold pressed norm and mostly clears it; the plant share of each pellet is what stops it climbing further.

What's in it

Dried ground chicken27%Part of 38% chicken ingredients, itemised in full.
Chicken fat, chicken protein peptides, chicken liver7%, 3%, 1%
Sweet potato25%The biggest plant entry.
TapiocaAlmost nothing but starch; there to hold the shape.
Yellow pea, beet pulp, pea fibre, seaweedFibre and a little more besides.
Glucosamine, chondroitin400, 300 mg/kgDosed in print. Glucosamine usually comes from shellfish shells.
DL methionine, carnitine
Yeast MOS, yucca, chicory root extractThe prebiotic tail.
Rosemary extract, vitamin ENatural preserving system.

Line-by-line vitamins and minerals, with selenium from sodium selenite at 0.1 mg/kg and zinc at 100 mg/kg.

Named ingredients

Chicken Ingredients 38% (Dried Ground Chicken 27%, Chicken Fat 7%, Chicken Protein Peptides 3%, Chicken Liver 1%), Sweet Potato 25%, Tapioca, Yellow Pea, Beet Pulp, Pea Fibre, Seaweed, Glucosamine (400 mg/kg), Chondroitin (300 mg/kg), Amino Acids (DL Methionine), Carnitine, Yeasts and parts thereof (including Mannan-oligosaccharides; Prebiotic MOS), Yucca Shidigera, Chicory Root Extract (as a source of Prebiotic Fructo-oligosaccharides and Inulin), Rosemary Extract, Natural Antioxidants (mix of Vitamin E and Rosemary Extracts)

Against the range

Animals on the label: Chicken only; Sea fish in the other two
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 44.7%; 42.4% to 44.1%
Ash, dry matter: 7.6%; 8.7% in the sea fish

No fish anywhere on the label, so a dog kept away from it is safe with this one.

Every label prints its meat share and then itemises it, down to what the fat, the peptides and the liver each contribute. Sweet potato, tapioca and pea carry the plant side, which is where the bulk of each pellet lives; carbohydrate converts to between 42.4% and 44.7% of dry matter.

Glucosamine at 400 mg/kg and chondroitin at 300 mg/kg are printed on all three, with a prebiotic tail and a rosemary and vitamin E preserving system. Vitamins and minerals are listed line by line with doses. What varies is the animal: chicken, sea fish, or both for the puppy.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

343.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

28%

Fat

12%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

13%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

44.7%

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

38%

Carbs

58.2%

Veg

1.6%

Other

2.2%

Pricing & size