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Run Premium Cold Pressed: Mixed Sea Fish review

Name: Run Premium Cold Pressed: Mixed Sea Fish
Brand: Run

65.4/100Good

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

65.4/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

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

Sea Fish

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 sea fish25%No species named. Part of 30% fish ingredients.
Salmon protein peptides, fish oil3%, 2%
Pea starch flour20%Structure more than nutrition.
Sweet potato, yellow pea, tapioca
Sunflower oilExtra fat, on this recipe only.
Beet pulp, pea fibre, seaweed
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.

Vitamins and minerals listed with doses, but no selenium source appears in the mineral list.

No selenium source printed in the mineral list, which looks like a gap in the panel.

Named ingredients

Fish Ingredients 30% (Dried Ground Sea Fish 25%, Salmon Protein Peptides 3%, Fish Oil 2%), Pea Starch Flour 20%, Sweet Potato, Yellow Pea, Tapioca, Sunflower Oil, Beet Pulp, Pea Fiber, 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: Fish only; Chicken in the other two
Pea starch flour: 20%; Not used in the others
Ash, dry matter: 8.7%, the highest; 7.6% in the others
Selenium: No source listed; Sodium selenite in the others

The obvious choice when land animals are off the menu.

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

341.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

28%

Fat

12%

Fibre

3.5%

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

30.4%

Fat

13%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

8.7%

Carbs

44.1%

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

30%

Carbs

65.2%

Veg

0.9%

Oils

2.6%

Other

1.3%

Pricing & size