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Run Premium Cold Pressed: Puppy - Sea Fish & Chicken review

Name: Run Premium Cold Pressed: Puppy - Sea Fish & Chicken
Brand: Run

71.2/100Excellent

Cold pressedPuppy

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

71.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

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

Puppy

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 fish18%Part of 24% fish ingredients.
Salmon protein peptides, fish oil3% each
Dried ground chicken, chicken fat15%, 6%21% chicken, so more named meat than either adult recipe.
Sweet potato17%
Tapioca, yellow pea meal
Beet pulp fibre, 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.

Line-by-line vitamins and minerals, with sodium selenite at 0.1 mg/kg and vitamin D3 at 700 IU/kg.

Named ingredients

Fish Ingredients 24% (Dried Ground Sea Fish 18%, Salmon Protein Peptides 3%, Fish oil 3%), Chicken Ingredients 21% (Dried Ground Chicken 15%, Chicken Fat 6%), Sweet Potato 17%, Tapioca, Yellow Pea Meal, Beet Pulp Fibre, 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

Meat: Fish 24% and chicken 21%; 38% chicken or 30% fish in the adults
Fat, dry matter: 15.2%; 13% in both adults
Energy: 357 kcal per 100g; 341.8 to 343.5
Calcium, dry matter: 1.3%; 1.3% to 1.52%

The highest scorer here, with the extra fat and meat a growing dog uses.

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

357 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

29%

Fat

14%

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

31.5%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

7.6%

Carbs

42.4%

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

45%

Carbs

51.1%

Veg

1.6%

Other

2.3%

Pricing & size