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Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Cold Pressed: Beef & Reef review

Name: Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Cold Pressed: Beef & Reef
Brand: Southend Dog Training

69.1/100Good

Cold pressedAdult

Flavour

A six-recipe cold-pressed range, grain free throughout, with the pork, beef and trout and salmon in our Excellent band and the other three in Good. The labels vary more than the packaging: some quote a headline meat figure that does not match the itemised entries beneath it. Venison, duck, pork and trout all lead a recipe here.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept off grain, as not one recipe holds a cereal
Owners after an unusual meat
Adults of any size, on one feeding chart
Owners who feed by eye and correct. The chart gives a range at each weight
Joints that need a hand, with glucosamine and chondroitin in all six

Worth watching

Adults only, so not for a puppy in the house
No vitamin and mineral panel, so no printed doses to check
Green lipped mussel on most labels, and chicken in the pork
Trust the itemised percentages over the summary meat line

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

How this scores

How we score

69.1/100Good

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The chart asks 150 to 375 grams a day for a 15kg adult, so place your dog within it by condition.

Food type

Cold pressed

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Pork 73.1
Beef 71.4
Trout 70.7
Beef 69.1
Chicken 68.0
Venison 65.9

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

None of the six falls short of its category and the strongest clear it; transparency is what separates them, more than the analysis.

What's in it

Ground white fish16%White fish with no species named.
Ground beef, hydrolysed beeftotal beef 19%
Sweet potato, potato, tapiocaTapioca is starch and very little besides.
Linseed oil
Spirulina, seaweed, dried kale
Chicory fibre, dried apples
Green lipped mussel, mannan-oligosaccharides, glucosamine, chondroitin sulphateShellfish in the bag.

Named ingredients

A carefully balanced mix of meat, fish, and natural ingredients: Ground White Fish (16%), Ground Beef, Hydrolysed Beef (Total Beef 19%), Sweet Potato, Potato, Tapioca, Linseed Oil, Spirulina, Chicory Fibre, Seaweed, Dried Apples, Dried Kale, Green Lipped Mussel, Mannan-Oligosaccharides, Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulphate

Against the range

Animals: White fish 16%, beef 19%; The only recipe mixing fish and red meat.
Starch: Adds tapioca; Most others use sweet potato and potato alone.
Calcium, dry matter: 1.52%; 1.41% on most; the venison is 2.17%.

A good middle ground for a dog that likes red meat and could do with more fish.

All six are cold pressed, grain free and listed for adults, with a named animal at the front of every list. Sweet potato and potato carry five of them; the pork turns to peas and tapioca. Every recipe closes with glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate and mannan oligosaccharides, and most add green lipped mussel at 1% with spirulina, kale and seaweed. Carbohydrate runs from 42.3% to 47.2% of dry matter. No vitamin and mineral panel is published for any of them.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

339.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

26%

Fat

13%

Fibre

Ash

10.5%

Moisture

Dry weight

Protein

28.3%

Fat

14.1%

Fibre

3.3%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

42.9%

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

86.6%

Carbs

11.1%

Veg

1.5%

Oils

0.7%

Other

0.1%

Pricing & size