Southend Dog Training

Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Cold Pressed: Pork review

Name: Southend Dog Training Southend Dog Cold Pressed: Pork
Brand: Southend Dog Training

73.1/100Excellent

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

73.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceAverage

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

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

Pork

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

Dried ground pork30%
Peas, sweet potato, tapiocaPeas and tapioca stand in for the usual potato.
Chicken oil7%So this is pork led, not pork only.
Beet pulp
Chicken liver digest5%For flavour.
Dried apple
L tryptophan, glucosamine, chondroitin, carnitine, taurinecarnitine 50 mg/kgThe longest list of extras in the range.
MOS, yucca schidigera, chicory, inuline, dandelion rootMOS 500 mg/kg
Marigold yellow, lutein, vit. E and rosemary, ginger, turmeric, thyme

Moisture is not declared, so the dry-matter figures assume 8%.

Named ingredients

Dried ground pork (30%), peas, sweet potato, tapioca, chicken oil (7%), beet pulp, chicken liver digest (5%), dried apple, L tryptophan, glucosamine, chondroitin, carnitine (50 mg/kg), taurine, MOS (500 mg/kg), yucca schidigera, chicory, inuline, dandelion root, marigold yellow, lutein, natural antioxidants (vit.E & rosemary), ginger, turmeric, thyme. 🐖 Dried Ground Pork (30%), 🍠 Sweet Potato & Tapioca - slow-release energy, 🐔 Chicken Oil (7%) & Liver Digest (5%) - added nutrients & palatability, 🌿 Apple, Chicory, Dandelion Root & Herbs - digestive support

Against the range

Starch: Peas, tapioca; The others lean on sweet potato and potato.
Other animals on the label: Chicken oil 7%, chicken liver digest 5%; No mussel here; most others carry it.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 47.2%; Highest; the beef is 42.3%.

The most elaborate label in the range and the top of it on our scoring.

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

343.5 kcal/100g

Protein

24%

Fat

11%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

11%

Dry weight

Protein

26.1%

Fat

12%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

12%

Carbs

47.2%

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

65%

Carbs

18.8%

Veg

0.9%

Oils

14%

Other

1.3%

Pricing & size