Tuggs Pork Power review

Fresh food is the strongest company a recipe can keep on our scoring, and Pork Power keeps it comfortably, landing in our Outstanding band with protein and processing, nutritional balance and transparency all reading Outstanding. The typical fresh food is Outstanding too, and within that group this pouch comes out a shade ahead of the middle. On the strongest shelf we score, that is no small thing.

Ingredients, as declared: Pork 42.5% (Heart 20%; Trimming 15%; Liver 7.5%), Fresh Insect (20%), Sweet Potato (12%), Carrot (8.75%), Broccoli (8%), Quinoa (4%), Sunflower Oil (1.5%), Minerals (1%), Brewer's Yeast (1%), Salmon Oil (0.25%), Kelp Powder 0.5%, Chia Seeds 0.5%, Ingredient highlights Pork Trimming · Pork Liver · Pork Heart · Insects · Sweet Potato · Minerals · Carrots · Brewer's Yeast · Quinoa · Salmon Oil · Broccoli · Sunflower Oil · Chia Seeds · Kelp Powder

The pork is itemised rather than lumped together, with heart at 20%, trimming at 15% and liver at 7.5%. Liver this far up a list is a real asset, since it carries vitamin B12, vitamin A, copper and selenium at levels muscle meat cannot reach. Heart is lean working muscle with plenty of protein in it. Pork is also uncommon in British bowls. For a dog who has worked through the everyday meats, that is exactly the point.

Insect is the second protein here. It arrives fresh at 20% and it is there to do a job, not to dress up the packaging. Insect protein is well established in pet food now, and it is farmed with a fraction of the resources a mammal needs. Hardly any dog has a history with it, so a reaction to it is rare.

The plant side is a short one, and every entry on it is named. The main starch is sweet potato at 12%. Carrot at 8.75% brings soluble fibre and the antioxidants that travel with it, and broccoli follows at 8%. Quinoa at 4% is a pseudo-grain, the seed of a spinach relative rather than a grass, so it lifts protein and fibre while the label stays clear of cereals altogether.

Fresh food declares its analysis wet, so the figures look modest until the water comes out of them. With moisture at 70.7%, protein converts to 42.7% of dry matter and fat to 36.2%, while the carbohydrate estimate settles at 13.3%. That is a properly meat-led profile and a rich one, so a quieter dog is better fed towards the lower end of the guide than the top of it.

Small entries close the list off and each one has a job. Sunflower oil at 1.5% covers vitamin E and omega 6, salmon oil at 0.25% the long chain omega 3s, brewer's yeast at 1% the B vitamins, and kelp and chia sit at 0.5% each. Vitamins and trace elements are printed dose by dose, and the label also gives a calcium to phosphorus ratio of 1.3:1, a sensible balance even though the calcium percentage itself is left off.

Pouches run 300g, 500g and 700g, and a box holds 5, 10 or 15. A subscription portions to the dog, not to a set box.

As a portion guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works through roughly 583 grams a day, based on about 840 kcal a day from the standard maintenance estimate of 110 × bodyweight^0.75. Fresh food is mostly water, so a daily weight like that is meant to read far larger than a dry scoop would.