Edgard & Cooper Chicken & Duck Puppy Grain-Free Wet Dog Food
Wet food in 5.3 oz trays, complete and balanced for puppies. With the water taken out it is 39% protein and 33% fat, and each tray carries 146 kcal.
- Complete & balanced for puppies (AAFCO, on the label)
- 5.3 oz tray
- 82% water
*For a 45 lb adult dog on this food alone. Set your own dog.
Ingredient Wiki
Chicken
The clean flesh of the chicken, with or without skin, used fresh. Roughly 70% of its weight is water, most…
Water
Plain water, used to make the recipe mixable and, in wet food, to fill the can.
Duck
The clean flesh of the duck, with or without skin, used fresh.
Chicken Liver
The liver of the chicken, an organ meat.
Carrots
The root of the carrot plant, used fresh, cooked or dried.
Our read The ingredients
Mostly meat, with a prebiotic claim stretched thin
Signature feature
Prebiotics
Supports gut health by promoting growth of good gut bacteria
What it is No dedicated prebiotic like chicory appears. The fermentable fiber comes from peas, apples and pumpkin at sixth to ninth, plus guar and locust bean gums used to set the paté.
Our grade
- Marketing
- Modest
- Meaningful
Guar gum and apple pectin do feed gut bacteria, so the claim isn't empty. But these are thickeners and produce common to wet foods, relabeled as a gut feature. Expect ordinary digestion, not a fix.
Modest Real, but smaller than the pack makes it sound.
Chicken, duck and chicken liver take three of the top four spots. Salmon oil, sold for coat health, sits 14th, just above the salt.
- 1 Chicken
- 3 Duck
- 4 Chicken Liver
- 14 Salmon Oil
- 15 Salt
What’s in the tray
- First meat
- Chicken, first on the list. Named meats near the top: Chicken, Duck and Chicken Liver.
- Thickeners and binders
- Carrageenan, Guar Gum and Locust Bean Gum. They give the food its texture and hold pieces together. Normal in wet food; starches and flours also add carbohydrate.
- Added color
- None listed.
- Flagged additives
- Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source of Vitamin K Activity). Why we flag these.
Guaranteed
Analysis
As printed on the tray, measured “as fed”
- Calories
- 973 kcal/kg
- Crude Protein (min.)
- 7.0%
- Crude Fat (min.)
- 6.0%
- Crude Fiber (max.)
- 1.5%
- Moisture (max.)
- 82.0%
146 kcal per 5.3 oz tray.
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Full Ingredient
Declaration
Exactly as the tray prints it, heaviest first
Chicken, Water, Duck, Chicken Liver, Carrots, Peas, Apples, Broccoli, Pumpkin, Carrageenan, Guar Gum, Dicalcium Phosphate, Locust Bean Gum, Salmon Oil, Salt*The Salt Divider. Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after this point is present in an even smaller amount., Potassium Chloride, Parsley, Dill, Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Manganese Sulfate, Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B5), Niacin (Vitamin B3), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source of Vitamin K Activity), Copper Sulfate, Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Calcium Iodate, Biotin (Vitamin B7), Vitamin D3 Supplement
Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after the divider is present in an even smaller amount.
Wet food is mostly water, so the label’s percentages look small next to kibble. Taking the water out is the only fair way to compare it with other foods.
| NUTRIENT | ON THE LABEL | WATER OUT | WET FOOD MEDIAN |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROTEIN | 7.0% | 38.9% | 43.2% |
| FAT | 6.0% | 33.3% | 22.2% |
| FIBER | 1.5% | 8.3% | - |
| CARBS (EST.) | - | 8.3% | - |
Carbohydrate is not on any label: it is what is left after protein, fat, fiber, water and an assumed 2% ash.
Our read The label
A fat-rich puppy paté with almost no starch
68%
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How was it proven?
Formulated
Built on paper to AAFCO growth levels, with one exception: it is not for puppies headed past 70 lb as adults.
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Is it a high-protein food?
Not quite
On a dry basis it's 38.9% protein, a bit under the 42% wet food average we list. Fat sits close behind at 33.3%.
- Feed it to
- Small and medium breed puppies, fed alone or spooned over a puppy kibble for extra calories.
- Skip it for
- Large breed puppies headed past 70 lb, fat-sensitive dogs, and dogs allergic to chicken, duck or fish.
What a tray costs
| SIZE | LOWEST PRICE | PER LB | WHERE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 oz | $2.99 | $9.97 | PetSmart |
| 5.3 oz | $2.99LIVE | $9.06 | PetSmart |
| 10.6 oz | $3.99LIVE | $6.05 | PetSmart |
| 11.2 oz | $3.99 | $5.70 | PetSmart |
Prices marked LIVE were read from the store on Oct 25. Others are from our check on Oct 18. Prices change often; the store’s price at checkout is the one that counts. We may earn a commission on some links.
Daily portion calculator
Calculated from the resting energy formula vets use and this food’s actual calorie density (973 kcal per kg, 146 kcal per tray). A starting point to adjust from, not a prescription.
No Recalls In Our Record Since 2012
We have not matched any FDA recall to Edgard & Cooper. We check the feed daily and this page updates when that changes. See the recall log
Other Flavors
Protein with the water taken out, read the same way.
Similar recipes from other brands
Other wet food recipes with the closest protein, fat and moisture as fed, the way the label prints them. Prescription diets are left out.
Lower-priced alternative
$2.61/lb vs $5.70/lb for this recipe. A similar protein, fat and moisture profile for less per pound, from the lowest price per pound we have saved for each. Prices change; check before you buy.
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