Autarky

Autarky Adult Grain Free Wet: Succulent Salmon review

Name: Autarky Adult Grain Free Wet: Succulent Salmon
Brand: Autarky

75.5/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Pick the animal and the rest of the recipe stays put. All three land in our Excellent band, each opening on a single named meat or fish at 66% with potato and a short run of vegetables behind it. A herb garden closes every list.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that thrive on one particular animal, named at 66% at the top of the label
Owners who want a printed percentage against the headline ingredient
Grain-avoiding homes: potato, peas and carrots carry the starch and no cereal appears
Rotation feeders. A swap changes the protein and very little else
Dogs that need a richer bowl, fat at 30.0% of dry matter on chicken and lamb and 36.4% on salmon

Worth watching

Fish oil on all three lists, so a fish-avoiding dog cannot be trialled on any of them
Glucosamine and chondroitin at gesture levels, well short of a working joint dose
One 395 g size for the whole range, more than a small dog eats at a sitting

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

How this scores

How we score

75.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. For a small dog, plan fridge space for the part-used tin.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Delicious Chicken 76.6
Luscious Lamb 76.1
Succulent Salmon 75.5

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The three finish within a hair of one another, so the animal is the only real choice to make.

What's in it

Freshly prepared salmon66%Weighed wet, before cooking.
Potato meal5%
Dried peas, dried carrots, dried potato0.9%, 0.4%, 0.5%
Minerals, dried broccoli, tomato, apple
Rosemary, parsley, oregano, thyme0.1% eachPrinted figures make rosemary easy to check for an epileptic dog.
Fish oil, sunflower oilHere the fish oil belongs with the salmon.
Dried seaweed, FOS
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.004%, 0.002%
Cranberry, yucca extract, yeast extract

Vitamin D3 at 328 iu and vitamin E at 26 mg, with zinc at 24 mg leading the trace minerals.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Salmon (66%), Potato Meal (5%), Dried Peas (0.9% equivalent to 3% peas), Dried Carrots (0.4% equivalent to 3% carrot), Dried Potato (0.5% equivalent to 2% potato), Minerals, Dried Broccoli, Dried Tomato, Dried Apple, Rosemary (0.1%), Parsley (0.1%), Oregano (0.1%), Thyme (0.1%), Fish Oil, Sunflower Oil, Dried Seaweed, FOS, Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin (0.002%), Cranberry, Yucca Extract, Yeast Extract.

Against the range

Carbohydrate, dry matter: An estimated 4.4%; 18.0% on chicken, 14.0% on lamb.
Fat, dry matter: 36.4%; 30.0% on the other two.
Protein, dry matter: 45.5%; 40.0% on chicken and lamb.
Single animal: Holds all the way down the list; The other two add fish oil to a land meat.

The leanest on carbohydrate and the only one whose single animal is the whole story.

One construction, three animals. Freshly prepared chicken, lamb or salmon leads every label at 66%, weighed wet, so it shrinks once cooked. Potato meal at 5% does the starch work, with dried peas, carrots and potato printed alongside their fresh equivalents, then broccoli, tomato and apple at trace level.

Rosemary, parsley, oregano and thyme follow at 0.1% each. Fish oil and sunflower oil are on all three, so none is fish free. Glucosamine at 0.004% and chondroitin at 0.002% close the list. What changes from recipe to recipe is the animal and, with it, the fat and carbohydrate in dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

106.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

45.5%

Fat

36.4%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

4.4%

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

66%

Added water

17.2%

Carbs

12.7%

Veg

2.9%

Oils

0.1%

Other

1.1%