Brit Care Dog Monoprotein Christmas can 400 g review

Our Outstanding band sits at the top of the wet shelf, and this can settles into it a step above where the typical adult wet food lands. The carp does most of the lifting: one named animal at a high inclusion, with every other line printed to a percentage. That gives our scoring something it can actually read, and transparency comes back Outstanding with Excellent readings for nutritional balance and for protein and processing.

Ingredients, as declared: 70 % carp, 4 % potatos, 4 % carrots, 4 % peas, 2.7 % pea flour, 0.7 % lignocellulose.

Carp at 70% is the headline and the entire animal content. Protein converts to 40.5% of dry matter and fat to 16.7%, so this is a lean, fish led analysis, not a rich one. You will not often see freshwater fish in a dog bowl. That scarcity is the point for dogs that have already reacted to everyday poultry and red meats.

The plant side is short and fully declared: potatoes, carrots and peas at 4% each, with pea flour at 2.7% behind them. Carrots bring vitamin A and soluble fibre, and whole peas carry a wide spread of minerals along with a little plant protein. Between them they take the estimated carbohydrate to 30.0% of dry matter, where the typical adult wet food sits at 15.8%. Working the estimate out by difference tends to read high on a wet food. Treat it as the top of the likely range, not a measured figure.

Lignocellulose at 0.7% is the one line we would rather see swapped out. It is a purified plant fibre powder, genuinely useful for bulk and for keeping things regular, but nutritionally quiet compared with the fibre that comes inside a vegetable. At this inclusion it is a small part of the can.

The added panel is dosed in full, from vitamins A, D3, E and B1 through to zinc, iron, manganese, iodine and copper, with carob gum holding the texture together. Calcium converts to 1.43% of dry matter, a comfortable level for adult maintenance.

Sold as a single 400 g can.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would get through roughly 1031 grams a day, taking about 840 kcal a day as the maintenance target (110 × bodyweight^0.75). The energy behind that, 82 kcal per 100g, is our own estimate, not a declared figure.