Brit Premium by Nature Beef with Tripe review

The analysis is what carries this tin into our Excellent band. Protein converts to 40.9% of dry matter and fat to 29.5%. The estimated carbohydrate comes in level with the middle of the wet category, which is not easy for a recipe leaning on pea flour. Nutritional balance and transparency both read Outstanding, and protein and processing reads Good. A typical adult wet food reaches our Excellent band too, so keeping pace with the shelf is a decent result for a recipe that leaves two of its lines unquantified.

Ingredients, as declared: beef (36%), chicken (22%), tripe (4%), collagen (1%), pea flour, lignocellulose, salmon oil (0.5%).

Beef at 36% and chicken at 22% make up the bulk of the animal content, with tripe at 4% and collagen at 1% behind them. Tripe is the stomach lining of a ruminant and one of the more nutritious things you can put in front of a dog. It is rich in protein, easy to digest and very hard for most dogs to ignore. Collagen is connective tissue, a protein of a different sort that does more for the texture of the tin than for its nutrition.

Protein converts to 40.9% of dry matter and fat to 29.5%, a rich reading without being extreme, and the tin runs to 106 kcal per 100g. The estimated carbohydrate is the standout at 15.5% of dry matter, sitting right where the typical adult wet food does, which is unusual for a recipe using pea flour as its binder. That estimate is calculated by difference, as all wet carbohydrate readings are, so the true figure may be lower still.

Pea flour and lignocellulose are the two lines the label stays quiet about. Milled from peas, pea flour carries fibre and a little plant protein, perfectly reasonable in the modest amounts its position in the list implies. Lignocellulose is a purified fibre powder, useful for bulk but nutritionally quiet next to fibre arriving inside a whole vegetable. The only gap in an otherwise open label is that neither entry carries a percentage.

Salmon oil at 0.5% is the named fat, bringing omega 3 in the form dogs use most readily. Every added vitamin and trace element on the panel shows its dose. Calcium converts to 1.36% of dry matter, comfortable for adult maintenance.

Sold in 0.4 kg and 0.8 kg tins.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would eat about 789 grams a day, working from a maintenance figure of roughly 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75).