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Buddy Wet Canned Pâté: Salmon & Chicken Feast review

Name: Buddy Wet Canned Pâté: Salmon & Chicken Feast
Brand: Buddy

41.6/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

A Nordic pâté range built on meat and offal and very little else, all six tins in our Average band. What sets it apart is the bracket: the label names and counts every part inside its meat heading, which that phrase rarely allows. Wet food scores strongly as a category, so an honest, meaty tin can still sit below the middle.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that thrive on organ meat, heart, gizzard and trachea all counted
Owners who want to know what sits behind a category heading
One animal per tin in the lamb, duck, turkey and beef
Grain-avoiding homes; pea flour is the only real plant entry
Poor drinkers. The tins run to 78% moisture
Rotation feeding, six recipes on one build

Worth watching

The animal content arrives as meat and animal derivatives, so an elimination diet needs the parts confirmed in writing
Fibre from lignocellulose, not whole vegetables
Less calcium in the Turkey & Rabbit, 0.68% of dry matter against 0.91%
One size of tin only, 400g, which a toy breed will spread over two or three meals

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

How this scores

How we score

41.6/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. For a small dog, plan how a 400g tin will be stored once opened before buying the pack of 6.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Salmon

The score, in context

Salmon 41.6
Delightful Duck 41.5
Juicy Turkey 41.3
Yummy Beef 41.3
Delicious Lamb 40.2
Turkey 40.1

All six Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Honest, meaty tins held under the wet-food middle by the category heading the animal content arrives under.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives: chicken meat, chicken heart39% (25%, 14%)
Fish and fish derivatives (salmon)26%Species named, parts not split.
Pea flour2%The binder, and the only real plant entry.
Lignocellulose0.7%Purified plant fibre, bulk without calories.
Calcium carbonate0.3%
Dried kelp0.1%Iodine and trace minerals.
Dried cranberries, dried blueberries0.01% eachA garnish on the label.

Vitamins A, D3, E and B1 with biotin, zinc, iron, manganese and potassium iodide, each with a figure per kilo.

The only tin with fish in it, and two animals share it.

Named ingredients

39% meat and animal derivatives (25% chicken meat, 14% chicken heart), 26% fish and fish derivatives (salmon), 2% pea flour, 0.7% lignocellulose, 0.3% calcium carbonate, 0.1% dried kelp, 0.01% dried cranberries, 0.01% dried blueberries.

Against the range

Animals: Chicken 39%, salmon 26%; The others fill 65% with land animals.
Fat, dry matter: 31.8%; Second only to the duck.

The tin for a dog that wants fish in the rotation.

Five tins open with 65% meat and animal derivatives, and the bracket after it names every part inside that figure with its own percentage: muscle meat with heart, gizzard, intestine or trachea. The Salmon & Chicken splits the same total between 39% meat and 26% fish. No oil is added anywhere, so all the fat arrives inside the meat.

Behind the animal share the list is the same on every tin: pea flour at 2%, lignocellulose at 0.7%, calcium carbonate, kelp and a trace of cranberry and blueberry. Protein runs from 36.4% to 43.2% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

100.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

8.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

38.6%

Fat

31.8%

Fibre

3.2%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

15%

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

77.2%

Added water

19.1%

Carbs

2.4%

Veg

0.1%

Other

1.2%

Pricing & size