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Butchers Healthy Heart Can: With Trout & Veg review

Name: Butchers Healthy Heart Can: With Trout & Veg
Brand: Butchers

77.2/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Butchers' heart minded tin, and the recipe under the name is more interesting than the name. Three animals are named with percentages, the broth is declared, and taurine and L-carnitine are printed with doses. All three sit in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Older dogs whose owners want taurine in the daily bowl, at 200 mg per kilo
Dogs that need their animal content named and weighed
Dogs kept off cereal altogether
Dogs that need more water in their day
Fussy eaters, with three pairings to move between

Worth watching

Chicken and beef in every tin, so no elimination diet for a dog reacting to either
The animal on the front comes third by weight
Fat at 33.3% of dry matter, so portion carefully for a dog carrying extra weight

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

How this scores

How we score

77.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog eats a little over two and a half cans a day, and a dog fed on them alone takes much of its water at mealtimes.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Salmon 77.2
With Trout 77.2
With Turkey 77.2

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A recipe with no soft side: the three tins score identically, so choose by the third animal.

What's in it

Chicken30.5%Leads every recipe in the range.
Trout11.5%A less usual fish for a British tin.
Beef9.5%
Broth, with water and dried seaweed42.5%Declared as broth with a figure, more honest than listing water. Seaweed brings iodine.
Sweet potato, spinach2% eachOnly this tin uses sweet potato.
Minerals
Dried algae oil0.12%Long chain omega 3 that does not depend on fish.
Parsley, chicory root, rosehip, mintChicory's inulin is a prebiotic, though all four are small.

Taurine at 200 mg and L-carnitine at 100 mg per kilo, with vitamins A, E and C and dosed trace minerals; no vitamin D3 line.

Named ingredients

British and Irish Farmed Meats (Chicken 30.5%, Trout 11.5%, Beef 9.5%), Broth 42.5% (Including Water and Dried Seaweed), Sweet Potato 2%, Spinach 2%, Minerals, Dried Algae Oil 0.12%, Parsley, Chicory Root, Rosehip, Mint.

Against the range

Third animal: Trout, 11.5%; Salmon or turkey in the others
Vegetables: Sweet potato, spinach; No sweet potato in the other two
Panel: No vitamin D3, copper 1 mg; Same as the salmon; turkey differs

A change of fish for a dog that has had plenty of salmon.

All three tins open on British and Irish farmed meats broken out by percentage: chicken at 30.5%, a third animal at 11.5% and beef at 9.5%, over a broth declared at 42.5%. There is no cereal anywhere. Taurine and L-carnitine are dosed on every label, and dried algae oil carries the omega 3.

What changes is the third animal, salmon, trout or turkey, and the two vegetables at 2% each. The turkey label alone prints vitamin D3; the fish tins carry more copper. The analysis is shared, with moisture at 82%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

83.8 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

38.9%

Fat

33.3%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

13.9%

Carbs

12.8%

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

30.9%

Added water

42.5%

Carbs

Veg

8.4%

Oils

0.1%

Other

16%

Pricing & size