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Butchers Healthy Heart Foil: With Salmon & Veg review

Name: Butchers Healthy Heart Foil: With Salmon & Veg
Brand: Butchers

75.9/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Butchers' heart-minded recipe in 150g foil trays, and all three sit in our Excellent band. Taurine and L-carnitine are both printed with doses, which most wet labels never manage. The broth gets a figure of its own, and three animals are named with their percentages.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Smaller dogs and single-dog homes. A tray is opened and finished with nothing left over
Owners who want taurine and L-carnitine in the bowl daily, at 200 mg and 100 mg per kilo
Dogs that must stay off cereal
Topping up a dry diet with moisture without serving a second dinner
Watching an older dog closely, where fixed portions take out the guesswork
Rotating three pairings on one recipe

Worth watching

The animal named on the front sits third by weight, behind chicken and beef
Beef and chicken in all three, which rules the range out for an elimination diet
Fish in the salmon and trout trays

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

How this scores

How we score

75.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label asks 675 to 1165 grams a day for a 15kg dog, a little over six trays at the middle, so check how far a case goes for a bigger dog.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Salmon 75.9
With Trout 75.9
With Turkey 75.9

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A level set of pillar readings, with no one tall pillar propping up the rest, takes these trays clear of the middle of a strong wet category.

What's in it

Chicken30.5%Heads every tray, whatever the front says.
Salmon11.5%Named on the front, third by weight. Puts fish in the tray.
Beef9.5%In every tray. The entry people miss.
Broth, with water and dried seaweed42.5%Given its own figure. The seaweed brings iodine and sea minerals.
Broccoli, butternut squash2% each
Minerals
Dried algae oil0.12%Long-chain omega 3 without relying on fish.
Parsley, chicory root, rosehip, mintChicory brings prebiotic inulin.

Taurine at 200 mg and L-carnitine at 100 mg a kilo lead the panel, with vitamins A, E and C and copper at 1 mg; no vitamin D3 line.

Chicken and beef are in every tray, so none of the three suits an elimination diet.

Named ingredients

British and Irish Farmed Meats (Chicken 30.5%, Salmon 11.5%, Beef 9.5%), Broth 42.5% (Including Water and Dried Seaweed), Broccoli 2%, Butternut Squash 2%, Minerals, Dried Algae Oil 0.12%, Parsley, Chicory Root, Rosehip, Mint.

Against the range

Flavour animal: Salmon, 11.5%; Trout or turkey at the same share.
Vegetables: Broccoli and butternut squash; Sweet potato and spinach on the trout; squash and spinach on the turkey.
Vitamin D3, copper: No D3 line; copper 1 mg; Same as the trout; the turkey prints D3 and copper at 0.5 mg.

The familiar fish of the three, on the same broth and the same meat base.

Every tray carries chicken at 30.5%, beef at 9.5% and a flavour animal at 11.5%, all British and Irish farmed meats. Broth is declared at 42.5% with water and dried seaweed. No tray carries any grain.

Taurine and L-carnitine are dosed in print on all three, and dried algae oil supplies the long-chain omega 3. The analysis is shared: protein at 38.9% of dry matter, fat at 33.3%, and estimated carbohydrate at only 12.8%. What varies is the flavour animal, the two vegetables and a couple of panel lines.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

88.2 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%

Veg

10.4%

Oils

0.1%

Other

16%

Pricing & size