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Butchers Joints & Coat Foil: With Salmon review

Name: Butchers Joints & Coat Foil: With Salmon
Brand: Butchers

75.4/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

The Butchers joint and coat recipe in 150g trays, and all three land in our Excellent band. The extras come with printed figures, down to chondroitin at 0.007%, which few labels in the aisle bother with. Underneath it is meat and broth with very little else.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Senior dogs on a joint routine. Glucosamine, chondroitin and green lipped mussel are all named
Itchy or dull coats, with two omega 3 sources in every tray
Owners who want the portion decided, at 150g a tray
Dogs that do best on meat, with carbohydrate as low as 7.3% of dry matter
Grain-free households: no cereal in any tray

Worth watching

Salmon oil in every tray, if fish is off the menu
Beef behind the chicken in all three
Joint ingredients are small by weight. Keep to any dose your vet has set

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

How this scores

How we score

75.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. A 15kg dog eats a little over five trays a day, so a large dog will get through a case quickly.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Turkey 75.5
With Salmon 75.4
With Chicken 75.1

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All three sit right in with a strong wet category, on meat-led numbers and a label that prints its figures.

What's in it

British and Irish farmed meats: Chicken 27%, beef 13.5%, salmon 13.5%Each animal itemised with its own percentage.
Broth, including water and dried seaweed42.5%Declared with a number. The seaweed brings iodine.
Salmon oil1%A genuine helping of long-chain omega 3, and fish in every tray.
Minerals
Dried algae oil0.12%A second omega 3 source.
Green lipped mussel0.07%A whole-food source of joint compounds plus its own omega 3.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.015% and 0.007%Printed, but at complete-food levels, well under a supplement dose.
Parsley, chicory root, rosehip, mintChicory brings prebiotic inulin.

Vitamins A and E with biotin, manganese, zinc, copper and iodine; no vitamin D3 line on this tray.

Named ingredients

British and Irish Farmed Meats (Chicken 27%, Beef 13.5%, Salmon 13.5%), Broth 42.5% (Including Water and Dried Seaweed), Salmon Oil 1%, Minerals, Dried Algae Oil 0.12%, Green Lipped Mussel 0.07%, Parsley, Glucosamine 0.015%, Chicory Root, Rosehip, Mint, Chondroitin 0.007%.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 27%, beef and salmon 13.5% each; Chicken leads harder on the other two.
Vitamin D3: Not listed; 125 I.U. per kilo on the others.
Copper: 1 mg per kilo; 0.5 mg on the others.

The tray to reach for if your dog thrives on oily fish.

Every tray leads with British and Irish farmed meats, chicken first and beef at 13.5%. Where a third animal joins, it is the chicken share that gives way. Broth at about 43%, with dried seaweed, comes next, and the trays are declared at 82% water.

Salmon oil at 1%, dried algae oil, green lipped mussel, glucosamine and chondroitin are all printed with figures on all three. Protein converts to 44.4% of dry matter and fat to 33.3% throughout, with no cereal anywhere.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

88.6 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

44.4%

Fat

33.3%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

10.1%

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

32.7%

Added water

42.5%

Veg

6.8%

Oils

1.1%

Other

16.9%

Pricing & size