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Butchers Puppy Perfect Can: With Beef review

Name: Butchers Puppy Perfect Can: With Beef
Brand: Butchers

70.6/100Excellent

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Flavour

Three supermarket tins for puppies that name every species of their British and Irish meat. The Beef reaches our Excellent band and the other two sit just under in Good. DHA is printed with a figure, a genuinely good sign on a tin at this level.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies that eat far better from a wet bowl
Owners who want the meat traced and broken down species by species
Brains and eyes still forming, with DHA at 0.07% and salmon oil in every tin
Puppies kept off cereal
A digestion that likes a prebiotic

Worth watching

Chicken leads all three, so the beef and lamb are an accent
Salmon oil throughout, so fish is in every tin
Light for a growth food at 85 kcal per 100g, so portions run large

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

How this scores

How we score

70.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every finishing size. For a pup that will finish large or giant, check the calcium position first: only the Chicken prints a figure.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Beef 70.6
With Lamb 69.2
With Chicken 67.3

Three recipes across Excellent and Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The named meat and light carbohydrate earn the placing in a strong field; thin calcium reporting and a short trace mineral list keep two of them a step under.

What's in it

Chicken40%The main meat, whatever the tin says on the front.
Beef10%Part of a 50% British and Irish farmed meat declaration.
Salmon oilThe sole added oil here, and the reason fish is in the bowl.
Parsley, rosehip, chicory, mintChicory is the one doing real work, as a source of inulin for a young gut.
Minerals
Prebiotic (mannan-oligosaccharide)0.2%The only tin of the three to dose it.
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)0.07%The fatty acid most tied to a puppy's brain and retinal development, printed with a figure.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, manganese and iodine per kilo; no copper or selenium figure is given.

No calcium figure on this label, the one line a large or giant breed owner most needs. Ask Butchers for it.

Named ingredients

British & Irish Farmed Meat 50% (Chicken 40%, Beef 10%), Salmon Oil, Parsley, Rosehip, Chicory, Mint, Minerals, Prebiotic (Mannan-Oligosaccharide 0.2%), Docosahexaenoic Acid (Dha 0.07%).

Against the range

Animals on the label: Chicken and beef; Chicken, beef and liver in the Chicken; lamb as well in the Lamb
Added oils: Salmon oil only; Sunflower oil as well in the other two
Prebiotic dose: 0.2%; Listed without a dose
Calcium: Not declared; Declared only on the Chicken

The simplest tin of the three, and the easiest to serve a pup kept to a short list of meats.

Three tinned growth foods, each half British and Irish farmed meat with every species itemised, and chicken leading all three whatever the front says. No cereal appears anywhere. The analysis is identical across the range, with protein at 44.4% and fat at 33.3% of dry matter.

Salmon oil and DHA at 0.07% run through every tin, with a small herb tail and a mannan-oligosaccharide prebiotic. Calcium is the untidy line: one tin declares it and two do not.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

85 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

50%

Added water

30%

Veg

5.4%

Oils

7.8%

Other

6.9%

Pricing & size