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Butchers Recipes In Jelly Can: With Beef & Liver review

Name: Butchers Recipes In Jelly Can: With Beef & Liver
Brand: Butchers

63.3/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Meat and jelly and very little else, with all three tins in our Good band. There is no cereal, potato or vegetable on any of the labels. Read on what is declared, the analysis is a good one for a wet food: protein at 44.1% of dry matter.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept off grain and starchy vegetables
Dogs that do better on less carbohydrate, estimated here at 13.5% of dry matter against a wet norm of 15.8%
Owners who like a short list with the meat given percentages
Dogs that drink very little, as 83% of each tin is moisture
Adult dogs of any build, from the smallest breeds to giants

Worth watching

Chicken at 42% or more in every tin, which rules out a chicken-sensitive dog across the range
The jelly is not described, so about half the tin goes unaccounted for
Liver and kidney with no species, and plant fibres that name no plant
Salmon oil on all three labels

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

How this scores

How we score

63.3/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. A 15 kg adult needs about two of the 400g cans a day, so check the pack size suits your dog.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Beef 63.3
With Chicken 63.3
With Lamb 63.3

All three Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The three tins finish one on top of the other, and it is the meat side of the reading that keeps them just under the middle of a strong wet shelf.

What's in it

Chicken42%British and Irish farmed. The plain name usually signals fresh meat.
Beef4%The only tin with beef.
Liver4%Dense in vitamins and minerals, and very palatable. No species given.
Salmon oil
Plant fibresNames no plant at all.
Vitamins and minerals
Chicory root, MOSTwo prebiotics: inulin from the chicory, MOS from yeast cell walls.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, manganese and iodine, every figure printed.

Named ingredients

British and Irish Farmed Meats (Chicken 42%, Beef 4%, Liver 4%), Salmon Oil, Plant Fibres, Vitamins and Minerals, Chicory Root, MOS.

Against the range

Chicken: 42%; 46% in the chicken and liver tin
Second meat: Beef, 4%; None in the chicken tin; lamb in the third
Offal: Liver, 4%; Liver again, or kidney with the lamb

The red-meat option of the three.

British and Irish farmed chicken leads every tin, at 42% or 46%, with a second animal and an offal cut at 4% each behind it. After the meat the list runs short: salmon oil, plant fibres, vitamins and minerals, chicory root and MOS. No cereal, potato or added vegetable appears on any label.

The analysis panel is identical across all three. Moisture is 83%, and the jelly around the meat is never itemised, so the named ingredients account for about half the tin. Only the second meat changes.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

82 kcal/100g

Protein

7.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

83%

Dry weight

Protein

44.1%

Fat

29.4%

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

11.8%

Carbs

13.5%

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

48.1%

Added water

18%

Veg

3.7%

Oils

14.4%

Other

15.7%

Pricing & size