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Butchers Recovery & Revive Can review

Name: Butchers Recovery & Revive Can
Brand: Butchers

81.2/100Outstanding

WetAdult

A tin for the days when a dog needs coaxing back to the bowl, and it sits in our Outstanding band. Half of it is chicken, and the liquid is declared as a broth with its own percentage. Almost no carbohydrate and high fat let a small serving carry real energy.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs picking at dinner. The tin is soft, strongly meaty and easy to warm through
More energy from less food, with fat at 38.9% of dry matter
Owners who want the animal share counted: chicken at 50%, broth at 39.5%
Dogs that do poorly on starch, at an estimated 1.7% carbohydrate in dry matter
An older dog whose appetite has turned small and unreliable

Worth watching

Salmon oil beside the chicken, so no one-animal exclusion trial
Cooked white rice at 7.5%, so not grain free
A full tin for a dog already in good condition, who needs less than one rebuilding
An everyday food shaped around recovery, not a veterinary diet

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

How this scores

How we score

81.2/100Outstanding

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. A dog eating it while the appetite recovers will often take less than the daily guide at a sitting, so offer small amounts.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Butchers Recovery & Revive Can 81.2

All one Outstanding. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Very little of this tin is anything other than chicken, broth and a little rice. Counting both the chicken and the broth is a large part of why it sits above the middle of a strong field.

What's in it

British and Irish farmed chicken50%The whole animal content, and about as palatable and digestible as everyday meat gets.
Broth (water and dried seaweed)39.5%Declared with a percentage, which most tins skip. The seaweed share is not split out.
Cooked white rice7.5%The gentlest cereal, the classic choice after a rough week.
Salmon oil1%Marine omega oils, and with them, fish.
Minerals
Yeast (MOS, beta-glucans)0.15%MOS at 0.05% feeds the friendly gut bacteria.
Chicory root (FOS)0.06%
Yucca, paraprobiotic Lactobacillus helveticus0.005%, 0.001%Each printed with a dose.

Vitamins A, D3, E and C, with manganese, zinc, copper and iodine, all dosed in print.

Named ingredients

British and Irish Farmed Chicken 50%, Broth 39.5% (Including Water and Dried Seaweed), Cooked White Rice 7.5%, Salmon Oil 1%, Minerals, Yeast 0.15% (Prebiotic MOS 0.05%, Beta-Glucans 0.045%), Chicory Root; Prebiotic FOS 0.06%, Yucca 0.005%, Paraprobiotic Lactobacillus Helveticus 0.001%.

Against the range

One recipe: chicken at 50%, a broth of water and dried seaweed declared at 39.5%, cooked white rice at 7.5% and salmon oil, then a gut cluster where every prebiotic carries a dose.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

93.3 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

44.4%

Fat

38.9%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

13.9%

Carbs

1.7%

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

39.5%

Carbs

7.5%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

Other

1.9%

Pricing & size