Butchers

Butchers Simply Gentle Can: Chicken & Rice review

Name: Butchers Simply Gentle Can: Chicken & Rice
Brand: Butchers

74.4/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Butchers' easy-digestion tin, built from familiar things and printed with percentages throughout. All three recipes hold our Excellent band, the salmon a shade ahead. Chicken and beef are in every tin, which matters more than the name on the front.

View on Amazon

Affiliate link. As an Amazon Associate, Off the Leash earns from qualifying purchases.

Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with easily upset digestion, the dog this recipe is written for
Owners who read percentages: the chicken tin prints 38.5% chicken and 13.5% beef
Dogs fine with a little gentle grain
A dog that drinks little, as moisture is 82%
Bigger dogs, with a feeding guide that runs past 45kg

Worth watching

Chicken and beef in all three, so no tin here works for an elimination trial on either
Salmon oil on every label, and the fish itself at 12.5% in the salmon tin
Wholegrain rice, a cereal, if your dog has been steered off grain

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

How this scores

How we score

74.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The table groups 10 to 25kg together, so expect somewhere between 2 and 4 tins a day for a 15kg dog and let the waistline decide.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Salmon 75.5
Turkey 74.5
Chicken 74.4

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

One analysis across three tins, so the small gap between them comes from how the animal content is divided and nothing you would see in the bowl.

What's in it

British and Irish farmed meat: chicken, beef38.5%, 13.5%Fresh meats, named and given percentages.
Broth (water, dried seaweed)39.5%No split between the two. Seaweed brings iodine.
Cooked wholegrain rice6%The one cereal.
Salmon oil0.3%A little marine omega, enough to matter to a fish-avoiding household.
Minerals
Chicory root, yeastFOS 0.06%, MOS 0.05%Prebiotics for a delicate gut.
Parsley, rosehip, mint

Vitamins A, D3 and E with manganese, zinc and iodine, all dosed per kilo.

Named ingredients

British and Irish Farmed Meat (Chicken 38.5%, Beef 13.5%), Broth 39.5% (Including Water and Dried Seaweed), Cooked Wholegrain Rice 6%, Salmon Oil 0.3%, Minerals, Chicory Root (Prebiotic FOS 0.06%), Yeast (Prebiotic MOS 0.05%), Parsley, Rosehip, Mint.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 38.5%, beef 13.5%; Chicken drops to 26% or 28% on the others.
Other animals on the label: None beyond chicken and beef; Turkey 11.5% or salmon 12.5%.
Analysis: Protein 44.4% of dry matter; Identical on all three.

The two-animal tin, and the simplest list of the three.

Every tin opens with British and Irish farmed chicken and beef, both given percentages, with beef constant at 13.5%. Broth takes 39.5% and cooked wholegrain rice 6%, then salmon oil at 0.3% and two prebiotics with printed doses.

The analysis panel is identical across all three, with protein at 44.4% of dry matter. What changes is the third animal on the front, turkey or salmon, and the chicken share that steps back to make room for it.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

81.7 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

44.4%

Fat

27.8%

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

30.8%

Added water

39.5%

Carbs

Veg

8.1%

Oils

0.3%

Other

15.3%

Pricing & size