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Butchers Simply Gentle Foil: With Chicken & Rice review

Name: Butchers Simply Gentle Foil: With Chicken & Rice
Brand: Butchers

73.8/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Butchers' easy-digestion recipe in 150g trays, rated Excellent across all three. Every meat carries its own percentage and the broth is named. Chicken and beef sit in every tray, whatever the name on the front says.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs with a temperamental gut, the dog the recipe is written around
One-dog homes where a big tin ends up half used
A number beside every meat
A modest amount of grain, wholegrain rice at 6% and nothing else
Dogs that barely touch their water: 82% of each tray is moisture

Worth watching

Chicken and beef in all three, so no avoidance plan around either
Salmon oil in every tray
Wholegrain rice, for a dog moved off grain

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

How this scores

How we score

73.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Count the trays before ordering: a 15kg dog gets through a little over six a day.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Turkey 73.9
With Chicken 73.8
With Salmon 73.7

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Level with one another and in the thick of a good wet field, carried there by named meat shares and a modest carbohydrate figure.

What's in it

Chicken, beef38.5%, 13.5%No third animal.
Broth (water, dried seaweed)39.5%The liquid is named and given a share; seaweed brings iodine.
Cooked wholegrain rice6%The only cereal, and why the trays are not grain free.
Salmon oil0.3%A light touch, enough to put fish on the label.
Minerals
Chicory root, yeastFOS 0.06%, MOS 0.05%Prebiotics, with doses.
Parsley, rosehip, mint

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, manganese, copper at 0.5 mg and iodine.

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%; Salmon or turkey added on the other two, with less chicken.
Copper: 0.5 mg; 1 mg on the salmon.

The straightforward one, two animals and nothing else.

Every tray is British and Irish farmed meat with a percentage against each animal: chicken leads, beef holds at 13.5%, and a third animal names the salmon and turkey trays. A broth of water and dried seaweed at 39.5%, wholegrain rice at 6%, salmon oil at 0.3% and two dosed prebiotics complete each list. The analysis is identical across the three, protein at 44.4% of dry matter; only the vitamin panel shifts a little between flavours.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

90 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

32.3%

Added water

39.5%

Carbs

Veg

4.2%

Oils

0.3%

Other

17.6%

Pricing & size