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Butchers Succulent Recipes Foil: With Lamb & Kidney review

Name: Butchers Succulent Recipes Foil: With Lamb & Kidney
Brand: Butchers

70.1/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Meat, broth and a little organ in a foil tray, with no cereal anywhere. Each flavour names its animals with percentages, and chicken does the heavy lifting in all three. The lamb tray reaches our Excellent band, with the beef and chicken a whisker behind in Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that like dinner with some moisture in it
Owners who want a meat-led wet food
Dogs kept off grain
Flavour rotation, since one analysis means portions never need rethinking
Any size of dog, toy to giant

Worth watching

Chicken in every tray, so none suits a dog kept off chicken
Salmon oil throughout, so no tray is fish free
Liver, kidney and plant fibres with no species or source named

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

How this scores

How we score

70.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label's own table puts a 15kg adult at 675 to 900 grams a day; for a sensitive dog, read the back of the tray against the front first.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Lamb 70.1
With Beef 69.1
With Chicken 69.1

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

The meat is declared properly and the analysis is meat-led; unnamed liver, kidney and plant fibres are the detail that keeps two of the three a whisker short.

What's in it

Chicken33.5%Leads the lamb.
Lamb and lamb broth26%The only lamb in the range.
Kidney5.5%No species named.
Salmon oil
Plant fibres
Vitamins and minerals
Chicory root, MOS

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, manganese and iodine, each dosed on the additives panel.

Named ingredients

Chicken 33.5%, Lamb and Lamb Broth 26%, Kidney 5.5%, Salmon Oil, Plant Fibres, Vitamins & Minerals, Chicory Root, MOS.

Against the range

Organ: Kidney 5.5%; Liver 8.5% on the other two
Meat: Chicken 33.5%, lamb and broth 26%; Beef on the other two
Analysis: Carbohydrate 10.0% of dry matter; Identical across all three

A step ahead of the other two, and the only tray built around kidney.

Three foil trays on one build: named meat and broth with a little organ, adding up to 65% of every recipe. Salmon oil, plant fibres, the vitamin pack and a chicory root and MOS prebiotic pair follow. No cereal appears on any label, and all three share one analysis.

Chicken leads or is the headline in every tray, whatever the front says. What varies is the second animal and the organ: beef with liver, lamb with kidney, or chicken-led with beef and liver.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

88 kcal/100g

Protein

8.5%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

47.2%

Fat

30.6%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

10%

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

65%

Added water

21%

Veg

1.5%

Oils

Other

6.5%

Pricing & size