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Butchers Traditional Recipes Foil: With Beef and Vegetables review

Name: Butchers Traditional Recipes Foil: With Beef and Vegetables
Brand: Butchers

76.9/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Excellent across all three, on meat that is printed in the open. Each tray names every animal with its percentage, and they come to 65% of the recipe. The front of the pack says beef, lamb or turkey, but chicken leads every list.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want each animal spelled out with a percentage
Dogs that do better away from cereal
Smaller dogs and dainty eaters. A 150g tray opens fresh for each meal
Rotating meals, since only the partner meat changes
Poor drinkers; more than three quarters of every tray is moisture

Worth watching

Chicken is the biggest meat in every tray, whatever the front says
Beef in the lamb and turkey trays as well as the beef one
Salmon oil in all three, so none can carry a strict elimination diet

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

How this scores

How we score

76.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Read the meat line, not the flavour name, before matching a tray to your dog.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Beef 76.9
With Turkey 74.2
With Lamb 70.3

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All three sit together, so the choice is about which meat your dog enjoys; the beef tray edges ahead on its larger chicken share.

What's in it

Chicken39%The highest chicken share in the range.
Beef, including beef broth26%The broth is counted here, so the liquid is meat stock.
Carrots3%
Peas1.5%
Salmon oilNo percentage. A useful addition, not a measured omega 3 dose.
Plant fibresThe one loose entry: no plant named.
Vitamins and minerals
Chicory root, MOSGut-minded, at the trace end of the list.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, manganese and iodine, each dosed per kilo, though no calcium figure is printed.

Named ingredients

Chicken 39%, Beef (Including Beef Broth) 26%, Carrots 3%, Peas 1.5%, Salmon Oil, Plant Fibres, Vitamins & Minerals, Chicory Root, MOS.

Against the range

Chicken: 39%; 30.5% on the lamb and turkey.
Other animals on the label: None beyond chicken and beef; The other two add beef at 8.5% behind their own meat.
Vegetables: Carrots and peas together; One vegetable each on the others.

Two animals only, which makes this the simplest list of the three.

Three 150g trays built the same way. Chicken leads every list, the flavour animal follows at 26% with its own broth counted inside, and the printed animals add up to 65% of each recipe. The analysis is identical across all three.

There is no cereal anywhere. The vegetables are named and never above 4%, plant fibres stay unsourced, and salmon oil, chicory root and MOS close every list. What varies is the partner meat, and whether beef sits behind it.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

88 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

44.4%

Fat

27.8%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

15.6%

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

18.3%

Carbs

1.5%

Veg

4.3%

Oils

5.2%

Other

5.7%