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Butchers Traditional Recipes Foil: With Lamb and Peas review

Name: Butchers Traditional Recipes Foil: With Lamb and Peas
Brand: Butchers

70.3/100Excellent

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

70.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

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

Chicken30.5%Leads the list ahead of the lamb.
Lamb, including lamb broth26%
Beef8.5%A third animal.
Peas4%
Salmon oil
Plant fibresNo plant named.
Vitamins and minerals
Chicory root, MOS

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, manganese and iodine, the same dosed panel as the other two.

Beef at 8.5% sits behind the lamb.

Named ingredients

Chicken 30.5%, Lamb (Including Lamb Broth) 26%, Beef 8.5%, Peas 4%, Salmon Oil, Plant Fibres, Vitamins & Minerals, Chicory Root, MOS.

Against the range

Partner meat: Lamb, 26%; Beef or turkey on the others.
Chicken: 30.5%; 39% on the beef tray.
Vegetable: Peas at 4%; Carrots on the turkey.

For a dog that likes red meat but has grown tired of beef in the bowl.

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

18.6%

Carbs

Veg

1.4%

Oils

5.3%

Other

5.8%

Pricing & size