Canagan

Canagan Adult Tins: Shepherds Pie review

Name: Canagan Adult Tins: Shepherds Pie
Brand: Canagan

79.9/100Excellent

WetPuppyAdult

Flavour

Twelve tins built the same way, with freshly prepared named meat at 65% and the animal doing the changing. Nine sit in our Excellent band and three in Outstanding: the beef stew, the chicken and wild boar casserole and the puppy feast. For a fussy eater, that much choice on one construction is the main reason to buy.

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Our view

Likely to suit

The animal share as a real number, printed at 60% or more on every label
One land animal at a time. Beef Stew, Chicken Hotpot, Free-run Chicken, Lamb Casserole and Shepherds Pie each name a single meat
Fussy eaters. Twelve recipes to move between
Grain-avoiding dogs: sweet potato carries the starch throughout
Dogs at either end of life. There is a Puppy Feast and a Senior Feast
A joint extra in the everyday meal, from green lipped mussel on every label

Worth watching

Salmon oil is in every recipe. None will anchor a strict elimination diet
No label declares energy, and our estimates swing from 83 to 118 kcal per 100g, so portions change when you switch
Senior Feast prints 60% meat. Puppy Feast is a growth tin

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

How this scores

How we score

79.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Most tins are listed for puppies and adults of every size, with separate Puppy and Senior Feasts. Check the energy of the tin you pick, because the daily amount moves a lot between flavours.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Puppy Feast 80.8
Beef Stew 80.1
Chicken 80.0
Shepherds Pie 79.9
Venison 79.6
Senior Feast 79.4
Chicken Hotpot 79.3
Lamb Casserole 78.9
Turkey 78.9
Salmon 78.6
Free-run Chicken 78.5
Country Game 77.9

12 recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The spread from best to least is small, so the animal that suits your dog should make the choice.

What's in it

Freshly prepared lamb65%A single meat.
Sweet potato, carrots, peas, broccoli
Minerals
Green lipped musselGlucosamine at 100 mg/kg comes from here.
Salmon oilNo percentage given, so the omega 3 content is unknown.
Apple, spinach, seaweed, parsley, yucca and seven more herbs and botanicalsTrace level.

Added per kilo: vitamin D3 200 IU, zinc 25 mg, manganese 1.4 mg, iodine 0.75 mg. A short panel, every entry with a figure.

Identical ingredients and analysis to Lamb Casserole: the same recipe under two names.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Lamb (65%), Sweet Potato, Carrots, Peas, Broccoli, Minerals, Green Lipped Mussel*, Salmon Oil, Apple, Spinach, Seaweed, Parsley, Yucca, Rosehips, Nettle, Marigold, Slippery Elm, Aniseed, Peppermint, Rosemary. *Source of Glucosamine (100 mg/kg).

Against the range

Recipe: Lamb, 65%; Same as Lamb Casserole
Energy: 118 kcal per 100g; Joint highest

Pick whichever lamb tin your dog is used to.

Freshly prepared named meat is 65% of every adult tin and 60% of Senior Feast, and protein converts to between 40.8% and 51.5% of dry matter. Sweet potato leads the plant side, there is no cereal on any label, and estimated carbohydrate runs from 0.5% to 14.8% of dry matter.

Green lipped mussel and salmon oil are on all twelve, the oil always without a percentage. A long herbal tail follows, all at trace level. What changes is the animal, the fat level and the energy, from 83 to 118 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

117.7 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10.2%

Fat

8.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

40.8%

Fat

34%

Fibre

Ash

12%

Carbs

11.2%

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

65.5%

Added water

21%

Carbs

9.3%

Veg

3.6%

Oils

0.2%

Other

0.5%