Canagan

Canagan Petite: Beef Stew Paté review

Name: Canagan Petite: Beef Stew Paté
Brand: Canagan

83.9/100Outstanding

WetAdult

Flavour

The brand's wet food shrunk to a 100g pot for small dogs, and all seven pâtés sit in our Outstanding band. Each leads with its named animal at 65% or more, and organic carrots, peas and apple appear across most of the range. Nothing reads like a scaled-down afterthought.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small dogs, the size the 100g pot is built around
The meat share printed, at 65% or more on all seven
A fresh portion each meal instead of an opened tin in the fridge
Dogs due a change: lamb, beef, game, cod and two poultry options
Grain-free homes

Worth watching

Salmon oil on all seven, so none is fish free
Two or more animals in Country Game, Cod with Herring, Chicken with Wild Boar and Turkey with Duck
Fat ranging from 9.3% to 43.6% of dry matter, so switching pots changes the portion
No energy figure on any label; every calorie count is our estimate

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

How this scores

How we score

83.9/100Outstanding

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for small adult dogs. The maker feeds a 3kg dog 200 to 300 grams a day, so a small dog may need two or more pots daily depending on recipe.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Small

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken 89.3
Country Game Paté 86.8
Chicken Hotpot Paté 85.5
Turkey 85.3
Lamb Casserole Paté 84.4
Beef Stew Paté 83.9
Cod 80.8
Chicken 73.1
Chicken 71.4

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

All seven are close enough that little is gained or lost by picking one over another on quality.

What's in it

Beef66%One animal, with the share printed.
Organic carrots, organic peas2% eachCertified organic.
Dried organic apple, dried spinach0.7% each
Sunflower oil, sweet potato, broccoliSunflower oil is the lighter fat.
Minerals (glucosamine sulphate), green-lipped mussel powder0.01%, 0.1%Gentle joint support over time, not a dramatic dose.
Salmon oil0.1%On every Petite label, so no recipe is fish free.
Dried seaweed, rosehip, parsley, marigold, yucca, nettle, peppermint, rosemary, aniseed

Vitamin D3, vitamin E and biotin, with zinc, manganese and copper as glycine chelates, the more absorbable form, and iodine.

Named ingredients

Beef 66%, organic carrots* 2%, organic peas* 2%, dried organic apple* 0.7%, dried spinach 0.7%, minerals 0.01% (glucosamine sulphate), sunflower oil, sweet potato, broccoli, salmon oil 0.1%, dried seaweed, rosehip, parsley, marigold, yucca, nettle, peppermint, rosemary, green lipped mussel powder 0.1%, aniseed. *From certified organic production. NL-BIO-01. EU/ non-EU agriculture.

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 47.7%; 38.2% to 47.8% across the range
Fat, dry matter: 27.3%; 9.3% on the cod up to 43.6%
Oils: Sunflower and salmon; Salmon on all seven

A single red meat at a middling richness, a safe first pot for most small dogs.

Every pâté opens with its animal and a percentage, 65% or 66%, and no label carries a cereal or a category term. Glucosamine sits inside the mineral entry, green-lipped mussel powder at 0.1%, salmon oil on all seven, and a long unquantified herb tail on each.

What varies is richness. Fat runs from 9.3% of dry matter on the cod to 43.6% on the chicken with wild boar, and protein from 38.2% to 47.8%. The cod swaps the chelated mineral panel for a sulphate one.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

97.9 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.6%

Ash

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

47.7%

Fat

27.3%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

9.1%

Carbs

13.2%

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

66.1%

Added water

17%

Carbs

6.2%

Veg

6.4%

Oils

3.6%

Other

0.6%