Canagan

Canagan Petite: Cod with Herring Paté review

Name: Canagan Petite: Cod with Herring Paté
Brand: Canagan

80.8/100Outstanding

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

80.8/100Outstanding

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceExcellent

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

Cod

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

MSC cod61%From an MSC certified fishery.
MSC herring4%
Organic carrots, organic peas2% eachCertified organic.
Sunflower oil
Dried organic apple, dried spinach0.7% each
Minerals (glucosamine sulphate), green-lipped mussel powder0.01%, 0.1%Gentle joint support over time, not a dramatic dose.
Salmon oil, sweet potato, broccoli
Dried seaweed, rosehip, parsley, marigold, yucca, nettle, peppermint, rosemary, aniseed

A different panel from the rest: vitamin A, vitamin E and biotin, with zinc, manganese and copper as sulphates, and iodine.

Ash at 18.6% of dry matter and carbohydrate at 26.0%, both well clear of the rest of the range.

Named ingredients

MSC Cod* 61%, MSC Herring* 4%, organic carrots 2%, organic peas 2%, sunflower oil, organic dried apple 0.7%, dried spinach 0.7%, minerals 0.01% (glucosamine sulphate), salmon oil, sweet potato, broccoli, green lipped mussel powder 0.1%, dried seaweed, rosehip, parsley, marigold, yucca, nettle, peppermint, rosemary, aniseed. *From an MSC certified sustainable fishery. www.msc.org, From certified organic production. NL-BIO-01. EU/ non-EU agriculture.

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 9.3%; 26.1% to 43.6% on the others
Energy: About 70 kcal per 100g, our estimate; Up to 148 on the others
Minerals: Sulphate forms; Chelates on the other six

The leanest pot by a distance; weigh it out, since portions run largest.

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

69.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

9.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

Moisture

78.5%

Dry weight

Protein

44.2%

Fat

9.3%

Fibre

1.9%

Ash

18.6%

Carbs

26%

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

65.1%

Added water

17.7%

Carbs

4.9%

Veg

5.5%

Oils

6.4%

Other

0.4%