Carnilove

Carnilove Pate Cans: Duck & Pheasant review

Name: Carnilove Pate Cans: Duck & Pheasant
Brand: Carnilove

76.4/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Short lists you can read on the shelf, built on animals most ranges never touch: pheasant, wild boar and reindeer sit beside turkey and lamb. Every can lands in our Excellent band or better. A can of duck and pheasant tells you it is 41% duck and 26% pheasant, so there is no guesswork about the meat.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who like a label short enough to read on the shelf
Dogs bored of the everyday meats
Grain-avoiding homes. Pea flour at 2% is the only starch on any can
Puppies, on a Turkey & Salmon can built to a growth analysis
A declared energy figure on every can, and added taurine in all five

Worth watching

Lignocellulose at 1%, a purified fibre powder doing a job we would rather see a named vegetable do
Salmon in the two Turkey & Salmon cans, one to note for a dog kept off fish
Pea flour's plant protein, which the printed protein figure cannot separate from the meat

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

How this scores

How we score

76.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, with one can built for puppies. Calcium at 0.91% of dry matter clears the large-breed puppy requirement, so the puppy can suits big pups too.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Duck

The score, in context

Turkey 84.2
Turkey 83.8
Lamb 76.5
Duck 76.4
Turkey 74.9

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

The five finish close together, with the turkey, reindeer and wild boar can and the puppy can nosing ahead.

What's in it

Duck41%
WaterDeclared in its own right, the honest way to write a wet label.
Pheasant26%Two birds you rarely see together.
Blackcurrant2%The only fruit. At this level it is flavour and colour.
Pea flour2%The only starch-side entry. Its plant protein is counted in the printed figure alongside the meat.
Lignocellulose1%Purified plant fibre: bulk with next to no calories.
Calcium carbonate0.3%Brings calcium to 0.91% of dry matter.

Vitamin D3 and E, biotin, copper, iron, iodine, manganese and zinc, all dosed, plus taurine at 800 mg a kilo.

Named ingredients

Duck (41%), water, pheasant (26%), blackcurrant (2%), pea flour (2%), lignocellulose (1%), calcium carbonate (0.3%).

Against the range

Meat: Duck 41%, pheasant 26%; The only can built on these two birds.
Fat, dry matter: 31.8%; Second only to the reindeer can at 36.4%.
Protein, dry matter: 38.6%; 36.4% to 45.5% across the five.

A good first step away from chicken for a dog that likes poultry.

Every can is two or three named animals, each with a percentage, making up just over two thirds of the contents. Then come water and a short tail: blackcurrant at 2%, pea flour at 2%, lignocellulose at 1% and calcium carbonate. Protein converts to between 36.4% and 45.5% of dry matter, and fat runs high, as a proper pâté should.

The added panel is the same on every can, taurine included, bar a higher copper dose on the puppy recipe. Fish appears only in the two turkey and salmon cans.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

107 kcal/100g

Protein

8.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

38.6%

Fat

31.8%

Fibre

1.8%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

16.4%

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

67%

Added water

27.7%

Carbs

Other

3.3%

Pricing & size