Chappie Wet Food: Original review

1. Original 50.4
2. With Chicken 39.1

Two recipes across Good and Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Both sit behind the typical wet food because the bulk of each is cereal, with fish and chicken for flavour and body.

• Fish and fish derivatives14% white fishA category covering any fish and any part of one; the 14% is the part you can hold on to.
• CerealsNothing named at all, and the bulk of the loaf.
• Meat and animal derivatives4% chickenUnnamed beyond the chicken.
• Oils and fats0.3% sunflower oilSunflower is a decent oil, a natural source of vitamin E. The rest of the heading gives no clue.
• Minerals
• HerbsUnnamed.

Vitamins A and D3 with iodine, copper, iron and zinc, dosed per kilo.

Cereals

Nothing named

Cooked rice at 4% named in the other.

Energy

118 kcal per 100g

113 in the Chicken & Rice.

Vitamin A

7805 IU

8697 IU in the Chicken & Rice.

The plain can and the denser of the two, and it scores the higher.

Both cans share one construction and one declared analysis. Fish and fish derivatives lead with white fish at 14%, then cereals. Meat and animal derivatives with chicken at 4% follow, then oils and fats naming sunflower oil at 0.3%, minerals and unnamed herbs.

At 71.0% moisture this is a denser loaf than most wet food, and cereal fills the difference. What varies is the rice named in one can, the energy and the added panel.

Price per kilo

£3.15 (RRP)

Pack

412 g can, sold singly (Jollyes) and as 12 × 412 g (petshop.co.uk, pet-supermarket.co.uk). pet-supermarket.co.uk's Feeding Guide text also references a **1.26 kg** can that none of the three retailers actually lists.

A 15kg dog eats (our estimate)

685 to 840 g a day, 765 in the middle

Cost per day, 15kg dog

£2.41

Denser than most wet food, so a 15kg dog needs a smaller daily weight than the can count suggests.

Budget end of the market for a wet food, though the analysis is modest for the money.