Country Dog Premium Grain Free Tins With Country Veg: Beef review

Our Outstanding band holds both tins, and neither is ahead of the other. The typical adult wet food sits a band below them, which is what 66% of a named animal and a list you can read at a glance tend to buy.

Estimated carbohydrate comes to 14.5% of dry matter in the beef tin and 13.6% in the chicken, both a shade under the 15.8% the typical adult wet food carries. Protein converts to 39.6% and 36.5% respectively.

Ingredients, as declared: Beef (66%), Rapeseed Oil (1.5%), Dried Carrots (1.2%), Dried Potatoes (1.2%), Minerals, Prebiotic Mannan Oligosaccharides (0.01%), Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin (0.002%), Dried Cranberries (0.002%), Yucca Extract (0.002%).

Sixty six per cent of one named animal is the whole story here, and it is a properly high figure for a tin. Beef and chicken are both highly digestible and highly palatable, and because each label names one species and stops, you can see at a glance what your dog is eating.

The vegetables are real but small. Dried carrots at 1.2% appear on both tins, with dried potatoes on the beef and dried peas on the chicken, also at 1.2%. Carrots bring vitamin A and antioxidants and peas bring fibre, though at these levels they are seasoning. That is exactly why the carbohydrate figures stay low.

Rapeseed oil carries the added fat: 1.5% in the beef tin, 0.5% in the chicken one. The label names it, where an oils and fats heading would have hidden it. Saturated fat is low and it is a perfectly sound choice for a dog food, if a less generous one than a fish oil would be.

The tail of both lists is the same. Prebiotic mannan oligosaccharides at 0.01% come from yeast cell walls and encourage the useful bacteria in the gut. Glucosamine at 0.004% and chondroitin at 0.002% are a nod towards the joints, both of them naturally present in meat and cartilage anyway. Dried cranberries and yucca extract close the list at 0.002% each. Cranberry is a traditional urinary tract ingredient, and yucca is an old remedy for stool odour.

The added panel prints a dose beside every entry, with vitamin A and vitamin D3 ahead of zinc, iron, copper, manganese and iodine. Vitamin E and selenium are not on it, and calcium is not declared in the analysis. Meat itself supplies a good deal of the micronutrition in a tin this meat heavy, but those are still two gaps a fuller label would fill.

Beef at 66% with dried potatoes alongside the carrots, and the more generous pour of rapeseed oil at 1.5%. It is the lighter tin of the two at an estimated 109 kcal per 100g and the wetter at 76.0% moisture, so bowls look bigger. Protein converts to 39.6% of dry matter, the higher of the pair.

Sold in 395g cans. There is no current per kilo figure to quote against either tin.

Work from a maintenance estimate of about 840 kcal a day for a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition (110 × bodyweight^0.75). The beef then runs to about 769 grams a day and the chicken to 666 grams, the difference being how much energy each tin carries.