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

Name: Country Dog Premium Grain Free Tins With Country Veg: Chicken
Brand: Country Dog

78.9/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

About as short as a wet label gets: one named animal at 66% of the tin, a little dried veg, rapeseed oil, and trace extras. Beef and chicken, both fed to adults and older dogs, and both in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept to one meat. Each label names a single species
Grain-avoiding dogs, with carrots and potatoes or peas the only plants of any size
Owners who want a printed meat figure
Older dogs as well as adults
A smaller bowl that still carries calories, from the chicken tin at an estimated 126 kcal per 100g

Worth watching

Glucosamine and chondroitin with no source given; ask the maker before a true elimination trial
No vitamin E or selenium on either added panel, and no calcium figure
The chicken tin is the richer one, worth knowing for a dog watching its weight

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

How this scores

How we score

78.9/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. The two tins carry different energy, so recheck the daily amount when switching between them.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 78.9
Beef 78.4

All two Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Neither tin is ahead of the other, and both clear the typical wet food on the strength of 66% of a named animal and a list you can read at a glance.

What's in it

Chicken66%The only animal on the label.
Dried carrots, dried peas1.2% eachPeas bring a little fibre.
Minerals
Rapeseed oil0.5%Less than the beef tin, yet this is the fattier recipe.
Prebiotic mannan oligosaccharides0.01%From yeast cell walls, for the useful gut bacteria.
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.004%, 0.002%A nod to the joints, not a working dose. No source is given.
Dried cranberries, yucca extract0.002% each

Vitamins A and D3 with zinc, iron, copper, manganese and iodine, each dosed in print; vitamin E and selenium are not on the panel.

Named ingredients

Chicken (66%), Dried Carrots (1.2%), Dried Peas (1.2%), Minerals, Rapeseed Oil (0.5%), Prebiotic Mannan Oligosaccharides (0.01%), Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin (0.002%), Dried Cranberries (0.002%), Yucca Extract (0.002%).

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 36.5%; 31.3% in the beef
Energy: An estimated 126 kcal per 100g; 109 in the beef
Vegetables: Carrots and peas; Carrots and potatoes in the beef

Good for a hard keeper, less so for a dog on a diet.

Both tins put one named animal at 66% and stop there, with no second species on either label. Dried carrots at 1.2% sit on both, and rapeseed oil is named as the fat. The tail is identical: mannan oligosaccharides, a token glucosamine and chondroitin pair, cranberries and yucca.

What varies is the second vegetable, potatoes in the beef and peas in the chicken, and the energy. The chicken tin is much the richer, with fat at 36.5% of dry matter against 31.3%. Calcium is not declared on either.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

126.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

9.5%

Fat

9.5%

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

74%

Dry weight

Protein

36.5%

Fat

36.5%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.6%

Carbs

13.6%

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%

Added water

18.6%

Carbs

1.2%

Veg

1.2%

Oils

0.5%

Other

12.5%