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Country Dog Premium Grain Free Tins With Tripe: Chicken with Tripe and Veg review

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

71.4/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

Two well built tins in our Excellent band, with tripe in the middle of the bowl: 21% on the beef and 19% on the chicken. Some dogs would sell the family silver for it. Around the tripe sits named meat, a little carrot and potato, rapeseed oil and very little else.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that go weak at the knees for tripe
Fussy eaters. Tripe is about the most persuasive thing you can open in a kitchen
Grain-avoiding homes, with carrot and potato the only plants of any size
Owners who want every meat entry itemised with its own percentage
A younger dog and an older one fed from the same tin

Worth watching

Tripe that names no animal, so neither tin can anchor an elimination diet
Chicken at 16% in the beef tin, for a dog kept off poultry
Glucosamine and chondroitin at trace level only, so keep a vet-dosed dog on its own supplement

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

How this scores

How we score

71.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. Both tins are rich, with fat above a third of dry matter, so weigh portions against the waistline.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 71.4
Beef 71.3

All two Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Both tins land together, a strong set held back only by what the labels leave unsaid: unattributed tripe, no vitamin E or selenium, no calcium.

What's in it

Chicken47%
Tripe19%From a grazing animal the label never names, so this is not a single-species tin.
Dried carrots, dried potatoes1.2% each
Minerals
Rapeseed oil0.2%A small pour; chicken brings its own fat.
Mannan oligosaccharides0.01%
Glucosamine, chondroitin0.004%, 0.002%Trace amounts.
Dried cranberries, yucca extract0.002% each

Vitamins A and D3 with zinc, iron, copper and manganese as sulphates and iodine as calcium iodate; no vitamin E or selenium.

Named ingredients

Chicken (47%), Tripe (19%), Dried Carrots (1.2%), Dried Potatoes (1.2%), Minerals, Rapeseed Oil (0.2%), Prebiotic Mannan Oligosaccharides (0.01%), Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin (0.002%), Dried Cranberries (0.002%), Yucca Extract (0.002%).

Against the range

Animals on the label: Chicken and tripe; The beef tin adds chicken at 16%.
Protein, dry matter: 40.0%; 38.5% in the beef.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 10.0%; 13.5% in the beef.

The simpler of the two, and the higher in protein.

Named meat and tripe add up to 66% of each tin, with every meat entry carrying its own percentage. The plant side is slight: dried carrots and dried potatoes at 1.2% each. Rapeseed oil is the added fat. The tail is identical on both, from mannan oligosaccharides to yucca, and both added panels leave vitamin E and selenium off. Calcium is not declared.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

120.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

36%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

10%

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

18.8%

Carbs

1.2%

Veg

1.2%

Oils

0.2%

Other

12.6%