Earls

Earls Meaty Selection Trays: With Chicken, Ham & Vegetables review

Name: Earls Meaty Selection Trays: With Chicken, Ham & Vegetables
Brand: Earls

43.9/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

Four everyday tray dinners, three in our Average band and the lamb and kidney tray a step up in Good. The analysis is leaner and less starchy than the labelling suggests. What holds the range back is how little of the 48% meat and animal derivatives each tray names, and there is nothing troubling in the tray itself.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Houses with several hungry dogs on wet food
Adults of any size, toy to giant, on the same tray
Some named meat: beef and chicken at 15% each on one tray, lamb at 18% with kidney at 10% on another
Grain-free feeding. No cereal is named on any of the four
Big eaters, as a generous serving of these light trays still looks like a sensible meal
A dog that likes poultry next to one that prefers red meat

Worth watching

Only part of the meat and animal derivatives is named, so none of the four can carry an elimination diet
Vegetables declared as a group, with only the carrots or peas given a figure
Unnamed antioxidants on three of the four lists

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

How this scores

How we score

43.9/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. Portions are large because the trays are light, so weigh the first few meals against your dog's waistline.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Lamb 53.0
With Beef 48.6
With Chicken 43.9
With Turkey 42.8

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

The lamb and kidney tray pulls ahead of the other three, and the gap to a typical wet food comes almost entirely from what the label leaves unnamed.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives48%Only part of the total is named.
Chicken15%
Ham5%Puts pork on the label, the only cured meat in the range.
Vegetables (carrots)4%
Minerals
AntioxidantsNot named.

The range's shared panel: vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, manganese and iodine, all dosed.

Ham means pork. Skip this tray in a house avoiding it.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives 48% (Including 15% Chicken, 5% Ham), Vegetables (4% Carrots), Minerals, Antioxidants.

Against the range

Named meat: Chicken 15%, ham 5%; No other tray carries a cured meat.
Protein, dry matter: 47.1%; Level with the beef tray; 40.0% on the other two.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 10.5% (estimate); 20.0% on lamb and turkey.

Same strong analysis as the beef tray, with pork the one thing to check.

Every tray opens on meat and animal derivatives at 48%, a legal catch-all, with part of that total named on each label. Vegetables come next at 4%, then minerals. No cereal is named on any of the four lists.

The added vitamin and mineral panel is identical across the range, every entry dosed. Three lists end with antioxidants that are not named. What varies is the named meat inside the 48% and the analysis: the beef and chicken trays read 47.1% protein in dry matter, the lamb and turkey trays 40.0%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

77 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

Moisture

83%

Dry weight

Protein

47.1%

Fat

29.4%

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

11.8%

Carbs

10.5%

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

48%

Added water

31.2%

Veg

11.6%

Other

9.2%

Pricing & size