Earls

Earls Meaty Selection Trays: With Lamb, Kidney & Peas review

Name: Earls Meaty Selection Trays: With Lamb, Kidney & Peas
Brand: Earls

53/100Good

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

53/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueGood

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

Lamb

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%
Lamb18%The largest single named meat in the range.
Kidney10%Offal, named. The label does not say which animal.
Vegetables (peas)4%
Minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E plus zinc, manganese and iodine, each dosed, as on the other trays.

The ingredients are printed on the retail outer, not on the tray itself.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives (48%, of which Lamb 18%, Kidney 10%), Vegetables (Peas 4%), Minerals [on retail outer only]

Against the range

Named meat: Lamb 18%, kidney 10%; 15% is the next largest single share.
Protein, dry matter: 40.0%; 47.1% on the beef and chicken trays.
Calories: 84 kcal per 100g, our estimate; 77 kcal declared on two trays.

The strongest tray here on our scoring, and the one that names the most of its meat.

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

84.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

25%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

12.5%

Carbs

20%

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

13.9%

Other

6.9%

Pricing & size