Earls

Earls Tender Paté: With Beef review

Name: Earls Tender Paté: With Beef
Brand: Earls

48.7/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

A smooth paté in a 300 g foil tray, with beef or chicken, built to be spooned out. The chicken sits in our Good band and the beef one step back in Average. Only 4% of the meat in each is named, and nothing in either tray is doing anything wrong.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that find chunks and jelly hard work
Feeding more than one dog from a single tray
Any adult build, toy breeds and giants alike
A little fish oil, printed at 0.2% on the chicken tray
A spoonful through a dry meal to get a fussy eater started

Worth watching

The named animal is 4% of each tray; a category term covers the rest of the meat
Various sugars on both lists, with no figure
No antioxidant or preservative named on either tray

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

How this scores

How we score

48.7/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog would need over three trays a day as its whole diet, so these suit a part of the meal better.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Chicken 50.4
With Beef 48.7

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

The category wording on the meat holds both trays short of the wet-food middle; the two named extras lift the chicken a band above the beef.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives55%Beef named as 4% of it. The rest is a legal catch-all that can move between batches.
Minerals
Various sugarsThere because dogs enjoy it; no amount given.

Vitamin D3, vitamin E, zinc, manganese at 6 mg, copper and iodine, all dosed.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives 55% (Including 4% Beef), Minerals, Various Sugars.

Against the range

Meat: 55%, 4% beef; 60%, 4% chicken on the other tray.
Added oil: None; all the fat is from the meat; Fish oil at 0.2% on the chicken.
Energy: 83 kcal per 100g, our estimate; 87 declared on the chicken.

The shorter list, and the one for a dog kept off fish.

Both trays are built on meat and animal derivatives, 55% on the beef and 60% on the chicken, with 4% named as the animal on the front. Various sugars appear on both without a figure. The analysis is identical: protein at 47.4% of dry matter, fat at 26.3% and estimated carbohydrate at 13.2%. Both added panels are fully dosed; the chicken adds fish oil and chicory.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

82.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

47.4%

Fat

26.3%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

10.5%

Carbs

13.2%

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

55%

Added water

27%

Carbs

9.8%

Other

8.2%

Pricing & size