Earls

Earls Tender Paté: With Chicken review

Name: Earls Tender Paté: With Chicken
Brand: Earls

50.4/100Good

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

50.4/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

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

Chicken

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 derivatives60%Chicken named as 4% of it.
Minerals
Oils and fats0.2% fish oilReal omega 3, named inside a category.
Various sugars
Derivatives of vegetable origin0.1% chicoryThe usual source of prebiotic fibre.

Vitamin D3 at 140 iu, vitamin E, zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, all dosed.

Fish oil is on this tray, so a dog avoiding fish is better on the beef.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives 60% (Including 4% Chicken), Minerals, Oils and Fats (0.2% Fish Oil), Various Sugars, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.1% Chicory).

Against the range

Meat: 60%, 4% chicken; 55% on the beef.
Named extras: Fish oil, chicory; None on the beef.
Energy: 87 kcal per 100g, declared; 83, estimated, on the beef.

The fuller recipe, and the two named extras are why it reads stronger.

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

87 kcal/100g

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

60%

Added water

24%

Carbs

6.7%

Oils

3.5%

Other

5.8%

Pricing & size