Encore

Encore Trays Paté: With Beef & Vegetables review

Name: Encore Trays Paté: With Beef & Vegetables
Brand: Encore

64.4/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Meat-dense paté trays with a lightly described label. Between the poultry, the pork, the trout and the animal in the name, each tray is overwhelmingly animal, and very few wet foods read as meaty. All three sit in our Good band, the chicken tray a little ahead.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that do best on calories from meat, with protein at 55.6% of dry matter
A dog new to pork, which is on all three trays
Picky eaters and fast ones. Paté warms, mashes and mixes through a bowl without a fight
Cereal-free households; carrots and peas at 4% each are the only plants
A change of flavour across beef, chicken and lamb in one recipe shape

Worth watching

Poultry as a category on the beef and lamb trays, free to change between batches
Trout on all three, so none is fish free
Beef and lamb at 4% each, well behind the poultry and pork

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

How this scores

How we score

64.4/100Good

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyAverage

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Energy is our estimate at around 82 kcal per 100g, so portions look generous next to a dry bowl; weigh the first week.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Chicken 69.6
With Beef 64.4
With Lamb 64.4

All three Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The analysis is genuinely strong; what pulls against it is everything the label declines to say, from the poultry category to the undosed panel.

What's in it

PoultryUnnamed species, and the largest share.
PorkStill uncommon in dog food, so a genuinely novel meat for many dogs.
Carrots4%Vitamin A and a little soluble fibre.
Peas4%
Beef4%The flavour note more than the substance.
TroutNo percentage, and fish on every tray.
Vitamins and mineralsOne phrase, nothing dosed.

Vitamins and minerals are named as a single phrase with no quantities, and the product page states there are no other additives.

Poultry is a category, so it can be chicken, turkey, duck or goose and can change between batches.

Named ingredients

Poultry, Pork, Carrots 4%, Peas 4%, Beef 4%, Trout, Vitamins & Minerals.

Against the range

Lead meat: Poultry, unnamed; Chicken at 31% leads the chicken tray.
Title animal: Beef at 4%; Lamb at 4% on the lamb tray.
Analysis: Same as the others; All three declare the same panel.

A beef-flavoured tray built mostly on poultry and pork.

All three trays share one shape: poultry or chicken and pork up front, carrots and peas at 4% each, then the named animal, trout and an undosed vitamin and mineral line. Moisture is 82%. Once the water is out, protein converts to 55.6% of dry matter, fat to 30.6% and carbohydrate to nothing measurable.

What varies is how the meat is named. The beef and lamb trays lead with poultry as a category and declare their title animal at 4%; the chicken tray leads with chicken at 31% and names turkey.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

81.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.2%

Ash

2.3%

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

55.6%

Fat

30.6%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

12.8%

Carbs

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

71.3%

Added water

17%

Carbs

Veg

Other

3.7%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £6.00 (RRP)
Pack: 150g tray - the page states "This product is only available as part of a multipack". Multipacks: Pate Selection Wet Dog Food in 5 x 150g
A 15kg dog eats (our estimate): 540 to 660 g a day, 600 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £3.60

Middle of the market for a wet food, and good value for a tray this meaty.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.