Essential Foods

Essential Foods Essential Estate Living Pate review

Name: Essential Foods Essential Estate Living Pate
Brand: Essential Foods

75/100Excellent

WetAdult

A two-animal paté that says exactly what is in it: lamb, turkey and turkey hearts make 65% of the tin and nothing else with a face appears. No fish oil, no unnamed fat, no category term. For a dog that has to stay off chicken and fish, that is genuinely useful. It sits in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs avoiding chicken or fish, as neither turns up in any form
Red meat first, with lamb leading at 26%
Owners who like offal declared openly
Adult dogs of any build; the guide runs from 5 kg to 80 kg
A lighter bowl, at 104 kcal per 100g

Worth watching

Protein converts to 38.6% of dry matter, moderate for a tin this meat-led, as much of the meat's weight is water
Lignocellulose has no percentage, a milled fibre added for bulk
Carbohydrate at 18.7% of dry matter against 15.8% for typical adult wet food

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

How this scores

How we score

75/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The label asks 675 grams a day for a 15kg dog, so check how many tins that means for yours.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Essential Estate Living Pate 75.0

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Naming is what this tin does especially well, and an Excellent in wet food is the standard of the category, met in full here.

What's in it

Lamb meat26%Easily digested and highly palatable.
Turkey meat24%
Turkey hearts15%About as nutrient-dense as any part of a bird gets.
Apples, pea flour2% eachMost of the carbohydrate.
Cranberry, blueberry, goji berry, blackberry1% eachAntioxidants and a little natural sweetness.
LignocellulosePurified fibre, bulk without calories.
Calcium carbonateCalcium lands at 0.91% of dry matter, comfortable for an adult.
Kelp, green tea, marigold, ginger, spirulina0.2% eachA herbal signature.

Vitamins A and D3 with zinc, iron, manganese and iodine, each dosed in full.

Named ingredients

Lamb meat (26%), turkey meat (24%), turkey hearts (15%), apples (2%), pea flour (2%), cranberry (1%), blueberry (1%), goji berry (1%), blackberry (1%), lignocellulose, calcium carbonate, kelp (0.2%), green tea (0.2%), marigold (0.2%), ginger (0.2%), spirulina (0.2%).

Against the range

One paté built on two animals. Lamb at 26%, turkey at 24% and turkey hearts at 15% make 65% of the tin, and no third animal appears anywhere, not even as an oil. Apples and pea flour at 2% each are the working plants, and every entry but two carries a figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

103.5 kcal/100g

Protein

8.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

2.6%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

38.6%

Fat

27.3%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

11.8%

Carbs

18.7%

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

65%

Added water

15.6%

Carbs

Veg

2.4%

Other

15%

Pricing & size