Essential Foods

Essential Foods Essential Kingdom Living Pate review

Name: Essential Foods Essential Kingdom Living Pate
Brand: Essential Foods

74.5/100Excellent

WetAdult

A single-family pate, and a good one: wild boar leads, pork hearts and trachea follow, and the whole animal share is declared cut by cut. That keeps every meat on the label within one family, which is the reason to buy it. Starch barely features, and the tin lands in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that have reacted to chicken, beef, lamb or fish. None of them appears on this label
Owners who read percentages, as the boar and both pork cuts each print one
Grain-avoiding homes, with a little pea flour the only starch
Squeamish owners who still want offal in the bowl, since the hearts and trachea come blended into a smooth pate
Dogs that are slow at the water bowl. A little over three quarters of the tin is moisture

Worth watching

Boar and pork are the same animal family, so this tin cannot separate one from the other
Lignocellulose, a purified plant fibre that gives the pate body and adds no food value
One 400 g tin size, which leaves a toy or small dog with an opened tin to keep chilled

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

How this scores

How we score

74.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. For a small dog, check you can get through an opened 400 g tin while it is still fresh in the fridge.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Wild Boar

The score, in context

Essential Kingdom Living Pate 74.5

All one Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A meat-led tin that earns its place on what goes into it, and sits squarely in the middle of a strong wet-food shelf.

What's in it

Wild boar meat26%The lead meat, and one most dogs will never have eaten.
Pork hearts20%Dense muscle meat, naturally rich in taurine.
Pork trachea19%Cartilage, the source of the small natural glucosamine supply in any meat-based food.
Pea flour2%From roasted peas. At this level it binds the pate.
Cranberry, blueberry, goji berry, blackberry1% eachThey finish the tin more than they feed the dog.
LignocelluloseA purified plant fibre for bulk and structure, close to calorie free. Honestly declared, though a manufacturing aid.
Calcium carbonateBrings calcium to 0.91% of dry matter, comfortable for an adult.
Kelp, green tea, marigold, ginger, spirulina0.2% each

A short panel with every entry dosed: vitamin A at 800 IU, vitamin D3 at 250 IU, then zinc, iron, manganese and iodine printed per kilo.

Boar and pork are one animal family, so this tin cannot tell the two apart in an elimination trial.

Named ingredients

Wild boar meat (26%), pork hearts (20%), pork trachea (19%), 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

Every animal on the label comes from the pig family, and each of the three cuts carries its own percentage, 65% of the tin between them. Pea flour at 2% is the only starch. Protein converts to 40.9% of dry matter and fat to 31.8%.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

109 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.8%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

78%

Dry weight

Protein

40.9%

Fat

31.8%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

12.3%

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

16.8%

Carbs

Veg

0.4%

Other

15.8%

Pricing & size