Europa

Europa Grain Free Adult Trays: Chicken review

Name: Europa Grain Free Adult Trays: Chicken
Brand: Europa

74.4/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Two trays under one name, and they are not the same food. The chicken recipe reaches our Excellent band on a firmer analysis and an additive panel printed dose by dose. The salmon and white fish tray carries more water and less fat and settles in Good, still a straightforward meat-first meal.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Grain-avoiding households: neither tray has a cereal of any kind
Dogs that do well on chicken, as the chicken tray puts its whole 60% into one bird
Dogs kept off poultry and red meat. The fish tray holds to fish alone
Owners who read additive panels, since the chicken tray prints a figure against every vitamin and trace element
Anyone who likes to see the vegetables, with fresh-weight equivalents on the label

Worth watching

Fish oil in the chicken tray, so it is not a one-animal recipe for an elimination diet
White fish with no species named in the fish tray
Glucosamine at 0.004% and chondroitin sulphate at 0.002%: a kind gesture, short of a joint dose

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

How this scores

How we score

74.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The two trays are not interchangeable, so check which one is in the basket before you order.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 74.4
Salmon 69.8

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

The chicken tray earns the higher placing on a fuller analysis and a fully dosed additive panel, while the wetter fish tray drops a band.

What's in it

Chicken60%One bird carries the whole meat share.
Dried peas1.3%Equivalent to 4% fresh peas.
Dried sweet potato1.3%Equivalent to 4% fresh.
Dried carrots1.3%The 10% of fresh carrots that went in.
Dried basil, parsley, sage, mint, rosemaryFive herbs, each named.
Fish oil, vegetable oilFish oil is a real marine fat. Vegetable oil could be almost any plant oil, the one place the label stops short.
Fructo-oligosaccharides, yeast (MOS)0.1% eachThe prebiotic pair.
Minerals, high nucleotide yeast extract, seaweed meal
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate, cranberry, Yucca schidigera0.004% down to 0.002%Small amounts, and not a dose a vet would recognise.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and selenium, each printed with its dose; zinc and manganese come partly as amino acid chelates.

Fish oil is on the label, so this is not a single-animal tray for an elimination diet.

Named ingredients

Chicken (60%), Dried Peas (1.3% equivalent to 4% Peas), Dried Sweet Potato (1.3% equivalent to 4% Sweet Potato), Dried Carrots (1.3% equivalent to 10% Carrots), Dried Basil, Dried Parsley, Dried Sage, Dried Mint, Dried Rosemary, Fish Oil, Vegetable Oil, Fructo-oligosaccharides (Prebiotic FOS; 0.1%), Yeast (as a source of Prebiotic MOS; 0.1%), Minerals, High Nucleotide Yeast Extract (0.015%), Seaweed Meal, Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.002%), Cranberry (0.002%), Yucca Schidigera (0.002%)

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 60%; Salmon 30% and white fish 30% on the fish tray.
Moisture: 75.0%; 80.0% on the fish tray.
Fat, as fed: 5.5%; 4.5% on the fish tray.
Vitamin D3, selenium: Dosed on the panel; Not on the fish tray's panel.

The stronger tray of the two as served, and the one we rate higher.

Both trays put 60% animal content first with a percentage beside it, and both are free of cereal. Dried vegetables are shown at their dried weight and at the fresh weight they came from, so the recipe is easy to picture. The same five herbs, fish oil and vegetable oil, a prebiotic pair at 0.1% each and a small joint pair close both labels.

What varies is the meat and the water. The chicken tray declares 75.0% moisture and the fish tray 80.0%, and neither label gives a calcium figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

99.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11.5%

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

1.5%

Ash

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

46%

Fat

22%

Fibre

Ash

12%

Carbs

14%

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

12.3%

Veg

1.7%

Oils

0.1%

Other

Pricing & size