Exe Valley

Exe Valley Wet Feed: Turkey Sweet Potato & Vegetable review

Name: Exe Valley Wet Feed: Turkey Sweet Potato & Vegetable
Brand: Exe Valley

79.3/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Three tins on one plan, each built round a single named animal at about two thirds of the tin, all in our Excellent band. Chicken, lamb and turkey each get a tin to themselves. Nothing from a second animal appears in any of them.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion diets: one named animal per tin and no other animal source
Owners who want the vegetables spelled out, with fresh-weight equivalents printed
Grain-free homes, as none of the three carries cereal
Working and active dogs, with fat between 36.5% and 40.4% of dry matter
A change of animal now and then on the same underlying recipe

Worth watching

Fat at 40.4% of dry matter in the turkey and 40.0% in the lamb, so portion carefully for a dog that gains easily
Rapeseed oil only, so no marine oil in any tin
No calcium declared, and the calorie figures are our estimates

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

How this scores

How we score

79.3/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of any size. The daily amount is our rough estimate, so check it against your dog's waistline over the first fortnight.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Chicken 79.9
Turkey Sweet Potato 79.3
Lamb 76.2

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

No one tin is better made than the others; a high animal share and very low carbohydrate hold all three in the middle of a strong shelf.

What's in it

Turkey66%
Rapeseed oil2.5%The only added fat, a sound plant oil with none of the long-chain omega 3 of fish oil.
Dried sweet potatoes, dried carrots1%, 0.5%Printed with the fresh weight they began as, 4% each.
Dried peas, broccoli
Dried herbs: oregano, rosemary, sage0.5%Named, not lumped.
Yeast cell wall, dried seaweed0.01%, 0.006%A source of MOS and beta glucans.
Glucosamine, chondroitin sulphate0.004%, 0.002%Support for a good dinner; these levels do not treat a diagnosed joint problem.
Yucca, cranberry and yeast extracts0.002% down to 0.001%

Vitamins A and D3, with zinc at 24mg, iron, copper, manganese and iodine per kilo, all printed.

Named ingredients

Turkey (66%), Rapeseed Oil (2.5%), Dried Sweet Potatoes (1% equivalent to 4% Sweet Potatoes), Dried Carrots (0.5% equivalent to 4% Carrots), Dried Peas (0.3% equivalent to 1% Peas), Broccoli (1%), Dried Herbs (Oregano, Rosemary and Sage) (0.5%), Yeast Cell Wall (a natural source of MOS and Beta Glucans) (0.01%), Dried Seaweed (Ascophyllum Nodosum) (0.006%), Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.002%), Yucca Extract (0.002%), Cranberry Extract (0.002%), Yeast Extract (0.001%)

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 40.4%; 36.5% on the chicken.
Energy: About 131 kcal per 100g; The most energy dense of the three.

Smallest portions in the range, which suits a little dog or one that eats little and often.

Each tin is one named animal at 65% to 67%, and nothing else in any recipe comes from an animal. The vegetables are declared dried, with their fresh equivalents beside them, and a named herb blend and a short, dosed tail follow. Rapeseed oil is the only added fat.

Little starch is left: carbohydrate runs from 5.0% to 7.8% of dry matter against a wet typical of 15.8%. Protein spans 40.0% to 44.2% and fat 36.5% to 40.4%, rich by wet-food standards.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

131.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10.5%

Fat

10.5%

Fibre

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

74%

Dry weight

Protein

40.4%

Fat

40.4%

Fibre

3.8%

Ash

9.6%

Carbs

5.8%

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

66%

Added water

18%

Carbs

9.5%

Veg

3.5%

Oils

2.5%

Other

0.5%