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Forthglade British Classics Complete Meal Adult: Lamb Shepherd's Pie review

Name: Forthglade British Classics Complete Meal Adult: Lamb Shepherd's Pie
Brand: Forthglade

75.8/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Three Sunday favourites turned into single-animal wet meals, all in our Excellent band. What sets the range apart is how plainly the label is written: one meat at 75%, a percentage against every vegetable, and an additive panel with a figure beside every entry. Few wet foods make an exclusion diet this easy.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs held to a single animal. Nothing else animal appears on any of the three labels
Grain-avoiding homes, with potato, peas and parsnip carrying the small starch share
Owners who like additives dosed in print, vitamin A at 2,500 IU and zinc at 50 mg per kilo among them
Adult dogs of every build, toy to giant, on one recipe
Dogs that never drink enough, at 70.0% moisture

Worth watching

Dried vegetables printed twice. The chicken's dried potato reads 3% dry and 12% rehydrated, the same ingredient
Lamb Shepherd's Pie at 21.7% ash in dry matter, well above its siblings
Calorie figures that are our estimate, not declared

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

How this scores

How we score

75.8/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The energy figures are estimates, so treat the portion as a starting point and adjust to your dog's condition.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Hearty Turkey Stew 78.9
Chicken Family Lunch 77.1
Lamb Shepherd's Pie 75.8

All three Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

One build, three recipes, finishing level with each other, and the turkey edges ahead on protein and processing.

What's in it

Lamb75%The only animal on the label, and likely the source of the extra bone and ash.
Broccoli, peas2% eachBroccoli appears in no other recipe here.
Dried potato1.5% (equivalent to 6%)
Dried carrots0.5% (equivalent to 4%)
Minerals
Linseed oil0.5%
Dried herbs: parsley, rosemary, nettle, camomile0.12%
Chicory root extract, yucca extract0.05%, 0.005%

Zinc, iron and copper as glycine chelates, which usually absorb better than plain salts, with vitamins A, D3 and E all dosed.

Ash declared at 6.5%, or 21.7% of dry matter: the most mineral-heavy recipe in the range.

Named ingredients

Lamb Shepards Pie - Lamb (75%)*, Broccoli (2%)*, Peas (2%)*, Dried Potato (1.5%, equivalent to 6%)*, Dried Carrots (0.5%, equivalent to 4%)*, Minerals, Linseed Oil (0.5%)*, Dried Herbs (Parsley, Rosemary, Nettle, Camomile) (0.12%)*, Chicory Root Extract (0.05%)*, Yucca Extract (0.005%)*. *Natural ingredient

Against the range

Carbohydrate, dry matter: 14.3%; Lowest; the others are 22.7% and 24.3%.
Ash, dry matter: 21.7%; 10.0% and 13.3% on the others.
Energy: 120 kcal per 100g, estimated; Lightest of the three.

The lowest-carbohydrate choice in the range, carrying much more mineral matter than its siblings.

Each recipe is 75% of one named meat, and nothing else animal appears on the label; even the oil is linseed. No cereal anywhere. Every vegetable carries a percentage, and the dried ones are given twice, dry and rehydrated, so the plant share is larger than a quick read suggests.

The same herb blend, chicory root extract, yucca extract and dosed additive panel close all three. Moisture is 70.0% throughout. What moves is the vegetables and the ash: 10.0% of dry matter on the chicken, 13.3% on the turkey and 21.7% on the lamb.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

119.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.7%

Ash

6.5%

Moisture

70%

Dry weight

Protein

35%

Fat

26.7%

Fibre

2.3%

Ash

21.7%

Carbs

14.3%

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

75%

Added water

11%

Carbs

3.5%

Veg

2.5%

Oils

0.5%

Other

7.5%