Gentle

Gentle Tinned: Pheasant with Carrots review

Name: Gentle Tinned: Pheasant with Carrots
Brand: Gentle

77.4/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Four single-animal tins, all in our Excellent band, and few wet labels are this open about what goes in. The animal share is itemised down to the hearts, lungs and stomachs, so you can see a whole-animal recipe for what it is. Venison reaches 93% of its tin.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on one animal only. Nothing else of animal origin is on any of the four lists
Owners who read past the headline percentage
Dogs that have worked through the usual meats: goat, pheasant and venison are all here
Cereal-free homes, with millet in the duck tin and nowhere else
Dogs that eat better when dinner smells unfamiliar

Worth watching

Goat at 50% meat, with fresh potatoes at 25% and carrots at 22% making up the difference
Millet at 3% in the duck tin, the one to skip for a dog that must stay off grain
A light goat tin at an estimated 68 kcal per 100g, so a bigger dog needs a lot of it

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

How this scores

How we score

77.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Daily amounts swing widely between tins, so check the table for the one you buy and portion to your dog's waistline.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Pheasant

The score, in context

Duck 79.6
Goat 78.1
Pheasant 77.4
Venison 77.0

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All four hold our Excellent band in a strong category, the goat getting there on the lightest meat share in the range.

What's in it

Pheasant meat: muscle meat, stomachs, hearts, necks and wing bones84%60% muscle meat, 17% stomachs, 16% hearts and 7% necks and wing bones.
Fresh carrots9%
Buckwheat, amaranth2% eachSeeds, not cereal grains, so the tin stays grain free.
Prunes2%
Added vitamins and minerals1%

Vitamin D3 and E with zinc, manganese, copper and potassium iodide, each dosed per kilo; no added vitamin A.

Named ingredients

Pheasant Meat (84%) (consisting of : 60% muscle meat, 17% stomachs, 16% hearts, 7% necks/wing bones), Fresh Carrots (9%), Buckwheat (2%), Amaranth (2%), Prunes (2%), Added vitamins and minerals (1%)

Against the range

Meat: 84% pheasant; Second only to the venison.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 22.9%; Highest of the four; duck is 15.6%.
Hearts: 16% of the meat; The largest heart share in the range.

A game bird tin for a dog bored of chicken, heavy on heart.

Each tin names one animal and breaks it into its parts: muscle meat, organs and necks, each with a percentage. The animal share runs from 50% in the goat to 93% in the venison, and the rest is fresh vegetables, a little fruit and a seed or grain.

Millet in the duck tin is the only true cereal; buckwheat and amaranth are seeds. The added panel is identical on all four and every entry is dosed, with no added vitamin A.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

104.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

9.5%

Fat

6.1%

Fibre

0.6%

Ash

2.3%

Moisture

76%

Dry weight

Protein

39.6%

Fat

25.4%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

9.6%

Carbs

22.9%

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

84%

Carbs

Veg

Other

Pricing & size