Gentle

Gentle Tinned: Venison with Buckwheat review

Name: Gentle Tinned: Venison with Buckwheat
Brand: Gentle

77/100Excellent

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

77/100Excellent

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

Venison

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

Venison meat: muscle meat, lungs, necks93%64.5% muscle meat, 26% lungs and 9.5% necks.
Buckwheat5%A seed, not a grain.
Cranberries1%
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

Venison Meat (93%) (consisting of : 64.5% muscle meat, 26% lungs, 9.5% necks), Buckwheat (5%), Cranberries (1%), Added vitamins and minerals (1%)

Against the range

Meat: 93% venison; Highest in the range.
Ash, dry matter: 4.8%; Lowest of the four.
Energy: 118 kcal per 100g; The most concentrated tin.

Almost all animal, and the shortest list here.

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

118.3 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

11.4%

Fat

7.2%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

1.2%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

45.6%

Fat

28.8%

Fibre

1.2%

Ash

4.8%

Carbs

19.6%

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

93%

Carbs

Other

Pricing & size