Hero by Asda

Hero by Asda Working Dog Cans in Gravy: With Turkey review

Name: Hero by Asda Working Dog Cans in Gravy: With Turkey
Brand: Hero by Asda

42.1/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

Asda's tin for dogs that put in a day's work, in beef, chicken and turkey, all three in our Average band. The label is a short four lines of mostly category terms. What lifts it above the brand's everyday tins is the analysis, denser in protein, fat and energy.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working dogs and hard-going pets: 40.0% protein and 27.5% fat in dry matter
Dogs that struggle to hold weight on a lighter wet food
Several dogs at once, with cases of 24 as well as packs of 6
Dogs that eat better wet, at 80.0% moisture
Rotating flavours on one construction

Worth watching

Only 4% is the animal on the label, with the rest of the animal content unidentified
A pet at rest can gain weight on a food built for a dog in genuine work
Cereals unnamed and various sugars on all three labels

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

How this scores

How we score

42.1/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for working adults. Check your dog's daily workload against the label's guide before ordering, since a resting dog needs far less.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

With Beef 42.1
With Chicken 42.1
With Turkey 42.1

All three Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The three tins finish level, and the recipe does more than its four-line list is prepared to admit.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives40%Turkey is 4% of the recipe; leaner than the other two. The rest is a legal category covering warm-blooded land animals, none named.
CerealsNo grain named.
Minerals
Various sugarsFor palatability.

The fullest panel in the brand, every figure printed: vitamin D3 at 199 IU and vitamin E at 20 mg, with iron, zinc, manganese, iodine and copper as sulphates and iodate.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives (40%, including 4% Turkey), Cereals, Minerals, Various Sugars

Against the range

Named animal: Turkey 4%; Beef or chicken 4% on the others.
Analysis: 40.0% protein, 27.5% fat in dry matter; Identical across the three.

A change for a dog that has had the same tin for months, with the recipe underneath unchanged.

One list across all three: meat and animal derivatives at 40% with the named animal at 4%, then cereals, minerals and various sugars. The analysis is identical, with protein at 40.0% and fat at 27.5% of dry matter, and carbohydrate estimated at 17.5%, close to the 15.8% typical of adult wet food.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

91 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

27.5%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

12.5%

Carbs

17.5%

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

40%

Added water

36%

Carbs

19.7%

Other

4.3%

Pricing & size