Langham's

Langham's Grain Free Pate: Beef & Chicken Pate review

Name: Langham's Grain Free Pate: Beef & Chicken Pate
Brand: Langham's

77/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

A smooth pate with named meat at 60% of every tray, either one animal or two at 30% each. The rest is a small grain-free base, every figure printed, and a tail of trace extracts. An easy tray to put in front of a fussy dog.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want the animal share pinned down: 60% named on every tray
Dogs that must stay clear of grain, with potato carrying all the starch
One animal protein, on the Chicken or Turkey trays
Older dogs and fussy eaters who prefer a soft pate to chunks in jelly
Small dogs and light eaters, with trays from 90g up to 395g
Swapping flavours without changing the recipe underneath

Worth watching

Salmon oil on all four labels, so none suits a fish-avoiding dog
The Beef & Chicken and Salmon & Chicken pair two animals, so neither can anchor an elimination diet
D xylose, a simple plant sugar, on every list with no quantity

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

How this scores

How we score

77/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults; the Salmon & Chicken is listed for small and medium dogs. Check which tray sizes each flavour comes in before choosing, as not every one is sold in all three.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Salmon 80.0
Beef 77.0
Chicken Pate 77.0
Turkey Pate 76.9

Four recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A named-meat headline and a base printed down to the carrot put all four in strong company, with the salmon and chicken a step ahead.

What's in it

Beef30%
Chicken30%The only red meat and poultry pairing in the range.
Dried potato4%With the potato starch, the whole of the starch. No grain.
Dried peas, minerals1.5% peas
Dried carrot, potato starch0.65% carrotThe starch is there to bind, not to fill.
Sunflower oil, salmon oil0.2% eachAt 0.2% the salmon oil is seasoning, not a working dose. It still means fish.
D xyloseA simple plant sugar, with no quantity given.
Tomato, chicory, yucca, blackcurrant, citrus, rosemary, pomegranateChicory for inulin, rosemary as an antioxidant. All traces.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc at 25mg, iron at 20mg and manganese at 3.75mg per kilo; copper and iodine come under the general minerals entry.

Named ingredients

Grain Free Beef and Chicken: Beef (30%), Chicken (30%), Dried Potato (4%), Dried Peas (1.5%), Minerals, Dried Carrot (0.65%), Potato Starch, Sunflower Oil (0.2%), Salmon Oil (0.2%), D Xylose, Dried Tomato, Chicory Extract, Yucca Extract, Blackcurrant Extract, Citrus Extract, Dried Rosemary, Dried Pomegranate.

Against the range

Meat: Beef 30%, chicken 30%; Chicken or turkey alone, or salmon with chicken
Fat, dry matter: 28.0%; 32.0% to 34.0% on the others
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 14.0%; 8.0% on the chicken and the salmon

The leanest tray, and the one for a dog that likes red meat with its bird.

Every tray puts 60% of its weight into named meat, one animal on its own or two at 30% each, with no meat and animal derivatives entry anywhere. Behind it sits the same small, printed base: dried potato at 4%, dried peas at 1.5%, dried carrot at 0.65%, potato starch, sunflower and salmon oils, then trace fruit and botanical extracts.

Protein converts to 40.0% of dry matter on every tray. Fat runs from 28.0% to 34.0% and carbohydrate from 8.0% to 14.0%, depending on the meat.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

117 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

3.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

40%

Fat

28%

Fibre

Ash

14%

Carbs

14%

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

60%

Added water

20.1%

Carbs

10.6%

Veg

2.4%

Oils

0.4%

Other

6.5%