Lifelong

Lifelong Pate Trays: With Chicken and Gourmet-core review

Name: Lifelong Pate Trays: With Chicken and Gourmet-core
Brand: Lifelong

45.2/100Average

WetPuppyAdult

Flavour

Four soft pâté trays with short labels and an analysis that is genuinely protein heavy for a wet food. All sit in our Average band. The reason is that only 4% of the animal content is named; nothing in the tray itself is thin.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that eat better from something soft and spoonable
A protein-forward bowl, at 52.6% of dry matter
Starch kept down, with carbohydrate at an estimated 8.5% of dry matter against 15.8% for a typical wet food
Dogs casual about the water bowl. The trays are four fifths moisture
Rotating flavours on one tray size and one analysis

Worth watching

Only 4% of the meat is named, which rules out an elimination diet on any of the four
The poultry tray's own list names game as its 4%
Pasta in the chicken tray, so the other three suit a grain-avoiding home better

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

How this scores

How we score

45.2/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

The chicken tray is listed for puppies, adults and seniors, the others for adults, all sizes. With only a 300 g tray, a small dog will leave some for the fridge.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

With Chicken 45.2
With Beef 42.0
With Game 42.0
With Poultry 42.0

All four Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The four read within a whisker of each other, held down by how little the label names; it is a verdict on the paperwork, not the food.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives56%Chicken named as 4% of it.
Vegetables4% carrotsA useful thing to find in a wet recipe.
Minerals
Bakery products0.5% pastaDoes little except put a cereal on the list.

Vitamin D3, vitamin E, biotin, zinc, manganese, copper and iodine; the biotin is printed in milligrams here, which reads like a slip on the pack.

Named ingredients

MEAT AND ANIMAL DERIVATIVES 56% (4% CHICKEN), VEGETABLES (4% CARROTS), MINERALS, BAKERY PRODUCTS (0.5% PASTA)

Against the range

Meat: 56%; 62% on the other three.
Plants and cereal: Carrots, pasta; None on the others.
Life stage: Puppy, adult and senior; Adult only on the others.

The one tray for a household feeding a puppy or an older dog.

Every tray is built on meat and animal derivatives, 62% on three and 56% on the chicken, with 4% pinned to a named animal and the rest unnamed. The analysis is identical across all four: protein at 52.6% of dry matter, fat at 26.3% and estimated carbohydrate at 8.5%. Only the chicken tray goes past meat and minerals, adding carrots and a little pasta. All come in one 300 g tray.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

89 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

52.6%

Fat

26.3%

Fibre

2.1%

Ash

10.5%

Carbs

8.5%

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

56%

Added water

26.4%

Carbs

Veg

8.4%

Other

4.2%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £2.70 (RRP)
Pack: 300 g trays - 20-tray (B0DFHM31VR) and 10-tray (B08GD8WPDJ) packs per the twister
A 15kg dog eats: 675 to 975 g a day, 825 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £2.23

Budget end of the market for a wet food, though you pay a little more than the analysis alone would earn.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.