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McAdams Wet Foods: Finest Cuts of Free Range Chicken With Free Range Turkey review

Name: McAdams Wet Foods: Finest Cuts of Free Range Chicken With Free Range Turkey
Brand: McAdams

73.1/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Four tray recipes with very little label to wade through, all in our Excellent band. Free range chicken or turkey leads each one, and the analysis is lean and meat-forward. At 82.0% moisture these are light, watery trays by design.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who care where the animal came from; free range is named on every tray
Dogs on a lean diet, at 70 kcal per 100g
Dogs kept to one animal, on either Garden Vegetables tray
A dog that suits oily fish, with ASC certified Norwegian salmon on one tray
Households that rotate between trays built to the same pattern

Worth watching

The liquid filling out each tray is not itemised
The same analysis printed for all four recipes
Two birds in the chicken and turkey tray
Light trays, so a bigger dog gets through several a day

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

How this scores

How we score

73.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A big dog needs a lot of tray each day, so many owners pair these with a dry food.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Finest Cuts of Free Range Chicken 73.1
Finest Cuts of Free Range Chicken 73.1
Finest Cuts of Free Range Turkey 73.1
Finest Cuts of Free Range Turkey 73.1

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All four land level with one another, lifted by a protein reading that is high for anything fed from a tray.

What's in it

Free range chicken46%
Pumpkin6%
Free range chicken hearts5%Organ meat, dense in trace minerals.
Free range turkey4%A second bird.
Courgette3%
Minerals

Vitamins A and D3 with zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, dosed per kilo of a wet tray.

Chicken and turkey together, so this tray cannot serve a dog kept off either bird.

Named ingredients

Free Range Chicken 46%, Pumpkin 6%, Free Range Chicken Hearts 5%, Free Range Turkey 4%, Courgette 3%, Minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 46%, hearts 5%, turkey 4%; One bird at 55% on the plain trays
Vegetables: Pumpkin and courgette; Carrots and garden peas on the other three
Organ meat: Chicken hearts; None on the others

The busiest list of the four, and the only one with organ meat.

Free range chicken or free range turkey leads every tray at between 46% and 55%, each named and given a percentage, followed by a couple of vegetables and minerals. The liquid that makes up the rest of the tray is not itemised.

One analysis panel covers all four, so protein at 55.6% of dry matter, fat at 19.4% and 70 kcal per 100g are the same on each. What changes is the second animal, if any, and the vegetables. Calcium is not declared.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

70 kcal/100g

Protein

10%

Fat

3.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

55.6%

Fat

19.4%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

11.1%

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

55%

Added water

21.6%

Veg

Other

14.4%

Pricing & size