Morrisons

Morrisons Chief Pate Trays 150g: With Beef review

Name: Morrisons Chief Pate Trays 150g: With Beef
Brand: Morrisons

50.2/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Single-serve pate trays in beef and chicken, the beef in our Good band and the chicken a step behind in Average. Both are built on meat and animal derivatives at 60%, with only the 4% named animal held fixed. The placing comes from a label written in legal categories, not from anything odd in the tray.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Households that would sooner not cover a part-used pack and find fridge space for it
Small dogs and light eaters, as a 150g tray is close to a meal
Older dogs and sore mouths. A pate needs no chewing
Dogs kept on low starch
Alternating red meat and poultry with two trays built alike

Worth watching

Only the 4% species is fixed, so neither tray can carry an exclusion diet
Oils and fats stays a category entry
Various sugars on both labels

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

How this scores

How we score

50.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The tray suggests 750 to 1050 grams a day for a 15kg adult, so a bigger dog gets through a lot of trays.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

With Beef 50.2
With Chicken 38.5

Two recipes across Good and Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The gap to the typical wet food is measured almost entirely in what the labels decline to name; nutritional balance reads Outstanding on both.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives60%, including 4% beefOnly the beef is fixed. The rest can change with supply.
Minerals
Oils and fatsincluding 0.2% fish oilA category entry, opened up enough to name the fish oil and its omega 3.
Various sugarsAdded because dogs find sweetness hard to resist.
Derivatives of vegetable originincluding 0.1% chicoryChicory root is a prebiotic, here at a trace.

Every entry is dosed per kilo: vitamin D3 at 140 IU, vitamin E at 30 mg, zinc at 12 mg, copper at 0.5 mg, manganese at 1.0 mg and iodine at 0.3 mg.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives (60%, including 4% Beef), Minerals, Oils and Fats (0.2% Fish Oil), Various Sugars, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.1% Chicory)

Against the range

Named meat: 4% beef; 4% chicken in the other tray.
Analysis: Shared; Identical panel on the chicken.

The one to reach for in a household rotating away from poultry.

Both trays carry the same short list and the same analysis panel. The animal side is one entry, meat and animal derivatives at 60%, with the named species fixed at 4%. No grain or starch binder is listed, and carbohydrate comes to an estimated 13.2% of dry matter. Protein converts to 47.4% of dry matter. Fish oil and chicory are named inside their category entries, and various sugars close the list on both. The only change is the named meat.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

82.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

47.4%

Fat

26.3%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

10.5%

Carbs

13.2%

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

24%

Carbs

6.7%

Oils

3.5%

Other

5.8%

Pricing & size