Morrisons

Morrisons Chief Tasty Chunks: In Gravy With Chicken (400g) review

Name: Morrisons Chief Tasty Chunks: In Gravy With Chicken (400g)
Brand: Morrisons

33.4/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

Morrisons' big everyday tin, as chunks in gravy or chunks in jelly, both in our Average band. The analysis reads steadier than the label suggests. What holds the score down is how little the ingredient list spells out, with category terms doing nearly all the work.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Several dogs to feed, from toy to giant, on one recipe
Dogs that like their dinner soft and saucy
Dogs that barely touch the water bowl, since roughly four fifths of each tin is moisture
Adding the dog's dinner to the supermarket trolley
A dog that has done well on it for years. Nothing here asks you to change

Worth watching

Meat and animal derivatives can be any land animal, which rules out an elimination diet
Cereals are unnamed, so the grain can change between batches
Various sugars on both lists, added for taste

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

How this scores

How we score

33.4/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceGood

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. If you are steering around one particular grain or meat, this label cannot tell you whether it is in the tin.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

In Jelly 41.2
In Gravy 33.4

All two Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Nothing in either tin is a safety concern; the category terms simply give our scoring very little to reward.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives (including 4% chicken)35%Any warm-blooded land animal, in any proportion. Chicken flavours the tin more than it fills it.
CerealsCould be wheat, maize, rice, barley or a mix.
MineralsCalcium is declared on this tin, at 1.62% of dry matter.
Various sugarsLast on the list, there for taste.

Vitamins D3 and E with iron, iodine, manganese, zinc and copper, each with a dose.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives (35%, Including 4% Chicken), Cereals, Minerals, Various Sugars

Against the range

Meat: 35% total, 4% chicken; The jelly tin names its 4% chicken but gives no total.
Energy: 71 kcal per 100g; The jelly is 77.
Vitamins: Adds vitamin E and iron; The jelly adds vitamin A instead.

The fuller label of the two, in the smaller tin.

Both tins carry the same four entries: meat and animal derivatives with chicken at 4%, cereals, minerals and various sugars. Neither the animals nor the grains are named. Protein converts to 32.4% and 32.5% of dry matter, and carbohydrate to 37.9% in the gravy and 35.0% in the jelly. The added vitamin panels are dosed but differ between the two.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

71 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

81.5%

Dry weight

Protein

32.4%

Fat

16.2%

Fibre

2.7%

Ash

10.8%

Carbs

37.9%

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

35%

Added water

16.5%

Carbs

39.7%

Other

8.8%

Pricing & size