Orlando Chunks in Gravy: With Chicken review

Our Average band is where both of these cans finish, and the distance to the middle of the adult wet shelf, which reaches our Excellent band, is a real one. Two things drive it. The label is written almost entirely in category terms, which holds protein and processing and transparency to our Good band. Estimated carbohydrate runs at 23.0% of dry matter in the beef, pork and chicken can and 27.5% in the chicken one, where 15.8% is typical for adult wet food. Nutritional balance is the one reading to climb clear, landing in our Excellent band on both cans. None of that is a safety verdict. What it describes is how much this label is prepared to show.

Ingredients, as declared: Meat and Animal Derivatives (Including 4% Chicken), Cereals, Minerals, Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (Including Apple Extract).

The working list on both cans runs to four entries and three of them are legal category terms. Meat and animal derivatives covers the fleshy parts of any warm blooded land animal in any proportion. Cereals covers any grain. Derivatives of vegetable origin covers almost anything processed from a plant. Each can change between batches, and the printed label stays exactly as it is. The fixed points are the named meat shares, 4% each for beef, pork and chicken on one can and 4% chicken on the other.

The analysis is where the two part company. Both declare protein at 7.5%, which converts to 37.5% of dry matter, a respectable reading for a wet food. Fat is 5.0% on the beef, pork and chicken can and 4.0% on the chicken, converting to 25.0% and 20.0% of dry matter. The carbohydrate estimate moves furthest, at 23.0% and 27.5% of dry matter against a typical 15.8%, which is the cereals making themselves felt.

Apple extract is named inside the vegetable derivatives, a small piece of daylight in an otherwise unlit entry, though with no level printed beside it, it is a flavour note rather than a nutritional one.

The added panel is short, and there is a figure against every entry: vitamin D3 and vitamin E, then zinc and copper, with the doses matching across both cans. There is nothing decorative beyond it, no botanicals and no supplement tail, which is part of why the two labels read so much alike.

Chicken at 4% is the only meat named here. If beef or pork is off the menu this is the can to look at, bearing in mind that the unnamed animal content could still include either. At 4.0% fat it is the leaner can, higher on estimated carbohydrate at 27.5% of dry matter and lighter on energy at an estimated 80 kcal per 100g.

Sold in 1.2kg cans.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would eat roughly 991 grams a day of the beef, pork and chicken can, or roughly 1057 grams a day of the chicken one. That assumes about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate), and it works from our estimated energy figures. Wet food is light on calories for its weight, so the daily amount looks big in the bowl. Plenty of owners pair a can like this with a dry food.