Orlando Premium Pate: Chicken & Turkey review

All three flavours sit in our Average band, while the typical adult wet food lands in our Excellent band. Labelling explains the distance, since protein and processing reads Average because so little of the recipe is named, with transparency at Good. The nutrition is not the problem: nutritional balance reads Outstanding and the analysis itself is perfectly respectable for a pate.

Nothing here reads as a warning. Fed to a dog that enjoys it and has no special dietary rules to follow, what you are giving up is the label's openness, not the meat in the bowl.

Ingredients, as declared: Meat and Animal Derivatives (4% Chicken, 4% Turkey), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin, Minerals.

The working label is three entries long: meat and animal derivatives with two meats named at 4% each, derivatives of vegetable origin, and minerals. Category terms like these are legally defined and entirely safe, but each one describes a type of ingredient, not a particular one. Beyond the 8% it names, the label cannot tell you which animals or plants are actually in the pot.

On the label, the analysis does most of the talking, and it speaks well. Protein converts to 55.3% of dry matter and fat to 23.7%, with carbohydrate estimated at 11.0% against the 15.8% typical for a wet adult food. Whatever sits inside the derivatives category, the composition that comes out is firmly meat-led.

The practical catch with category wording is consistency. A recipe declared this way can change its exact make-up between batches while the printed label stays the same. Most dogs will never notice. It matters if yours reacts to a particular species. The named 4% shares are the only fixed points.

The added extras are a short, dosed list: vitamin D3 at 200 IU, vitamin E at 100 IU, manganese at 3 mg and zinc at 20 mg. In a meat-based wet food the meat itself brings most of the micronutrition. Nothing exotic has been added here, and that suits the straightforward character of the range.

This is the all-bird pairing, with chicken and turkey each named at 4%. The derivatives category can still include other species, so treat this as a poultry-flavoured choice and not a poultry-only one. The analysis is the same as the other two flavours.

Each flavour comes in a 150g pack.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at roughly 1021 grams a day on our standard energy estimate, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75). At 150g a pack, that is about seven packs. Smaller dogs and topper bowls get through it far more slowly.