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Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Puppy Meaty Selection in Gravy review

Name: Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Puppy Meaty Selection in Gravy
Brand: Pets at Home

40.6/100Average

WetPuppy

An Average puppy tray that reads better once the water is out than it does on the list. Protein comes to 44.4% of dry matter, yet only 4% of the 38% animal content is named. Various sugars are on all three recipes.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies who eat better with gravy poured over the meat
Rotating flavours. Chicken, turkey and beef come in the same box
Getting more water into a young dog, with moisture declared at 82.0%
Toy, small and medium pups, where calcium at 1.67% of dry matter sits comfortably
A gradual move onto wet food, with three familiar meats

Worth watching

Various sugars in all three trays, there for palatability and nothing a growing pup needs
Light energy for a growth food. The label's guide climbs to 3600g a day for the biggest pups
A pup that will finish big. Square that calcium figure with your vet first
No single protein plan, as three meats run through the selection

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

How this scores

How we score

40.6/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of toy to large size. Let the chart on the box set the tray count, then adjust by how your pup is looking.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Pets at Home Complete Nutrition Puppy Meaty Selection in Gravy 40.6

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Strong dry-matter figures carry the score, and a list made mostly of headings, with sugar on it, holds it back.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives38%A legal heading that covers a wide range of quality. Nothing on the pack narrows it down.
Chicken, turkey or beef4%The only named animal, one per tray.
CerealsBrings the starch. No grain is named beyond the rice.
Dried rice1.6%Equivalent to 4% rice. Gentle on a young digestion.
Minerals
Various sugarsThere because dogs like it. The one line we would be glad to lose.

Vitamins D3 and E with five trace elements, iron, iodine, manganese, zinc and copper, all as plain sulphates or iodate.

Calcium converts to 1.67% of dry matter, above where large-breed growth is usually pitched. Check with your vet for a pup that will finish big.

Named ingredients

With Chicken and Rice in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (38%, including 4% Chicken), Cereals (including 1.6% Dried Rice equivalent to 4% Rice), Minerals, Various Sugars.With Turkey and Rice in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (38%, including 4% Turkey), Cereals (including 1.6% Dried Rice equivalent to 4% Rice), Minerals, Various Sugars.With Beef and Rice in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (38%, including 4% Beef), Cereals (including 1.6% Dried Rice equivalent to 4% Rice), Minerals, Various Sugars.

Against the range

Three trays on one template: chicken, turkey and beef each take the named 4% inside a 38% share of meat and animal derivatives. The cereal line, the minerals and the various sugars are the same in all three.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

75 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

44.4%

Fat

27.8%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

13.9%

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

100%

Pricing & size