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Pets Pantry by HiLife Complete Meaty Chunks: Tasty Beef review

Name: Pets Pantry by HiLife Complete Meaty Chunks: Tasty Beef
Brand: HiLife

34.9/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

Soft, semi-moist chunks that pour like a dry food and need no crunching. Both recipes sit in our Average band. That reads the cereal in the bowl and the categories on the label, and is no warning about the bag. The Beef pins 17% of its meat to beef, more than most category labels commit to.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Worn teeth or a sore mouth: every chunk gives way
Soft food without a fridge, a tin opener or leftovers
Adult dogs of any build, from toy to giant
Several dogs in the house, with an 8kg bag on offer
Steady dogs, since at 306 kcal per 100g it will not quietly add weight

Worth watching

Meat meals is a heading, so the animals behind it can change between batches
Wheat bran and whole wheat lead both lists
Sugar and colourants on both labels; portion carefully for a dog watching its waistline

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

How this scores

How we score

34.9/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balancePoor

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A dog on a strict avoidance plan needs every species named, and neither recipe can give that.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Tasty Beef 34.9
Tasty Chicken 31.0

All two Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Cereal carrying the bowl and a label written in categories hold both in Average, and nothing in that says a dog is coming to harm.

What's in it

Wheat branThe outer layer of the grain: real fibre, but a milling by-product.
Meat meals18%, including 17% beefNearly all of it pinned to beef.
Ground whole wheatWheat is the usual suspect when a dog proves intolerant.
ChickenNo figure given, so this bowl is not beef alone.
Vegetable glycerineKeeps the chunks soft in the bag without spoiling. Faintly sweet.
SugarPalatability and softness.
Poultry fat, meat stockNamed to the bird group and no further.
Minerals, salt, yeast extract
Chicory extractInulin for the gut's useful bacteria.

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, copper, iodine, selenium and manganese, all dosed per kilo; colourants are declared too.

Named ingredients

Wheat bran, meat meals (18% including 17% beef), ground whole wheat, chicken, vegetable glycerine, sugar, poultry fat, meat stock, minerals, salt, yeast extract, chicory extract.

Against the range

Named meat: 17% beef inside the meat meals; The Chicken leaves its meat meals unattributed.
Other animals: Chicken and poultry fat; Poultry fat on both.
Analysis: Identical; Same figures on the Chicken.

The more specific of the pair, and the better read of the two labels.

Both bags open on wheat bran, with meat meals at 18% second and ground whole wheat third. Vegetable glycerine and sugar keep the chunks soft at 16.5% moisture. Poultry fat, meat stock, salt, yeast extract and chicory extract follow on both.

The analysis is identical: protein at 20.4% of dry matter, fat at 8.4% and carbohydrate an estimated 55.6%. The only difference is which animal the label chooses to name and how much of it.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

306 kcal/100g

Protein

17%

Fat

Fibre

Ash

10%

Moisture

16.5%

Dry weight

Protein

20.4%

Fat

8.4%

Fibre

3.6%

Ash

12%

Carbs

55.6%

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

34.3%

Added water

1.8%

Carbs

57.1%

Veg

4.2%

Oils

1.4%

Other

1.2%