Purizon Adult Cans: Black Angus Beef & Turkey review

All four tins land in our Outstanding band and finish within a hair of one another. No tin is better made than the others, so pick the animal your dog prefers. These clear the middle of the adult wet shelf by a full band, and the analysis is why. Protein between 58.3% and 60.9% of dry matter with estimated carbohydrate no higher than 8.3% is remarkable for a wet food, off a list that is nearly all meat, broth and offal. Our nutritional balance pillar reads Outstanding on every tin.

Ingredients, as declared: 45% Chicken Fillet, 28.8% Broth, 10% Turkey Liver and Gizzards, 5% Black Angus Lung and Heart, 5% Chicken Fat, 3% Sweet Potato, 2% Cranberry, 1% Minerals, 0.2% Salmon Oil.

The engine of all four tins is the same. Chicken fillet at 45% with broth at 28.8%, then 10% given to liver and other organ meat and 5% to the animal on the front. Chicken fillet is proper muscle meat rather than a category term. The broth is declared as broth and not hidden as water. That is a small mark of honesty.

That construction produces an analysis most wet foods cannot reach. Protein converts to between 58.3% and 60.9% of dry matter, with fat between 21.7% and 25.0%. Estimated carbohydrate stays between 5.9% and 8.3%. Adult wet food typically runs at 15.8%. No grain appears anywhere, and the starch amounts to one 3% vegetable per tin.

The offal earns its place. Liver carries more nutrition than almost anything else a dog can eat, rich as it is in vitamin A, B12, copper and iron. Hearts, lungs and gizzards are the working muscle a wild diet would have supplied. Naming them and weighing them is what a careful label looks like.

The tin names need a word of explanation. Black Angus appears as lung and heart at 5%, game and rabbit at 5% each, lamb as lung and hearts at 5%. They are accents, and chicken is the substance of the recipe. That is ideal if chicken suits your dog, and no help at all if it does not.

Salmon oil at 0.2% closes each list and brings the omega-3 oils with it. The added minerals are printed with doses: zinc at 25mg, copper at 1.5mg, manganese at 1.4mg and iodine at 0.75mg. Vitamin E runs at 20 IU throughout, with vitamin D3 at 200 IU on the Black Angus Beef & Turkey tin.

Black Angus lung and heart at 5% behind turkey liver and gizzards at 10%, plus chicken fat at 5%, sweet potato at 3% and cranberry at 2%. It is the only tin whose additive panel prints vitamin D3, at 200 IU. Protein reads 14.2% as fed, the highest of the four.

Sold in 400g and 800g cans, with the same recipes offered in both sizes.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would eat between 750 and 800 grams a day depending on the tin. The target there is about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That is one 800g can, or two 400g cans with a little left in the second.