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Scrumbles Complete Sensitive Wet Dog Food: Chicken review

Name: Scrumbles Complete Sensitive Wet Dog Food: Chicken
Brand: Scrumbles

77.6/100Excellent

WetPuppyAdult

Flavour

About as short as an ingredients list gets, and the chicken and duck sit in our Excellent band with the turkey in Outstanding. One named animal at 65%, a vegetable, minerals and slippery elm. A chicken tray really is chicken, which makes the range genuinely useful on an exclusion diet.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs on an exclusion diet: one animal per recipe, no fish oil
Unsettled digestion, with slippery elm in every recipe
Owners who like a big, obvious meat share
Mixed-age households. One recipe covers puppy through to senior
Dogs that need feeding up, on the duck or turkey

Worth watching

Fat at 46.0% of dry matter on the duck; a dog watching its waistline does better on the chicken
No fish oil anywhere, so the omega 3 is whatever the meat brings
No vitamin A on the added panel

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

How this scores

How we score

77.6/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. For a large breed puppy, choose the duck or the turkey, whose calcium meets what growth needs.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Turkey 81.8
Duck 77.7
Chicken 77.6

Three recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

All three are well made, so pick by the animal; the turkey sits a step above the other two.

What's in it

Chicken65%The only animal in the tray.
Carrots4%
Green beans2%Only this recipe has them.
Minerals
Slippery elm0.1%A gel-forming plant fibre long used to settle an irritated gut. A supporting act at this level.

Vitamin D3, vitamin E and biotin, with zinc, manganese and copper as glycine chelates, a form absorbed more readily than sulphates.

Calcium at 1.62% of dry matter is fine for a grown dog; for a large breed puppy the duck or turkey fits better.

Named ingredients

65% Chicken, 4% Carrots, 2% Green Beans, Minerals, Slippery Elm 0.1% (Prebiotic), 117kCal/100g

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 46.8%; Highest; 38.0% on the duck
Fat, dry matter: 34.0%; 46.0% on the duck, 39.6% on the turkey
Energy: 117 kcal per 100g; 134 and 135 on the others

The steady everyday choice, and the lightest in the set.

Every recipe is 65% of one named animal with no second meat behind it: no meat and animal derivatives, no unnamed oils, no hydrolysates, no fish oil. Carrots at 4% follow, then minerals and slippery elm at 0.1%. Carbohydrate is estimated at 8.4% of dry matter or less.

What varies is the small stuff: green beans on the chicken, dried apple on the duck, dried cranberries and sunflower oil on the turkey. Calcium runs from 0.96% to 1.62% of dry matter across the three.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

117 kcal/100g

Protein

11%

Fat

Fibre

0.6%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

76.5%

Dry weight

Protein

46.8%

Fat

34%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

10.6%

Carbs

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

65%

Added water

17.3%

Carbs

Veg

Other

11.7%

Pricing & size