Seven Pet Seven Senior Tins: Turkey With Salmon review

Protein does the heavy lifting here, converting to 47.7% of dry matter, with carbohydrate estimated at 10.9% against 15.8% for the typical adult wet food. That pairing puts this tin in our Excellent band. Our benchmark wet food earns an Excellent reading too, which tells you how strong the wet category is rather than taking anything away from this recipe.

Ingredients, as declared: Turkey 55%, Salmon 10%, Sweet Potato 2%, Chia 2%, Coconut 1%, Minerals 1%, Salmon Oil 0.15%, Green lipped mussel extract 0.1%, Chondroitin sulphate 0.09%, Glucosamine 0.03%

Turkey at 55% and salmon at 10% are both pinned to a species, and no category term appears anywhere on the list. Turkey is a leaner meat than chicken and easy on an older digestion. Salmon brings the marine fats that a stiff, elderly dog benefits from, so the pairing is doing a real job.

The analysis backs the list up. Protein converts to 47.7% of dry matter, which is at the strong end for a wet food, while fat sits at 25.5% and carbohydrate is estimated at 10.9%. The label prints the energy itself, 98 kcal per 100g, almost exactly the 97 kcal per 100g of a typical adult wet food.

Senior is in the name because of the joint package. Green lipped mussel extract at 0.1%, chondroitin sulphate at 0.09% and glucosamine at 0.03% all come with a figure beside them, and most labels do not bother. These are supportive amounts, not clinical doses. A dog already taking a vet's joint supplement should stay on it, with this as the meal alongside.

Small and sensible describes the rest of the list. Sweet potato at 2% and chia at 2% bring a little fibre, coconut at 1% adds a different sort of fat, and salmon oil at 0.15% is a garnish. Minerals at 1% cover the added panel.

That panel is where the label goes quiet. Zinc at 25mg, manganese at 1.4mg, copper at 1mg and iodine at 0.75mg are each dosed, but no vitamin appears in the capture at all. A tin this meat-rich draws most of its micronutrition straight from the meat, so this is a gap in what you can read rather than an obvious gap in the bowl.

£6.23 a kilo, in 400g tins sold in packs of 6.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would eat around 857 grams a day, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That works out at about £5.34. That is a shade over two tins, which is normal arithmetic for feeding a dog this size on wet food alone.