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Step Up Wet Food Adult Trays: Cheeky Little Chicken Pot Pie review

Name: Step Up Wet Food Adult Trays: Cheeky Little Chicken Pot Pie
Brand: Step Up

73.5/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

Three 395 g dinners built to the same short, honest plan, with the beef and chicken in our Excellent band and the salmon a step behind in Good. What sets them apart is a printed percentage on every animal entry, which is not a given on the wet shelf. Every label is written in plain English.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that tire of the same dinner: the animal changes, the recipe underneath does not
Owners who read the meat percentage
Adult dogs of any size, toy to giant
Dogs comfortable with a little gentle grain
Anyone who likes a full mineral panel with a dose beside each entry

Worth watching

Chicken at 16% in the beef tray, and fish oil on all three labels
Grain in every tray
The printed feeding guide stops at 12 kg, so a larger dog's portion has to be estimated

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

How this scores

How we score

73.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. The printed guide stops at 12 kg, so for a bigger dog start from the estimate and adjust by condition.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Cheeky Little Chicken Pot Pie 73.5
Big Love Beefy Stew 72.0
Fabulously Fishy Salmon Pie 66.6

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

Beef and chicken sit in the thick of a strong wet field; the salmon is a short step behind because its white fish goes unnamed.

What's in it

Chicken62%The highest single meat share in the range, with no second animal.
Rice6%A little gentle grain.
Dried carrots1%Equivalent to 9% carrots, in place of the peas.
Dried white potato1%Equivalent to 5% fresh.
Naked oats2%
Minerals
Fish oil0.06%
Thyme0.03%For the character of the dish.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, then zinc, iron, copper, manganese, iodine and selenium as sodium selenite, every one with a dose.

Named ingredients

Chicken (62%), Rice (6%), Dried Carrots (1%, equivalent to 9% Carrots), Dried White Potato (1%, equivalent to 5% White Potato, Naked Oats (2%), Minerals, Fish Oil (0.06%), Thyme (0.03%)

Against the range

Meat: Chicken 62%, one animal; Two animals or two fish on the others
Fat, as fed: 7.0%; 8.0% on the other two
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 24.0%; Lower on the beef and the salmon

The leanest tray and the cleanest single-meat label of the three.

Three trays built to one plan: a named meat or fish with a printed percentage, rice at 6%, naked oats at 2%, dried potato at 1% and a herb at 0.03%. Peas go into the beef and salmon trays, carrots into the chicken. Fish oil is on every label, at a flourish rather than a working dose.

Moisture is declared, and protein converts to 36.0% of dry matter on all three. Carbohydrate runs from 18.0% to 24.0% of dry matter, a shade above the typical wet food. The mineral panel is the same, fully dosed, on each.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

121 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

36%

Fat

28%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

24%

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

72.1%

Added water

17.4%

Carbs

Veg

1.2%

Oils

2.3%

Pricing & size