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Step Up Wet Food Sensitive: Chicken With Fish (24 tins) review

Name: Step Up Wet Food Sensitive: Chicken With Fish (24 tins)
Brand: Step Up

59.2/100Good

WetAdult

A deliberately simple tin with its gentle intentions worn on the label, and a Good result in our scoring. Chicken leads at 22%, with white fish and liver behind it and every animal entry given a percentage. You can read the whole list in the time it takes to find the tin opener.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Delicate stomachs, with the recipe kept to a handful of everyday ingredients
Owners who want the animal share declared: chicken, white fish and liver add up to 41% of the tin
Adult dogs of any build, toy to giant
Dogs fine with a little gentle grain, as brown rice and naked oats come in modest, printed amounts

Worth watching

Chicken, fish and grain all share the tin, so it cannot serve an elimination diet for any of them
Neither the white fish nor the liver is pinned to a species
Light tins at around 80 kcal per 100g, so a larger dog moves through them quickly

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

How this scores

How we score

59.2/100Good

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceExcellent

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Gentle is a different thing from hypoallergenic, so check a diagnosed allergy against the list before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Chicken 59.2

All one Good. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Rice, sweet potato and oats take more of the tin than is usual for wet food, which accounts for most of the gap to the category; what the label promises, it delivers.

What's in it

Chicken22%Leads the list.
White fish14%No species named, which a strict avoidance plan should notice.
Brown rice6%A calm, familiar carrier.
Liver5%The animal is not stated.
Sweet potato, peas4% each
Apple4%The label's flourish.
Naked oats2%
Fish oil0.05%A token, short of a working dose.
Rosemary, mint, minerals

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, iron, copper, manganese, iodine and selenium, each dosed in print, more than many wet labels manage.

Named ingredients

Chicken (22%), White Fish (14%), Brown Rice (6%), Liver (5%), Sweet Potato (4%), Apple (4%), Peas (4%), Naked Oats (2%), Fish Oil (0.05%), Rosemary, Mint, Minerals

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

79.5 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

Fibre

Ash

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

35%

Fat

20%

Fibre

Ash

10%

Carbs

30%

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

41%

Added water

23.4%

Carbs

16%

Veg

Oils

0.1%

Other

15.6%

Pricing & size