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Symply Adult Trays: Chicken Pie review

Name: Symply Adult Trays: Chicken Pie
Brand: Symply

78.4/100Excellent

WetAdult

Flavour

The grain-friendly side of the Symply range: the same big printed meat share, with a little brown rice where the grain-free trays use squash or potato. Chicken, lamb and turkey land in our Excellent band. The Ocean Fish sits one band down in Good.

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Our view

Likely to suit

A dog that copes happily with a little wholegrain
Reading the animal off the front, each with a percentage
One land animal per tray on the chicken, lamb and turkey
Adult dogs from the smallest breeds to the largest
A prebiotic in the bowl on every label

Worth watching

Salmon oil on all four, so no tray is fish free
Brown rice on every label, for a household keeping cereal out
Energy on every tray is our estimate, so portions may need adjusting

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

How this scores

How we score

78.4/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs of every size. For a dog with a diagnosed fish allergy, ask Symply what goes into the ocean fish.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Turkey Bake 79.3
Meadow Raised Lamb 78.9
Chicken Pie 78.4
Ocean Fish 63.4

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

Three trays sit level with the better wet dinners, and the Ocean Fish falls a band behind for leaving its animal unnamed.

What's in it

Chicken73%The only meat.
Brown rice4%The only cereal.
Peas, carrots3%, 1%
Minerals
Salmon oil0.5%Omega 3, and fish on every tray.
Seaweed0.12%Iodine and trace minerals.
Fructooligosaccharide, yucca extractA prebiotic and a deodoriser.

Vitamins A, D3 and E, with zinc, iron and copper as chelates a dog takes up readily, and iodine as iodate.

Named ingredients

Chicken (73%), Brown Rice (4%), Peas (3%), Carrots (1%), Minerals, Salmon Oil (0.5%), Seaweed (0.12%), Prebiotic - Fructooligosaccharide, Yucca Extract.

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 52.0%; 38.0% to 46.2% on the others
Fat, dry matter: 32.0%; The richest; 22.0% on the Ocean Fish
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 2.0%; Up to 24.0% on the Ocean Fish

The richest bowl in the range, for a dog that holds its weight well.

Each tray puts its animal first with a figure: chicken, lamb and turkey at 73% apiece, ocean fish at 81%. Brown rice is the only cereal, at 4% or 5%, with peas at 3% and carrots at 1%. Salmon oil, seaweed, a prebiotic and yucca close every label. Choosing between them is a choice of animal, since the build barely moves; what does change is the analysis, from 2.0% carbohydrate in dry matter on the Chicken Pie to 24.0% on the Ocean Fish.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

115.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

13%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

52%

Fat

32%

Fibre

Ash

12%

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

73%

Added water

11%

Carbs

Veg

1.1%

Oils

0.5%

Other

7.4%

Pricing & size