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Tails.com Inner Vitality Wet: Mature Chicken review

Name: Tails.com Inner Vitality Wet: Mature Chicken
Brand: Tails.com

78.1/100Excellent

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

A chicken wet food with a short list where every ingredient is named and nearly all of them weighed, down to the prebiotics. All four recipes reach our Excellent band. The supplement tail is the thing that sets it apart: you can read exactly how much of each one goes in.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs kept on poultry. Three of the four recipes name chicken as the only meat
Owners who want every ingredient named and weighed
Unsettled digestion, with a chicken and cod recipe built for it and prebiotics on every label
Older dogs feeling their joints. The mature recipe prints glucosamine at 0.02% and chondroitin at 0.004%
Growing puppies, who get their own richer tray at 10.0% protein and 8.5% fat as fed

Worth watching

Salmon oil on all four labels, so none is truly single-animal for a strict elimination trial
Chicken in every recipe, which leaves a chicken-reactive dog nothing here
No calorie figure printed on any label; the energy shown is our estimate

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

How this scores

How we score

78.1/100Excellent

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for dogs of every size, with separate puppy, adult and mature recipes. The puppy recipe comes only in the 150 g tray, so check the format before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Puppy Chicken 79.3
Adult Chicken 78.8
Adult Chicken 78.2
Mature Chicken 78.1

All four Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The four sit very close together, so choosing by protein or life stage costs nothing in quality.

What's in it

Chicken65%
Minerals
Salmon oil0.15%Eased back from the adult tray.
Parsley
Yeast cell walls, chicory root powder0.033% eachPrebiotics, the same on every recipe.
Glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulphate0.02%, 0.004%Double the dose on the other three labels.
Tyndallised Lactobacillus helveticus, Lacticaseibacillus paracasei0.002% each

Vitamins A, D3 and E with zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, all dosed on the panel, plus blueberry extract as a sensory addition.

If your dog has a diagnosed joint problem, keep to what the vet prescribed and use this as the meal beneath it.

Named ingredients

Chicken* 65%, Minerals, Salmon Oil* 0.15%, Parsley*, Yeast Cell Walls 0.033% (as a source of MOS and Beta glucans), Chicory Roots Powder 0.033% (as a source of FOS), Glucosamine Hydrochloride 0.02%, Chondroitin Sulphate 0.004%, Tyndallised Lactobacillus helveticus 0.002%, Tyndallised Lacticaseibacillus paracasei 0.002%. *Natural ingredients, Paraprobiotics

Against the range

Joint pair: 0.02% glucosamine, 0.004% chondroitin; 0.01% and 0.002% on the rest.
Protein, dry matter: 47.5%; Highest in the range; 42.9% to 45.5% elsewhere.
Salmon oil: 0.15%; 0.2% on the adult trays, 0.3% on the puppy.

For an older dog this is the obvious pick, with the joint pair doubled and protein kept high.

Chicken carries every recipe: 65% on the adult, mature and puppy trays, and 51% beside cod at 14% on the sensitive one. No ingredient on any of the four labels is written as a category term.

Every recipe adds salmon oil, yeast cell walls and chicory root as prebiotics, two tyndallised bacteria, and glucosamine with chondroitin, all with a printed percentage. What changes is the dose: more salmon oil on the puppy tray, a doubled joint pair on the mature.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

96.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

9.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

47.5%

Fat

35%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

10%

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

20.9%

Oils

0.1%

Other

14%

Pricing & size