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Tails.com Optimum Care: Juicy Chicken with Butternut Squash & Kale review

Name: Tails.com Optimum Care: Juicy Chicken with Butternut Squash & Kale
Brand: Tails.com

77.5/100Excellent

WetPuppyAdult

Flavour

Wet trays built one way: one named meat at 65%, two named plants, and a percentage against every ingredient, which is rare in wet food. Lamb, chicken, beef, turkey and duck each get a tray. All five land in our Excellent band.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who buy on a printed meat share
A change of animal without a change of recipe
Mild joint stiffness: green-lipped mussel is on every label
Puppies and older dogs fed from the same tray, which four recipes allow
Grain-avoiding dogs

Worth watching

Salmon oil on every label, so no tray is strictly single-animal for an elimination diet
Green-lipped mussel is a shellfish
The trays differ a lot in richness, so switching changes the portion

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

How this scores

How we score

77.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Four trays are listed from puppy to senior and the duck for adults and seniors, all sizes. No label declares energy, so treat the daily amounts as our estimates and watch condition.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Succulent Turkey 79.5
Tender Duck 77.8
Juicy Chicken 77.5
Rustic Beef 76.3
Aromatic Lamb 75.0

All five Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Five trays separated by very little, a solid and well-declared example of the format with no wrong choice inside it.

What's in it

Chicken65%
Butternut squash, kale4% each
Minerals
Salmon oil0.2%A small, real source of marine omega 3, and a second animal.
Chicory root powder0.12%Provides 0.08% inulin, a prebiotic fibre.
Dried parsley0.1%
Green-lipped mussel powder0.05%A shellfish, there for joint comfort.
Yucca schidigera powder0.02%

Copper, zinc, manganese, iodine and vitamin D3, dosed in print and the same across the range.

Named ingredients

65% chicken*, 4% butternut squash*, 4% kale*, minerals, 0.2% salmon oil*, 0.12% chicory root powder* (providing 0.08% inulin), 0.1% dried parsley*, 0.05% green-lipped mussel powder, 0.02% Yucca schidigera powder*. *Natural ingredient

Against the range

Fat, dry matter: 38.1%; The richest of the five; beef is 20.0%.
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 2.4%; Up to 7.5% on the beef.
Energy: 105 kcal per 100g; 79 to 120 across the five.

The richest bowl in fat, for a dog that keeps its weight off easily.

One construction runs through all five trays: a named meat at 65%, two named plants at 4% each, then minerals. Salmon oil, chicory root, a dried herb, green-lipped mussel and yucca follow, every entry with a percentage. No label carries a cereal.

Protein converts to between 45.8% and 60.0% of dry matter and estimated carbohydrate stays between 2.4% and 7.5%. What changes is the meat, the plant pair, the herb and how rich each tray is.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

104.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

79%

Dry weight

Protein

47.6%

Fat

38.1%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

9.5%

Carbs

2.4%

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

15.9%

Veg

8.1%

Oils

0.2%

Other

10.7%

Pricing & size