Tails.com

Tails.com Recipes in Gravy: Seaside Stew with Cod, Rice & Carrots review

Name: Tails.com Recipes in Gravy: Seaside Stew with Cod, Rice & Carrots
Brand: Tails.com

45.7/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

Three dinners in gravy: a beef cottage pie, a beef ragu with pasta and a cod stew with rice. All three sit in our Average band for the same reason, a meat and animal derivatives base with one animal named at 4%. The analysis is shared and sound, so they feed alike whichever your dog picks.

Where to buy: coming soon

Live retailer links are coming soon. Once we have them from UK retailers, where to buy and the best price will appear here.

Our view

Likely to suit

Owners rotating meals, with beef in two trays and cod in the third
Dogs that clean the bowl faster with gravy on top
Dogs that need moisture, at 82.0% across all three
A mixed household, from toy breeds to giants
Owners who like carrot, potato, red pepper, pasta and rice printed with their shares

Worth watching

Beyond the 4% named animal, the content is meat and animal derivatives
Pasta in the ragu and rice in the stew, so only the cottage pie names no grain
No energy figure on any tray, so the calories shown are our estimate

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

How this scores

How we score

45.7/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog needs about three of the 300g trays a day, so check the tray count before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Fish

The score, in context

Cottage Pie 45.8
Seaside Stew 45.7
Hearty Ragu 44.2

All three Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A verdict on a label more than on a dinner: the analysis is sound, and only 4% of the animal content is named.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivativesNo land animal named at all.
Vegetables: carrot6%
Fish and fish derivatives
Cod (inside the fish entry)4%The one named animal.
Cereals: rice2% dry, 5% cookedBody for the gravy.
Minerals, yeast

Vitamin D3, zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, each with a printed dose.

The meat entry names no land animal, so a dog avoiding one species has nothing to check.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives, Vegetables* (including 6% carrot), Fish and fish derivatives* (including 4% cod), Cereals* (2% dry rice, equivalent to 5% cooked rice), Minerals, Yeast. *Natural Ingredients

Against the range

Named animal: Cod 4%, in the fish entry; Beef 4% on the other two.
Land animal named: None; Beef on the others.
Cereal: Rice; Pasta on the ragu, none on the cottage pie.

The least specific label of the three, and the obvious pick for a dog that prefers fish.

All three trays open with meat and animal derivatives and name one animal at 4%: beef in the cottage pie and the ragu, cod in the stew. They share one printed analysis, so they feed alike, and none prints its energy.

The plant side is named with shares. The cottage pie carries no cereal; the ragu has pasta under bakery products and the stew has rice. Fish and fish derivatives appear on the cottage pie and the stew, and the ragu has no fish entry.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

71.8 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

Fat

3.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

50%

Fat

19.4%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

16.7%

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

55.3%

Added water

17%

Carbs

8.8%

Veg

14.6%

Other

4.2%

Pricing & size