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Tails.com Recipes in Jelly: Poultry Pot Pie with Chicken, Duck & Carrots review

Name: Tails.com Recipes in Jelly: Poultry Pot Pie with Chicken, Duck & Carrots
Brand: Tails.com

47/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

A pair of jelly dinners, a lamb and chicken supper and a chicken and duck pot pie, with the pot pie a shade ahead. Each names two animals at 4% apiece inside a meat and animal derivatives base and gives one vegetable its own share. Both sit in our Average band, and with identical analyses the choice comes down to which animals your dog enjoys.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that like their food in jelly
Poultry-minded dogs: chicken in both trays, duck alongside it in one
Rotating meals, as the pair swap animals on the same recipe
Dogs that need extra fluid, with moisture declared at 82.0%
A lighter tray, at an estimated 72 kcal per 100g

Worth watching

Beyond the two named animals, everything is meat and animal derivatives
Fish and fish derivatives with no species, so neither tray suits a dog kept off fish
No calorie figure on either label; the energy here is our estimate

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

How this scores

How we score

47/100Average

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyGood

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs from toy to giant. A 15kg adult gets through about three trays a day, so count trays before ordering.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Poultry Pot Pie 47.0
Meadow Supper 45.2

All two Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Sensible on the analysis, but most of the meat stays unnamed, which keeps both trays well behind a strong wet field.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives (chicken, duck)4% each namedEverything past the two named birds is unspecified.
Vegetables (carrots)4%Vitamin A and some antioxidants.
Fish and fish derivativesNo species.
Minerals
Yeast

Vitamin D3 with zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, short and fully dosed.

Named ingredients

Meat and animal derivatives (including 4% Chicken*, 4% Duck*), Vegetables* (4% carrots), Fish and fish derivatives*, Minerals, Yeast. *Natural Ingredients

Against the range

Named animals: Chicken and duck, 4% each; Lamb and chicken in the Meadow Supper
Vegetable: Carrots, 4%; Green beans at 6% in the Meadow Supper

Duck is the less common bird, so this is the tray for a dog that has gone off plain chicken.

Both trays are built the same way. Meat and animal derivatives leads, with two animals named inside it at 4% each. Then come one vegetable with its own share, fish and fish derivatives, minerals and yeast. The analysis is identical across the pair, protein at 50.0% of dry matter and fat at 19.4%, and neither label prints its energy.

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

59.6%

Added water

17%

Veg

15.8%

Other

7.6%

Pricing & size