Terra Canis

Terra Canis Essential 8: Chicken and Beef review

Name: Terra Canis Essential 8: Chicken and Beef
Brand: Terra Canis

80.7/100Outstanding

WetAdult

The plainest tin on this shelf, and it sits in our Outstanding band. Beef and chicken share 29% between them, all of it organ meat, with broth matching that share. Millet at 10% is the only cereal, and the vegetables are generous.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Dogs that take well to organ meat: stomach, heart, lung and liver, all named
Owners who want the broth declared as broth, at 29%
Adult dogs of any build, toy breed to giant
A gentle gluten-free grain, with millet the only cereal
Plenty of vegetable in the bowl: carrot at 14%, courgette at 12%

Worth watching

Beef and chicken together, so no elimination trial on either
Estimated carbohydrate at 40.1% of dry matter, well above the 15.8% typical for adult wet food
No animal named against the broth

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

How this scores

How we score

80.7/100Outstanding

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. The label puts a dog of 10kg to 20kg at 550 to 800 grams a day, so weigh your dog before choosing the tin size.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Beef

The score, in context

Chicken 80.7

All one Outstanding. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A band above where most wet food lands, earned by how plainly the tin is built and how easy the label is to check.

What's in it

Beef and chicken: chicken stomach, beef heart, beef lung, beef liver29% (11%, 7%, 7%, 4%)All organ and offal, the cuts a dog would go for first. Liver brings vitamin A, B12, copper and iron.
Broth29%Flavour and a little dissolved nutrition. Which animal is left unsaid.
Carrot14%
Courgette12%
Millet10%Gluten free, easy on most dogs, and the only cereal.
Apple4%
Rapeseed oil, coconut flour1% coconut flour
Minerals, sage, chervil, thyme0.2% each herbSeasoning.

Vitamin D3 with zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, each given per kilo, more declaration than many wet labels bother with.

Named ingredients

Beef and chicken 29% (chicken stomach 11%, beef heart 7%, beef lung 7%, beef liver 4%), broth 29%, carrot 14%, courgette 12%, millet 10%, apple 4%, rapeseed oil, coconut flour 1%*, minerals*, sage 0.2%*, chervil 0.2%*, thyme 0.2%*, *dried

Against the range

Eight working ingredients before the minerals and herbs: an all-organ meat share, an equal share of broth, carrot, courgette, millet and apple. Every entry bar the oil and the minerals carries a percentage.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

100.4 kcal/100g

Protein

9.8%

Fat

3.4%

Fibre

1.1%

Ash

1.1%

Moisture

74.3%

Dry weight

Protein

38.1%

Fat

13.2%

Fibre

4.3%

Ash

4.3%

Carbs

40.1%

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

29%

Added water

29%

Carbs

11%

Veg

30%

Oils

0.2%

Other

0.8%