Terra Canis

Terra Canis Hypoallergenic Wet Food: Ostrich with parsnip review

Name: Terra Canis Hypoallergenic Wet Food: Ostrich with parsnip
Brand: Terra Canis

81.1/100Outstanding

WetAdultSenior

Flavour

One meat and one vegetable to a tin, which is what a vet's instruction to strip the diet back looks like when it is canned. The animals are antelope, horse, kangaroo, ostrich and water buffalo. Ostrich and water buffalo reach our Outstanding band, the other three Excellent.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Exclusion diets: one named animal and one named plant, nothing else of animal origin
Dogs that have run into trouble with the everyday meats
A label you can take in at a glance. None runs past seven entries
Weeks on one food, with the B group dosed individually
Pitching the fat exactly, from the lean kangaroo to the rich horse

Worth watching

Changing tins changes the diet more than the shared recipe suggests
The antelope list ends on the word nutrients
No calories declared on any label, so the energy figures are our estimates

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

How this scores

How we score

81.1/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults and seniors of every size. A dog being worked up for a food allergy should follow the vet's plan, with the tin as one part of it.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Water buffalo 81.7
Ostrich 81.1
Kangaroo 79.3
Horse 79.1
Antelope 74.3

Five recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Every tin holds at or above the middle of a strong field, and what makes them useful is exactly what makes them plain.

What's in it

Ostrich muscle meat60%A bird, but a rare one.
Parsnip36%
Linseed oilPlant omega 3.
Rapeseed oilLight and low in saturated fat. No fish or animal fat anywhere.
SeaweedIodine and a wide spread of minerals.
Minerals

Vitamins A, D and E with the B group dosed one by one, thiamine to folic acid, plus copper, manganese, iodine and zinc.

Named ingredients

Ostrich Muscle Meat 60%, Parsnip 36%, Linseed Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Seaweed, Minerals.

Against the range

Protein, dry matter: 55.6%; The top of the range; the horse is 33.5%.
Fat, dry matter: 20.4%; Mid-range, between 11.2% and 40.8%.

The most conventionally balanced of the five, and an easy first tin to try.

Every tin is built the same way: 60% muscle meat from one animal, 36% of one vegetable, linseed and rapeseed oil, seaweed and the minerals. Nothing on any of the five lists comes from a second animal, and both oils are plant oils, so no fish or unnamed fat goes near the recipe.

What varies is the animal and the vegetable, and the analysis swings with them. Protein runs from 33.5% of dry matter on the horse to 55.6% on the ostrich, fat from 11.2% on the kangaroo to 40.8% on the horse.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

96.1 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

12.5%

Fat

4.6%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

1.2%

Moisture

77.5%

Dry weight

Protein

55.6%

Fat

20.4%

Fibre

1.8%

Ash

5.3%

Carbs

16.9%

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

60%

Added water

2.4%

Veg

36.3%

Oils

1.1%

Other

0.2%

Pricing & size