Terra Canis

Terra Canis Low Fat Diet: Chicken review

We don't put a score on this food. It is a veterinary diet, formulated for a diagnosed condition and meant to be fed on a vet's advice. Your vet has seen your dog and we have not, so a number from us could only pull you towards their advice or away from it, and neither of those is ours to do. What follows is what the label declares, what the analysis works out at, and where to buy it, with no judgement attached to any of it.

Terra Canis sells these two in its Diet range as Low Fat, tins the maker builds on a single meat with the fat pared right back for dogs whose fat intake a vet is restricting.

WetAdult

Flavour

Two low-fat veterinary tins from Terra Canis, each built on a single meat with the fat pared right back. We do not score them, because they are meant for a dog whose fat intake a vet is restricting. The chicken tin is mostly organ meat; the kangaroo tin gives its meat as one line.

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

A dog whose vet has asked for restricted fat
An exclusion plan run off the label, with one animal per tin and no fish oil
A dog that has never met kangaroo, where a novel protein is part of the instruction
Owners who want the vitamin and trace mineral doses printed on each tin

Worth watching

At 62 kcal per 100g the bowl gets large, which a small dog manages more comfortably than a big one
The daily amount on a restricted fat plan is your vet's call, not the label's

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

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size, on a vet's advice. Check the daily amount with your vet: the printed guide asks 900 to 1300 grams for a dog of 10 to 20kg.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

What's in it

Chicken: stomach, heart, muscle meat35% (16%, 11%, 8%)Organ meat carries most of the total.
Broth34%
Cucumber, carrot, pumpkin6% each
Broccoli, pineapple3% and 2%
Cellulose, lupin meal2% eachFibre that passes straight through, beside the psyllium further down that holds water.
Parsnip, minerals1% each
Fennel, coconut flour, artichoke leaf, psyllium husks and seed
Dandelion, marigold, yarrow, basilDried herbs.
Brewer's yeast, chia seed, oyster shell, spirulina

Vitamins A and D3 with iodine, copper, manganese and zinc, each dosed on the tin.

Named ingredients

Chicken 35% (chicken stomach 16%, chicken heart 11%, chicken muscle meat 8%), broth 34%, cucumber 6%, carrot 6%, pumpkin 6%, broccoli 3%, pineapple 2%, cellulose 2% *, lupin meal 2% *, parsnip 1% *, minerals 1% *, fennel, coconut flour *, artichoke leaf *, psyllium husks *, psyllium seed *, dandelion *, marigold *, yarrow *, basil *, brewer's yeast *, chia seed *, oyster shell *, spirulina * *dried

Against the range

Meat: 35%: stomach, heart, muscle meat; Kangaroo 31%, one line with no cuts.
Fat, dry matter: 15.2%; 8.2% on the kangaroo.
Fibre, dry matter: 10.5%; 6.6% on the kangaroo.
Protein, dry matter: 40.4%; 49.7% on the kangaroo.

The familiar protein of the two, with the cuts itemised.

Both tins keep to one animal, chicken in one and kangaroo in the other, with no fish oil and no unnamed animal fat. Neither lists an added oil, so what fat there is comes from the meat itself.

The fibre is shared: cellulose and lupin meal, with psyllium husks and psyllium seed behind them. Coconut flour, artichoke leaf, brewer's yeast and chia seed appear on both lists, and both close with oyster shell, spirulina and a run of dried herbs. Both are worked out at 62 kcal per 100g.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

62.1 kcal/100g

Protein

6.9%

Fat

2.6%

Fibre

1.8%

Ash

1.1%

Moisture

82.9%

Dry weight

Protein

40.4%

Fat

15.2%

Fibre

10.5%

Ash

6.4%

Carbs

27.5%

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

35%

Added water

34%

Carbs

0.8%

Veg

16.1%

Other

14.2%

Pricing & size