Terra Canis

Terra Canis Puppy Wet Food: Antelope with potato, pear, chestnut & chamomile review

Name: Terra Canis Puppy Wet Food: Antelope with potato, pear, chestnut & chamomile
Brand: Terra Canis

77.5/100Excellent

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Flavour

Puppy cans put together the way a butcher would, with organ meat doing much of the work alongside muscle. Three sit in our Excellent band and the beef reaches Outstanding. The minerals come from oyster shell, seaweed and mineral clay, with a short synthetic panel.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Pups on a single species diet: each can names one animal and stays with it
Rotating through the week, with antelope, beef, chicken and lamb all built to one pattern
Pups that take well to organ meat
Owners who want real vegetables in the can, carrot and courgette named on the label
Any size of puppy, with three can sizes to adjust the amount

Worth watching

Calcium from oyster shell with no figure printed, which leaves a large or giant breed growth plan with nothing to check
Millet or brown rice in three of the four, so only the antelope is grain free
Carbohydrate estimates above the typical puppy wet food, from the produce

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

How this scores

How we score

77.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Set the daily amount from the growth chart and your pup's ribs, and recheck every couple of weeks; for a large breed, ask Terra Canis for the calcium figure first.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

The score, in context

Beef 80.4
Antelope 77.5
Lamb 75.9
Chicken 75.5

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

The four score close together, so rotating through the range keeps a pup within a band of where it started, and the beef edges ahead.

What's in it

Antelope muscle meat50%A protein most puppies have never met.
Carrot, courgette
Potato11%Binds the can with chestnut and coconut flour, no grain.
Pear4%
Rapeseed oil, cucumber, coconut flour
Chestnut flour1%
Cranberry, brewer's yeast, oyster shellOyster shell is the calcium source, unquantified.
Chamomile0.2%A traditional settler for a young stomach.
Rose hip, silica, savory, caraway, mineral clay, flower pollen, seaweed, minerals

Vitamins A and D3 with zinc, iron, copper, manganese and iodine, a short declared panel.

Calcium comes from oyster shell with no figure printed, which matters for a large or giant breed pup.

Named ingredients

Antelope Muscle Meat (50%), Carrot, Zucchini, Potato (11%), Pear (4%), Rapeseed Oil, Cucumber, Coconut Flour, Chestnut Flour (1%), Cranberry, Brewer's Yeast, Oyster Shell, Chamomile ( 0.2%), Rose Hip, Silica, Savory, Caraway, Mineral Clay, Flower Pollen, Seaweed, Minerals.

Against the range

Meat: Antelope muscle meat 50%, no organs; Organ meat leads the other three
Grain: None; Millet or brown rice in the rest
Fat, dry matter: 13.0%; The leanest; up to 26.8% on the beef
Protein, dry matter: 56.2%; The highest in the range

A useful card to hold once the usual proteins have been tried, and the only grain free can.

Each can keeps to one animal, and three of the four build the meat share from heart, lung, liver or stomach as well as muscle; the antelope is muscle meat alone. Meat runs from 49% to 58% of the can. Carrot, courgette, pumpkin, apple and other produce appear at visible percentages, and calcium comes from oyster shell, with seaweed, silica and mineral clay alongside.

What varies is the binder and the fat. Millet goes into the beef and chicken, brown rice into the lamb, and the antelope is the only grain free can. Energy runs from 72 to 120 kcal per 100g, so the same scoop is not the same meal across the range.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

71.7 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10.8%

Fat

2.5%

Fibre

Ash

1.3%

Moisture

80.8%

Dry weight

Protein

56.2%

Fat

13%

Fibre

5.2%

Ash

6.8%

Carbs

18.8%

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

50%

Added water

20.3%

Carbs

13.2%

Veg

12.8%

Oils

1.7%

Other

2.1%