Terra Canis

Terra Canis Puppy Wet Food: Chicken with pumpkin, chamomile and bee pollen review

Name: Terra Canis Puppy Wet Food: Chicken with pumpkin, chamomile and bee pollen
Brand: Terra Canis

75.5/100Excellent

WetPuppy

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

75.5/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

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

Main protein

Chicken

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

Chicken stomach28%One of the parts a dog goes for first.
Chicken heart17%
Pumpkin14%The standout vegetable, gentle on digestion.
Millet, apple, tomatoMillet is the grain.
Chicken muscle meat, skin, liver6%, 4%, 3%
Rapeseed oil, pumpkin seed flour1% on the flour
Oyster shell, brewer's yeast, chivesCalcium from the oyster shell, unquantified.
Chamomile0.2%
Silica, rosehip powder, mineral clay, pollen, seaweed, minerals

The same short panel across the range: vitamins A and D3 with five trace minerals.

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

Named ingredients

Chicken Stomach (28%), Chicken Heart (17%), Pumpkin (14%), Millet, Apple, Tomato, Chicken Muscle Meat (6%), Chicken Skin (4%), Chicken Liver (3%), Rapeseed Oil, Pumpkin Seed Flour (1% ), Oyster Shell, Brewer's Yeast, Chives, Chamomile (0.2%), Silica, Rosehip Powder, Mineral Clay, Pollen, Seaweed, Minerals.

Against the range

Meat: 58%, stomach and heart first; 49% to 56% on the others
Protein against fat, dry matter: 40.1% and 20.3%; The most even balance in the range
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 29.0%; The highest; the antelope is 18.8%

The most balanced can of the four, built from the cuts a dog reaches for first.

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

89.9 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

8.7%

Fat

4.4%

Fibre

0.3%

Ash

Moisture

78.3%

Dry weight

Protein

40.1%

Fat

20.3%

Fibre

1.4%

Ash

9.2%

Carbs

29%

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

58%

Added water

16.1%

Carbs

6.8%

Veg

17.4%

Oils

0.6%

Other

1.1%