Tesco

Tesco Adult Pouches Mixed Selection: Cuts In Gravy review

Name: Tesco Adult Pouches Mixed Selection: Cuts In Gravy
Brand: Tesco

42.6/100Average

WetAdult

Flavour

The supermarket's everyday wet recipe in 100g pouches, in cuts in gravy, chunks in gravy and chunks in jelly. All three sit in our Average band within a whisker of each other. The analysis is better than the label: protein converts to 44.4% of dry matter and these are not pouches padded out with grain.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Small dogs, as one pouch makes a meal with nothing left to cover
Spooning the same amount of wet food over a dry meal each time
Dogs that hold out for gravy and dogs that prefer jelly
Eaters who get bored quickly, with four meats rotating through every box
Adults from the smallest toy breeds up to giants

Worth watching

The named animal is just 4% of the pouch, so no elimination diet can lean on these
Oils and fats with no source, which can change between batches
Various sugars on every version
Light at 85 kcal per 100g, so a big dog gets through plenty of pouches

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

How this scores

How we score

42.6/100Average

Protein and processingAverage

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyExcellent

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. A 15kg dog eats about nine pouches a day, so check that suits your routine before ordering the box of twelve.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

In Jelly 43.0
In Gravy 42.7
Cuts In Gravy 42.6

All three Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The meat naming is where scoring finds least to reward, while the analysis does better than the list, with plenty of protein and little starch.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives41%, including 4% named meatLamb, beef, chicken or turkey by pouch. Which other animals and parts go in, the wording never says.
Derivatives of vegetable origin (chicory)0.08%Inulin, food for the friendly bacteria in the large intestine.
Dried carrots and peas1%Equivalent to 6.4% fresh, as the label helpfully says.
Minerals
Oils and fatsAnimal or seed, unstated.
Various sugarsTo make the gravy taste of something.

Vitamin D3, vitamin E, zinc as a sulphate and iodine, dosed in print for all varieties.

Named ingredients

With Lamb & Vegetables in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (41%, including 4% Lamb), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.08% Chicory), Vegetables (1% Mix of Dried Carrots and Dried Peas, equivalent to 6.4% Mix of Carrots and Peas), Minerals, Oils and Fats, Various Sugars. With Beef & Vegetables in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (41%, including 4% Beef), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.08% Chicory), Vegetables (1% Mix of Dried Carrots and Dried Peas, equivalent to 6.4% Mix of Carrots and Peas), Minerals, Oils and Fats, Various Sugars. With Chicken & Vegetables in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (41%, including 4% Chicken), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.08% Chicory), Vegetables (1% Mix of Dried Carrots and Dried Peas, equivalent to 6.4% Mix of Carrots and Peas), Minerals, Oils and Fats, Various Sugars. With Turkey & Vegetables in Gravy: Meat and Animal Derivatives (41%, including 4% Turkey), Derivatives of Vegetable Origin (0.08% Chicory), Vegetables (1% Mix of Dried Carrots and Dried Peas, equivalent to 6.4% Mix of Carrots and Peas), Minerals, Oils and Fats, Various Sugars.

Against the range

Texture: Cuts in gravy; Chunks in gravy or in jelly.
Vegetables: Carrot and pea mix, 1%; Same on the chunks in gravy; none in the jelly.
Labels published: All four flavours; Chicken missing on the chunks in gravy.

The one with every flavour's label in full, sold in the smaller box.

Every pouch declares meat and animal derivatives at 41%, of which 4% is the species on the front: lamb, beef, chicken or turkey, all four in every box. The rest of the animal content sits under that category heading, and oils and fats carry no source. You are trusting Tesco, not the recipe.

Chicory at 0.08% is on every list, and the two gravy styles add a dried carrot and pea mix at 1%. Various sugars close each list. The jelly drops the vegetables and sets with cassia gum.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

85 kcal/100g

Protein

Fat

5.5%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

82%

Dry weight

Protein

44.4%

Fat

30.6%

Fibre

2.8%

Ash

11.1%

Carbs

11.1%

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

100%

Pricing & size