Tesco

Tesco Complete & Balanced Nutrition Adult Wet review

Name: Tesco Complete & Balanced Nutrition Adult Wet
Brand: Tesco

41.8/100Average

WetAdult

A plain supermarket tin with an ingredient list four entries long, and it sits in our Average band. Meat and animal derivatives make up 44%, of which 4% is chicken, then cereals, minerals and various sugars. It is complete, it prints its calories, and the placing is about the short list, not anything wrong in the tin.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners feeding more than one dog from one everyday recipe
Dogs already settled and doing well on it
Adults of any size, from toy breeds to giants
Owners who like the energy printed: 92 kcal per 100g

Worth watching

Chicken pinned at 4% and the rest under a category heading, so no elimination diet
No cereal named, and various sugars on the list
Calcium at 2.11% of dry matter, on the generous side for an adult

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

How this scores

How we score

41.8/100Average

Protein and processingPoor

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueAverage

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Portions look large because wet food is light on calories, at roughly 660 grams a day for a 15kg dog, and plenty of owners serve it alongside a dry food.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Tesco Complete & Balanced Nutrition Adult Wet 41.8

All one Average. Typical wet food: Excellent.

A four-entry label leaves protein and processing very little to work with; the analysis itself is ordinary in the good sense.

What's in it

Meat and animal derivatives (including 4% chicken)44%A legal heading covering both ends of the quality range, free to change batch to batch. Only the chicken is fixed.
CerealsAny grain could sit behind the word. Carbohydrate is 21.1% of dry matter against 15.8% typical.
Minerals
Various sugarsAdded because dogs enjoy them; the recipe does not strictly need them.

Vitamin A at 1250 IU and D3 at 250 IU, with zinc, manganese and iodine dosed, and cassia gum at 1.2 g per kilo to set the tin.

No fruit or vegetable content is declared at all.

Named ingredients

Meat and Animal Derivatives (44%, including 4% Chicken), Cereals, Minerals, Various sugars.

Against the range

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

92 kcal/100g

Protein

7.5%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

81%

Dry weight

Protein

39.5%

Fat

26.3%

Fibre

2.6%

Ash

10.5%

Carbs

21.1%

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

44%

Added water

33.6%

Carbs

18.4%

Other

Pricing & size