Trophy Pet Foods Trophy Premium Holistic: Beef with Tripe review

Four of the five finish inside our Excellent band, with the beef and tripe a step below them in Good. Since no recipe is clearly the stronger buy, let your dog's taste in meat decide. The middle of the wet shelf also reads Excellent because wet food does well with us, so this range sits level with a strong average and not clear of it. Nutritional balance and transparency read Outstanding on every recipe. Protein and processing climbs from Average on the beef to Outstanding on the chicken, while value reads Excellent on the four with the beef a step behind at Good. The declared 66% is what holds the range steady. What stops it climbing is the pair of category terms at the end of the list, plus a few extras that are there in name but barely in quantity.

Ingredients, as declared: Beef (32%), Tripe (20%), Chicken (14%), Potato Meal (2%), Dried Peas (1.4%, equivalent to 3% peas), Dried Carrots (1%, equivalent to 10% carrots), Dried Potato (1%, equivalent to 4% potato), Dried Herbs, Minerals, Dried Broccoli, Dried Tomato, Dried Apple, Fish Oil, Sunflower Oil, Dried Seaweed, FOS, Glucosamine (0.004%), Chondroitin (0.002%), Cranberry, Yucca Extract, Yeast Extract.

Every recipe puts 66% animal content on the label, and the way that share is divided is the interesting part. The beef runs beef at 32%, tripe at 20% and chicken at 14%. The duck recipe is duck at 36% with chicken at 30%. Lamb, chicken and salmon each take the full share alone. Tripe is a genuinely good thing to find on a list. Tripe is stomach from a grazing animal. It is full of nutrients and easy on a dog's digestion.

Protein converts to 40.0% of dry matter across the range and 45.5% on the salmon, with fat between 27.3% and 32.0%. That is a rich analysis for wet food. Where the typical adult wet food runs at 15.8%, the carbohydrate estimate here stays close to type at between 13.5% and 18.0% of dry matter. From a recipe with so little plant material in it, that is what you would hope for.

There is not much plant material, and most of it arrives dried. Potato meal, peas, carrots and potato are each printed with both their dried weight and their fresh equivalent. Broccoli, tomato, apple, cranberry and seaweed follow at trace level, along with FOS as a prebiotic and yucca extract. None of these is the reason to choose the food, but none of them is doing any harm either.

The added fats are fish oil and sunflower oil, a sensible pairing for skin and coat. It is also why every label in the range carries fish. Glucosamine and chondroitin close the list, written as 0.004% and 0.002% on four labels and as 38mg/kg and 22mg/kg on the chicken, which are the same sort of amounts expressed two different ways.

Two entries stay general. Herbs can cover anything leafy the maker chooses, and minerals stands in for the added trace elements with no breakdown beside it. For most dogs neither matters in the slightest. If you are keeping to a strict avoidance list, those are the two lines you cannot check.

Beef at 32% with tripe at 20% and chicken at 14%, the only recipe here to put three animals in one bowl. The tripe is what sets it apart, and it is usually the first thing a reluctant eater agrees to. Chicken is in the mix, so a dog being kept off poultry wants one of the others.

£5.47 a kilo across the range, with the duck and chicken recipe at £5.71, in a single 395g size sold twelve to a case.

As a guide, feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at between £3.93 and £4.76 a day depending on the recipe. The working intake there is about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That comes to roughly 718 to 870 grams. The calorie figures behind those portions are our estimate, since none of the labels declares energy.