Winalot Cod In Gravy review

Our Average band is where this case comes to rest, with the typical adult wet food two bands clear of it in Excellent. Protein and processing reads Good, with nutritional balance and transparency both Excellent. The label names an animal in every recipe, then hands the rest of the meat, the grain and the plant protein over to category terms. Protein converting to 37.1% of dry matter is doing a good deal of the work in holding the placement where it is, and the moderate estimated carbohydrate helps too.

Ingredients, as declared: Chicken, Meat and animal derivatives (of which Chicken 4%; 96% natural ingredients*), Cereals*, Vegetable protein extracts, Minerals, Various sugars, *Natural ingredients, Cod, Meat and animal derivatives (96% natural ingredients*), Cereals*, Fish and fish derivatives* (Cod 4%), Vegetable protein extracts, Minerals, Various sugars, *Natural ingredients, Lamb & Turkey, Meat and animal derivatives (of which lamb 4% and turkey 4%; 96% natural ingredients*), Cereals*, Vegetable protein extracts, Minerals, Various sugars, *Natural ingredients.

Three recipes, one grammar. Meat and animal derivatives leads each list with the flavour animal fixed inside it, chicken at 4% in one tin, cod at 4% in another and lamb and turkey at 4% apiece in the third. The term itself is wide enough to cover any warm-blooded land animal and any part of the carcass. The flavour name is a promise about taste. It is not a full account of what is in the tin.

The cod tin adds a fish and fish derivatives entry, which is where its 4% of cod is declared. That term is just as broad on the fish side as the meat one is on land, covering anything from prime fillet trimmings to the leftovers of processing. What it does tell you clearly is that fish is present, which is the part that matters if you are avoiding it.

Cereals sit second on each list with vegetable protein extracts behind them, neither of them named. Between them they account for an estimated 28.0% of dry matter as carbohydrate, where the typical adult wet food runs at 15.8%. Various sugars close the list, doing the usual work of lifting palatability in a gravy tin.

The panel behind all this is more forthcoming. Protein converts to 37.1% of dry matter and fat to 20.0%, a sensible pairing for an unfussy adult dog, and energy is declared at 75 kcal per 100g rather than estimated. Vitamins A, D3 and E are printed at 1800, 172 and 25 IU/kg. The trace minerals are dosed individually, with zinc at 19 mg/kg, iron at 12 mg/kg, manganese at 1.5 mg/kg, copper at 1.4 mg/kg and iodine at 0.41 mg/kg.

Sold as a case of 6 tins at 400g each.

A 15kg adult dog in moderate condition, assumed to need about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate), would work through roughly 1120 grams a day. The tin's own guide runs heavier still, putting a dog between 12kg and 25kg on 1000 to 1600 grams a day.