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Years Complete Nutrition System: Chicken Thigh Vegetable Casserole review

Name: Years Complete Nutrition System: Chicken Thigh Vegetable Casserole
Brand: Years

83.1/100Outstanding

FreshAdult

Flavour

Gently cooked fresh food in trays, with labels unusually literal about what goes in. Every recipe lists its muscle and organ cuts separately, each with a percentage, never pooled behind one meat line. All five sit in our Outstanding band, with every pillar Outstanding.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Anyone curious about fresh feeding who wants a label that shows its working
Owners who like a percentage against almost every line
Dogs that do well on real offal: heart and liver are named and figured on every land meat tray
Rotation across chicken, turkey, pork, beef and fish under one system
Dogs kept to one animal, as the four land meat trays each stay with one species
Adult dogs of any build, toy through giant

Worth watching

Salmon and pollock share a tray, so a one-protein dog needs a land meat recipe
Buckwheat and quinoa on every label: seeds, not cereals, but doing a starch job
An opened tray lives in the fridge and must be used within the label's window

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

How this scores

How we score

83.1/100Outstanding

Protein and processingOutstanding

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adults of every size. Start a steadier dog on the chicken, the lightest tray, and let the waistline decide where in the label's daily band it settles.

Food type

Fresh

Life stage

Adult

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Steak 84.8
Salmon 83.9
Pork Shoulder Sage 83.6
Chicken Thigh Vegetable Casserole 83.1
Turkey Thigh Cranberry Fricassee 83.0

All five Outstanding. Typical fresh food: Outstanding.

The five scores sit almost on top of each other, and holding fresh food's own high line across a whole range is a real result; let your dog's favourite animal decide.

What's in it

Fresh chicken leg (thigh and drumstick)15%Itself broken down: 60% thigh, 40% drumstick.
Fresh chicken gizzards, heart, liver15% eachOrgan cuts matching the leg, each with its own figure.
Fresh sweet potato, fresh red pepper11%, 9.5%Do the most work behind the bird.
Fresh pre-soaked buckwheat7.2%The starch; a seed, not a cereal.
Spinach leaf, courgette, apple2.8% down to 1%
Rosemary-infused sunflower oil, organic hempseed oil2.17%, 0.2%Rosemary is a natural antioxidant that keeps the oil fresh.
Nutritional yeast, vitamins and minerals, taurine1%, 1%, 0.25%Taurine is added on purpose, for heart function.
Pre-soaked quinoa0.8%
Oregano, algae, alfalfa, nettle, chicory root, kelp, chamomile, dandelion0.05% down to 0.01%

A premix at 1% with its panel printed per kilo, calcium at 4874mg among it.

Named ingredients

Fresh Chicken Leg (15%) [Fresh Chicken thigh 60%, Fresh Chicken drumstick 40%], Fresh Chicken Gizzards (15%), Fresh Chicken Heart (15%), Fresh Chicken Liver (15%), Fresh Sweet Potato (11%), Fresh Red Pepper (9.5%), Fresh Pre-soaked Buckwheat (7.2%), Fresh Spinach Leaf (2.8%), Cold-Pressed Rosemary-infused Sunflower Oil (2.17%), Fresh Courgette (2%), Deactivated Nutritional Yeast (1%), Fresh Apple (1%), Vitamins & Minerals (1%), Fresh Pre-soaked Quinoa (0.8%), Taurine (0.25%), Cold-Pressed Organic Hempseed Oil (0.2%), Sun Dried Oregano (0.05%), Algae Powder (0.05%), Alfalfa powder (0.05%), Nettle Powder (0.04%), Chicory Root Powder (0.04%), Kelp Powder (0.03%), Chamomile Powder (0.02%), Dandelion Powder (0.01%).

Against the range

Animals: Chicken leg and three organs; One species on the turkey, pork and beef too.
Energy: 140 kcal per 100g; The lightest tray; the beef is 177.
Fat, dry matter: 21.0%; Lowest; up to 29.9% on the turkey.

The gentlest tray on energy, and the natural starting point for a steadier dog.

On every tray the named animal entries add up to 60%, split between muscle and organ cuts listed one by one, each with a figure. Moisture runs from 65.9% to 70.0%, so those are wet weights, not a dried concentrate.

Pre-soaked buckwheat and quinoa carry the starch with no cereal involved, and sweet potato, peppers, parsnip and spinach fill in around them. A rosemary-infused sunflower oil and organic hempseed oil, nutritional yeast and added taurine run through all five, and a tail of herb powders closes each list.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

140 kcal/100g

Protein

12.8%

Fat

6.3%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

70%

Dry weight

Protein

42.7%

Fat

21%

Fibre

1.7%

Ash

8.3%

Carbs

26.3%

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

72.8%

Carbs

13.2%

Veg

4.2%

Oils

1.6%

Other

8.2%

Pricing & size

Price per kilo: £9.48 (RRP)
Pack: 280 g, 630 g, 770 g, 875 g, 980 g, 1155 g trays (single tray, or 1-4 of each); also sold as a "pack of 4", and to retail stockists as 8 × 320 g and 8 × 630 g
A 15kg dog eats: 330 to 420 g a day, 375 in the middle
Cost per day, 15kg dog: £3.56

Middle of the market for a gently cooked fresh food, and strong value for what is in the recipe.

Ingredients and nutrition are taken from manufacturer data. Retailer pricing is not yet live for this food.