Butcher's Grain Free Healthy Heart - Salmon

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Butcher's Grain Free Healthy Heart - Salmon

WetCompleteAdultGrain-free
57/ 100
FairTied 414th of 639 wet foods

21% of wet foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 50% meat
  • Low starch, about 13% carbs
  • No ingredient deductions

First ingredients: British and Irish farmed (chicken 31%, salmon 10%, beef 9%), broth (42.5%, including water and dried seaweed), broccoli (2.3%)… All ingredients

Label checked
Meat
50%
Protein, dry weight
44%
Carbs, dry weight
~13%
kcal/100 g
79

Ingredients

Listed first: British and Irish farmed. 50% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 50%
  • Plants 4%
  • Other 42.6%
  • No amount given 3.4%

British and Irish farmed (chicken 31%, salmon 10%, beef 9%), broth (42.5%, including water and dried seaweed), broccoli (2.3%), butternut squash (1.7%), minerals, dried algae oil (0.12%), parsley, chicory root, rosehip, mint.

Meat named animal protein

Additives

per kg: Nutritional additives: L-carnitine (100mg), taurine (200mg), vitamin A (1250 IU), vitamin E (43mg), vitamin C (20mg), manganese [3b503] (2.5mg), zinc [3b605] (20mg), copper [3b405] (1mg), iodine [3b202] (0.5mg)

How we read this label

First ingredient: “British and Irish farmed”. It isn’t a named meat or fish.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
British and Irish farmed (chicken 31%, salmon 10%, beef 9%)Named meat50%
broth (42.5%, including water and dried seaweed)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient42.5%
broccoli (2.3%)Vegetable, fruit or plant2.3%
butternut squash (1.7%)Vegetable, fruit or plant1.7%
mineralsOtherNot given
dried algae oil (0.12%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient0.1%
parsleyVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
chicory rootVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
rosehipVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
mint.Vegetable, fruit or plantNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 44% and carbs about 13%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein8%44%
within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods
Fat5%28%
Carbohydrate~2.3%~13%
within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods
Fibre0.2%1.1%
Ash2.5%14%
Moisture82%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the wet foods we rate.

Energy79 kcal/100 gCalculated from the analysis.

Why it scores 57

The kind of meat scored best (12 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (8 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    21.6 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label17.5 / 35 points

      50% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level4.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 44.4% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    15.7 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 12.8% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    8 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Cooked in the tin, tray or pouch: 8 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed12 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh, which earns 100% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat0 / 3 points

      No organ meat named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other wet foods

Tied 414th of 639 wet foods. 26 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked wet foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

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Ingredient notes

2 noted, none cost points: mint and parsley. 16 flagged nothing.

  • 2 noted
  • 16 nothing flagged
  • 1 not in our ingredient database yet
16 ingredients with nothing flagged

Algal oil, broccoli, broth (meat stock), chicory root extract, l-carnitine, minerals, pumpkin, rosehips, taurine, tocopherols (vitamin E), vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, manganese, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), zinc

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients
1 not in our ingredient database yet

British and irish farmed

Not in our ingredient database yet, so no judgement either way.

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Zooplus UK. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Sold as part of a mixed pack. This recipe comes in a pack with other recipes, so prices are for the whole pack, and the retailer may give one analysis for all the recipes in it.

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Zooplus UK18 x 390g (mixed pack) · £19.6918 x 390g (mixed pack)£19.69£2.80/kgVisit

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

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Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Read from 1 shop, saved 4 Oct 2026.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Zooplus UK.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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