ZIWI Original Canned Wet Beef Recipe for dogs

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ZIWI Original Canned Wet Beef Recipe for dogs

WetCompleteAdultGrain-free
65/ 100

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 28 Sep 2026

Good points

  • 68% meat
  • Low starch, about 16% carbs
  • One animal protein: beef

First ingredients: 65% Beef and Beef Organs (including Beef, Lung, Kidney, Tripe, Liver, Bone, Cartilage), Chickpeas, 3% New Zealand Green Mussel… All ingredients

Label taken from the maker’s website
Meat
68%
Protein, dry weight
45%
Carbs, dry weight
~16%
kcal/100 g
125

Ingredients

Listed first: Beef and Beef Organs. 68% of the recipe is declared meat.

65% Beef and Beef Organs (including Beef, Lung, Kidney, Tripe, Liver, Bone, Cartilage), Chickpeas, 3% New Zealand Green Mussel, Lecithin, Minerals, Dried Kelp

Meat named animal protein

From the maker’s website, checked 28 Sep 2026.

Additives

per kg: Vitamin D3 695 IU, Zinc (as Zinc Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 34 mg, Copper (as Copper (II) Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 3.7 mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Chelate of Glycine Hydrate) 20 mg, Manganese (as Manganese Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 3.3mg.

How we read this label

First ingredient: “65% Beef and Beef Organs”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
65% Beef and Beef Organs (including Beef, Lung, Kidney, Tri…Named meat65%
ChickpeasVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
3% New Zealand Green MusselNamed meat3%
LecithinOtherNot given
MineralsOtherNot given
Dried KelpVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Nutritional Additives (OtherNot given

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Nutrition

Protein 45% and carbs about 16%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein11%45%
within the usual 38 to 48% for wet foods
Fat7%29%
Carbohydrate~4%~16%
within the usual 9 to 21% for wet foods
Fibre0.5%2%
Ash2%8.2%
Moisture75.5%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.

Energy125 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 65

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

  1. How much meat?

    27.9 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label23.8 / 35 points

      68% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level4.1 / 10 points

      Protein is 44.9% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    14.6 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 16.3% 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?

    15 / 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 meat3 / 3 points

      Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.

No ingredient deductions.

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

Against other wet foods

Top 24% of wet foods. 37 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

Nothing flagged in 9 ingredients. 1 is not in our ingredient database yet.

9 ingredients with nothing flagged

Beef, chickpeas, green-lipped mussel, minerals

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iron, manganese, vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

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

Sources for these ingredients
1 not in our ingredient database yet

Lecithin

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: ZIWI. Checked 4 Oct 2026.

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

Sold in multipacks. Prices are for the whole pack.

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
ZIWI390g (Case of 12) · £56.19390g (Case of 12)£56.19£12.01/kgCheapest in stockVisit
ZIWI170g (Case of 12) · £38.19170g (Case of 12)£38.19£18.72/kgVisit

Price unchanged since 28 Sep (2 readings, one a week).

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026ZIWI170g (Case of 12)£38.19£18.72/kg
4 Oct 2026ZIWI390g (Case of 12)£56.19£12.01/kg
28 Sep 2026ZIWI170g (Case of 12)£38.19£18.72/kg
28 Sep 2026ZIWI390g (Case of 12)£56.19£12.01/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

4 wet foods score 6 to 18 points higher at the same price or less.

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Carbs
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To feed
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Carbs
about 0% this food about 16%
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+12 pointsCompare

Meat
75% this food 68%
Carbs
about 4% this food about 16%
To feed
47% less per 1,000 kcal

+8 pointsCompare

Meat
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Carbs
about 8% this food about 16%
To feed
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+6 pointsCompare

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

Sources

Taken from the maker’s page, checked 28 Sep 2026.

From the maker’s website. The ingredients and analysis here are the maker’s current label, from their product page, checked 28 Sep 2026. Shops may still stock packs with the older recipe.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: ZIWI (the maker).

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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