Dave’s Pet Food Naturally Healthy Chicken & Beef Entrée For Dogs / Wet Dog Food
Wet food in 13.2 oz cans, complete and balanced. With the water taken out it is 41% protein and 27% fat.
- Complete & balanced (AAFCO, on the label)
- 13.2 oz can
- 78% water
Ingredient Wiki
Water Sufficient for Processing
Water added to a recipe so it can be mixed, cooked and canned, as distinct from moisture native to the…
Beef Liver
The liver of cattle, an organ meat.
Beef
The clean flesh of cattle, used fresh. Like all fresh meats it is mostly water before cooking.
Chicken
The clean flesh of the chicken, with or without skin, used fresh. Roughly 70% of its weight is water, most…
Dried Egg Product
Egg content dried and processed into a concentrated, stable ingredient.
Our read The ingredients
A liver-led pâté wearing a chicken and beef name
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Chicken & Beef Entrée
Naturally healthy chicken & beef entrée complete and balanced pâté adult dog food
What it is The meats in the name sit third and fourth on the list, beef then chicken, behind water and beef liver, with dried egg right after them.
Our grade
- Marketing
- Modest
- Meaningful
Under AAFCO naming rules, an entrée only needs its named meats to make up 25% of the recipe. Both are real and plentiful here, but liver outranks them, so your dog is eating an organ-rich pâté.
Modest Real, but smaller than the pack makes it sound.
Beef liver sits second, ahead of both meats on the can. It's rich in vitamin A and copper, a fair reason to keep this as the main food rather than layering on liver treats.
- 2 beef liver
- 3 beef
- 4 chicken
- 9 Salt
What’s in the can
- First ingredient
- Water sufficient for processing, there for moisture. Almost every wet food opens with water or broth; what follows it is the recipe.
- First meat
- beef liver, second on the list. Named meats near the top: beef liver, beef, chicken and dried egg product.
- Thickeners and binders
- guar gum, sodium tripolyphosphate and carrageenan. They give the food its texture and hold pieces together. Normal in wet food; starches and flours also add carbohydrate.
- Added color
- None listed.
- Flagged additives
- None from our list.
Guaranteed
Analysis
As printed on the can, measured “as fed”
- Crude Protein (min.)
- 9.0%
- Crude Fat (min.)
- 6.0%
- Crude Fiber (max.)
- 1.0%
- Moisture (max.)
- 78.0%
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Full Ingredient
Declaration
Exactly as the can prints it, heaviest first
Water sufficient for processing, beef liver, beef, chicken, dried egg product, tricalcium phosphate, guar gum, sodium tripolyphosphate, salt*The Salt Divider. Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after this point is present in an even smaller amount., potassium chloride, carrageenan, vitamins*, choline chloride, minerals**. *vitamins: vitamin e, a, b12, D3 supplements, thiamine mononitrate, biotin, riboflavin supplement. **minerals: ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, copper proteinate, manganous sulfate, potassium iodide, sodium selenite
Ingredients are listed heaviest first, and a dog food needs very little salt, so everything after the divider is present in an even smaller amount.
Wet food is mostly water, so the label’s percentages look small next to kibble. Taking the water out is the only fair way to compare it with other foods.
| NUTRIENT | ON THE LABEL | WATER OUT | WET FOOD MEDIAN |
|---|---|---|---|
| PROTEIN | 9.0% | 40.9% | 43.2% |
| FAT | 6.0% | 27.3% | 22.2% |
| FIBER | 1.0% | 4.5% | - |
| CARBS (EST.) | - | 18.2% | - |
Carbohydrate is not on any label: it is what is left after protein, fat, fiber, water and an assumed 2% ash.
Our read The label
Rich, starch-free meat pâté with average protein
62%
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Is it a high-protein food?
About average
Protein sits a touch under the 42% dry-basis average for wet foods we list. Fat, not protein, is what sets this can apart.
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Is there starch in it?
Next to none
Carbs estimate at zero against a 19.2% wet food average. Guar gum and carrageenan, not starch, hold the pâté together.
- Feed it to
- Healthy adult dogs that do well on beef, chicken and egg, and owners who want a starch-free wet food.
- Skip it for
- Puppies, dogs with pancreatitis or on a low-fat diet, and dogs allergic to beef, chicken or egg.
No Recalls In Our Record Since 2012
We have not matched any FDA recall to Dave's Pet Food. We check the feed daily and this page updates when that changes. See the recall log
Other Flavors
Protein with the water taken out, read the same way.
Similar recipes from other brands
Other wet food recipes with the closest protein, fat and moisture as fed, the way the label prints them. Prescription diets are left out.
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