Health Extension Gently Cooked Chicken And Pumpkin Recipe Wet Dog Food
Wet food in 3.0 oz pouches, complete and balanced for all life stages. With the water taken out it is 45% protein and 23% fat, and each pouch carries 128 kcal.
- Complete & balanced for all life stages (AAFCO, on the label)
- 3.0 oz pouch
- 78% water
*For a 45 lb adult dog on this food alone. Set your own dog.
Ingredient Wiki
Chicken
The clean flesh of the chicken, with or without skin, used fresh. Roughly 70% of its weight is water, most…
Carrots
The root of the carrot plant, used fresh, cooked or dried.
Pumpkin
The flesh of the pumpkin squash, used cooked or dried in dog food.
Brown Rice
Rice with only the inedible outer hull removed, so the bran and germ stay on the grain.
Green Peas
The immature green seed of the pea plant, used fresh or dried.
Our read The ingredients
A decent chicken stew, sold like fresh food
Signature feature
Bowl ready, not frozen
Real food doesn't have to live in the freezer. We cooked for you.
What it is Chicken, carrot, pumpkin, brown rice and peas cooked in bone broth, sixth on the list, and sealed in a pouch that keeps in the pantry.
Our grade
- Marketing
- Modest
- Meaningful
Sealing food in a pouch and heat-treating it is how every canned dog food has stayed shelf-stable for decades. It saves you thawing; it doesn't make the food fresher than a can.
Modest Real, but smaller than the pack makes it sound.
Goji berry, coconut oil and turmeric get billing on the pouch front, yet all three sit below the salt and the vitamin pack.
- 21 Goji Berry
- 22 Coconut Oil
- 24 Turmeric
- 7 Salt
What’s in the pouch
- First meat
- Chicken, first on the list.
- Thickeners and binders
- None we recognize.
- Added color
- None listed.
- Flagged additives
- None from our list.
Guaranteed
Analysis
As printed on the pouch, measured “as fed”
- Calories
- 1,500 kcal/kg
- Crude Protein (min.)
- 10.0%
- Crude Fat (min.)
- 5.0%
- Crude Fiber (max.)
- 3.0%
- Moisture (max.)
- 78.0%
128 kcal per 3.0 oz pouch, worked out from the kcal/kg figure and the pouch size.
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Full Ingredient
Declaration
Exactly as the pouch prints it, heaviest first
Chicken, Carrot, pumpkin, Brown Rice, Green Pea, Chicken Bone Broth, 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., Inulin, Sunflower Oil, Tricalcium Phosphate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Zinc Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Vitamins (Vitamin C Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Pantothenic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Choline Chloride, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement), Potassium Chloride, Magnesium Sulfate, Sage, Thyme, Rosemary, Goji Berry, Coconut Oil, Kelp Powder, Turmeric, Selenium Yeast, Potassium Iodide
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 | 10.0% | 45.5% | 43.2% |
| FAT | 5.0% | 22.7% | 22.2% |
| FIBER | 3.0% | 13.6% | - |
| CARBS (EST.) | - | 9.1% | - |
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
A fat-forward wet food you can feed alone
55%
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Is it a high-protein food?
A bit above
45.5% protein on a dry basis against 42.1% for the average wet food we list. Chicken leads, but rice and peas share the pouch.
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Is it a meal?
Yes
Health Extension sells it as complete and balanced for all life stages, so it works as the whole bowl, not only a topper.
- Feed it to
- Adults and puppies that do well on chicken and rice, and owners who want cooked food without freezer space.
- Skip it for
- Dogs allergic to chicken, fat-sensitive dogs or those with a history of pancreatitis, and owners buying it for the goji and turmeric.
What a pouch costs
| SIZE | LOWEST PRICE | PER LB | WHERE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 oz | $2.49LIVE | $13.11 | PetSmart |
| 3.2 oz | $1.99 | $9.95 | PetSmart lowest of 3 stores |
| 9 oz | $4.99LIVE | $8.91 | PetSmart |
| 9.6 oz | $4.99 | $8.32 | PetSmart lowest of 2 stores |
Prices marked LIVE were read from the store on Oct 18. Others are from our check on Sep 30. Prices change often; the store’s price at checkout is the one that counts. We may earn a commission on some links.
Daily portion calculator
Calculated from the resting energy formula vets use and this food’s actual calorie density (1,500 kcal per kg, 128 kcal per pouch). A starting point to adjust from, not a prescription.
No Recalls In Our Record Since 2012
We have not matched any FDA recall to Health Extension. 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.
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