Akela

Akela Wet Working Dog Food: Spring Lamb review

Name: Akela Wet Working Dog Food: Spring Lamb
Brand: Akela

84.3/100Outstanding

WetPuppyAdult

Flavour

Cans built for dogs that burn through their dinner, with four recipes in our Outstanding band and Fish Feast in Excellent. Every animal on the five labels is named with a percentage beside it. At 116 to 119 kcal per 100g they are energy-dense for wet food.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Working and sporting dogs
Owners who want every animal named, salmon and herring through to reindeer
A single named meat: the Kangaroo keeps its meat to kangaroo
Dogs that have worked through the usual proteins, with venison, wild boar and reindeer on the shelf
A puppy and an older dog fed from the same can
Dogs that never drink enough. Roughly three quarters of the can is water

Worth watching

Green-lipped mussel in Spring Lamb, Original and Fish Feast, so those are not shellfish free
Prawn in Fish Feast
No figure for the joint compounds on the mussel recipes
No added vitamin and mineral panel on Spring Lamb

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

How this scores

How we score

84.3/100Outstanding

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueOutstanding

The details

Dog fit

Every recipe is listed for puppies, adults and seniors of every size. The cans are denser than the wet shelf around them, so daily portions run smaller.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy, Adult, Senior

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Lamb

The score, in context

Kangaroo 87.8
Wild Game 87.8
Original Meat 85.5
Spring Lamb 84.3
Fish Feast 79.2

Five recipes across Outstanding and Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

The range holds together closely whichever animal you pick, with Fish Feast a step behind the other four.

What's in it

Freshly prepared lamb: hearts, meat, lung, liver, tripe70%The animal opened right up. Organ meat carries much of a wet food's natural vitamins and minerals.
Minerals
Cranberries, asparagus, carrots, green beans, blueberries
Green-lipped musselCarries glucosamine and chondroitin naturally, with no figure printed. Shellfish.
Coconut
Seaweed, valerian, camomile, marjoram, nettle, watercress, basil, sage, dill, green tea, aloe vera, rosehipsTrace level. Not what you buy the food for.
Borage oil, prebiotic FOSBorage oil brings gamma-linolenic acid; FOS feeds the gut bacteria.

The one label in the range with no added vitamin and mineral panel.

Lamb is the only meat, but green-lipped mussel makes it not shellfish free.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Lamb 70% (Hearts, Meat, Lung, Liver, Tripe), Minerals, Cranberries, Asparagus, Carrots, Green Beans, Blueberries, Green-Lipped Mussel, Coconut, Seaweed, Valerian, Camomile, Marjoram, Stinging Nettle, Watercress, Basil, Sage, Dill, Green Tea, Aloe Vera, Rosehips, Borage Oil, Prebiotic FOS.

Against the range

Meat: Lamb, organs named; The only label to list organs
Added panel: None printed; Printed on the other four
Protein, dry matter: 43.6%; Joint highest, with Original Meat & Fish

The single red meat with its organs spelled out.

Every recipe leads on freshly prepared meat or fish at 65% or more, each animal named with a percentage, and none has grain. Only Fish Feast carries a starch ingredient. The rest of the plant side is berries, vegetables and coconut at modest levels, then a long trace-level herbal finish shared by all five.

Joint support comes two ways: Kangaroo and Wild Game print glucosamine and chondroitin, the other three use green-lipped mussel with no figure. The added panel is brief on four labels and missing on Spring Lamb. Protein converts to between 42.0% and 43.6% of dry matter.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

118.6 kcal/100g

Protein

10.9%

Fat

6.3%

Fibre

0.4%

Ash

2.5%

Moisture

75%

Dry weight

Protein

43.6%

Fat

25.2%

Fibre

1.6%

Ash

10%

Carbs

19.6%

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

70.4%

Added water

18%

Carbs

1.1%

Veg

1.2%

Other

9.2%

Pricing & size