Almo Nature Daily Adult: Turkey review

The three tins land together in our Average band, and nothing in the analysis explains why. Protein converts to 47.2% of dry matter, fat to 36.1%, and estimated carbohydrate to 2.8% where the typical adult wet food runs at 15.8%. What pulls the placement down is that the label describes almost nothing. A recipe that names one animal at 4% and hands the rest to a category term gives a scoring system very little it can reward. Nutritional balance reads Outstanding, while protein and processing and transparency both read Good.

For context, the shelf these tins sit on is a strong one, and the typical adult wet food occupies our Excellent band because wet recipes tend to be meat-led and low in starch. By its analysis this is both of those things. It simply will not say so on the ingredient list, and that gap between what the food appears to be and what the label is willing to confirm is the whole story of the placement.

Ingredients, as declared: meat and animal derivatives (4% turkey), minerals, 0.02% rosemary.

Three entries make up the entire list. Meat and animal derivatives is the legal category covering the fleshy parts and by-products of warm-blooded land animals. That stretches from prime cuts to the least glamorous trimmings, and the label does not say where in that range this tin falls. The named animal at 4% is the only species pinned down, and it is the only thing separating one tin from the next.

That is not the hygiene worry it is sometimes made out to be. Plenty of decent European wet foods use category terms because labelling customs at home differ from ours. The analysis here is honestly meat-shaped: protein at 47.2% of dry matter with fat at 36.1% describes a rich, savoury loaf. What you cannot do is read it. That is a fair thing to weigh up, and nothing to be alarmed about.

Rosemary at 0.02% closes the list. At that level it is working as a natural antioxidant, keeping the fats in the tin from turning, rather than as a herb with anything of its own to contribute.

The added panel is short and printed in full: vitamin D3 at 200 IU with iodine, manganese and zinc each dosed beside it. Cassia gum appears in the same panel at 2.6 g, and it is a thickener, the ingredient that gives a wet food its set. It is common in tinned food and it is also one of the more debated entries in the category, so it is worth knowing that it is in there.

Turkey is the named 4% in this tin, the poultry many owners reach for once chicken has stopped being interesting. The analysis matches the other two exactly, so the change here is one of name and taste rather than of nutrition.

£4.97 a kilo, in 400 g tins sold by the case of 24.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition would get through about 968 grams a day, which comes to £4.81, assuming around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). No energy figure is declared on the tin, so that portion rests on our estimate of 87 kcal per 100g.