Almo Nature

Almo Nature HFC Complete: Veal with Ham review

Name: Almo Nature HFC Complete: Veal with Ham
Brand: Almo Nature

69/100Good

WetAdult

Flavour

Small tins built on named, sourced meat, with three in our Excellent band and two just behind in Good. Icelandic lamb, Irish Angus beef and North Atlantic pollock each come with an origin as well as a species. Starch is very nearly absent, and the lists are short enough to read in one breath.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Owners who want provenance on the label
Dogs that do best on almost no starch
Dogs that need the moisture: four tins run to 82.0% water
Smaller dogs. The everyday tin is a single serving
Dogs that eat better on rotation, since only the animal changes

Worth watching

Pork and chicken behind the headline animal in every tin, so none can carry an elimination diet
Fish oil on all five labels
No declared energy figure, so calories and portions are our estimate

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

How this scores

How we score

69/100Good

Protein and processingGood

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueGood

The details

Dog fit

Listed for adult dogs. At around 80 kcal per 100g these are light tins, so the daily weight runs high and many owners pair them with another food.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Adult

Main protein

Chicken

The score, in context

Icelandic lamb 75.2
North Atlantic pollock 73.3
Irish Angus Beef 73.1
Ham 69.8
Veal 69.0

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

The five sit close together; the ham and veal fall a shade behind because their headline meat adds little new to the pork and chicken base.

What's in it

Veal26%
Chicken23%
Pork9%
Ham4%Every animal here carries a percentage.
Minerals
Fish oil0.2%Token level, confirmed by the figure.
Chicory0.1%

Vitamin D3 with zinc, manganese, copper and iodine, dosed in print; vitamin E is left out.

No vitamin E in the added panel, unlike the rest of the range.

Named ingredients

26% veal, 23% chicken, 9% pork, 4% ham, minerals, 0.2% fish oil, 0.1% chicory.

Against the range

Tin: 150 g; 85 g for the other four
Moisture: 80.0%; 82.0% elsewhere
Carbohydrate, dry matter: 12.5%; 6.1% on the other four
Protein, dry matter: 50.0%; 52.8% on the other four

The odd one out on every count, and the most fully declared meat list in the range.

Every tin follows one construction: the headline animal at 26%, pork and chicken behind it, a named vegetable at 4%, then minerals, fish oil and chicory. Seven or eight entries, all named. Four recipes share one analysis, with protein at 52.8% of dry matter and carbohydrate estimated at 6.1%.

The veal is the exception: a 150 g tin at 80.0% moisture, a percentage on every animal, carbohydrate at 12.5% of dry matter and no vitamin E in its added panel. No label in the range declares an energy figure.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

86.2 kcal/100g

Estimated using Modified Atwater factors*

Protein

10%

Fat

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

Moisture

80%

Dry weight

Protein

50%

Fat

25%

Fibre

2.5%

Ash

10%

Carbs

12.5%

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

62%

Added water

22.6%

Veg

0.1%

Oils

0.2%

Other

15.1%

Pricing & size