Bob & Lush Adult Wet review

Wet food does well on our scoring, and the typical adult tin already reaches our Excellent band. This one clears that mark, with transparency, nutritional balance and value all Outstanding and protein and processing Excellent, a set very few wet foods manage. The reasons are all readable on the label: one animal at 70%, its own broth declared at 23% rather than slipped in as unnamed water, and a plant list that stops at carrots. Protein converts to 46.2% of dry matter and estimated carbohydrate to 13.8%, a shade under the 15.8% typical of adult wet food.

Ingredients, as declared: Lamb 70% (Meat, Heart, Liver, Tripe), Lamb Broth (23%), Carrots (5%), Minerals (1%), Linseed Oil (1%).

Lamb at 70% opens the list, and the label does the rare thing of saying what that lamb is: muscle meat with heart, liver and tripe alongside it. Organ meat and tripe are nutrient dense and easy for a dog to digest, and putting them in print suggests a recipe built from a whole animal rather than from whatever was left over. Protein converts to 46.2% of dry matter and fat to 30.8%. The analysis is genuinely meat led.

The lamb broth at 23% carries its own percentage, so the liquid in the tin is accounted for. It is also why the single animal reading holds: broth is the usual place a second species slips in, and here it does not.

Carrots at 5% are the only vegetable and linseed oil at 1% is the only added fat. Linseed brings omega-3 in its plant form, not the same molecule a marine oil supplies. It is the sensible choice for a recipe determined to stay on one animal, since fish oil would have ended that.

The added panel is short and every line carries a dose, with vitamins A, D3 and E and four trace elements printed per kilo. Selenium comes as sodium selenite, the form most makers reach for, and calcium converts to 1.54% of dry matter, a comfortable level for adult maintenance.

Energy is where this tin parts company with the category. At 144 kcal per 100g against the 97 typical of adult wet food, a bowlful goes further, which suits a dog with a small appetite and asks a little care from anyone serving by eye.

£6.25 a kilo, in 200g, 400g and 800g tins, each sold in packs of six.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at about £3.65 a day on roughly 583 grams, taking maintenance as about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard estimate). That is three of the 200g tins.