Bob & Lush Puppy Wet review

The tinned multipacks sit in our Outstanding band, a step above the Excellent band where the middle of the wet puppy field lands. Protein and processing comes back Excellent. Nutritional balance reads Outstanding, and so do transparency and value.

The pouches carry the identical recipe but come out in our Good band, and the reason is the label and not the bowl. No additive panel is published on them, and their energy figure has to be estimated. Nutritional balance still reads Outstanding there and transparency Excellent. Choosing between the packs is choosing a format, not a different food.

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

Lamb at 70% is broken down properly: meat, heart, liver and tripe, each named. A natural diet keeps much of its nutrition in the organs. Liver is dense in vitamin A, copper and B12, and tripe brings the kind of easy digestibility a young stomach takes to. Protein converts to 50.0% of dry matter as a result, a strong figure for a wet food.

Lamb broth at 23% supplies the moisture, and it comes from the same animal as the meat, so the liquid in the pack carries flavour and gelatine of its own. Carrots at 5% add soluble fibre and beta carotene. Carbohydrate is estimated at 1.6%, converting to 6.7% of dry matter against the 13.6% typical of a wet puppy food, so there is very little filler here to speak of.

Linseed oil at 1% supplies plant omega 3 for coat and brain development. It is the only added oil, which keeps every animal ingredient in the recipe lamb and makes this a genuine option for a pup being reared on one protein.

Minerals at 1% deliver the growth package, and calcium is declared at 1.67% of dry matter. Seeing that number printed at all is a good sign on a wet food, since most simply leave it off. It sits comfortably for small and medium growth and higher than the level big breed rearing usually works to, which is why the note above matters for a large pup.

Fat converts to 33.3% of dry matter and fibre to just 1.7%, the profile of a rich, meat heavy food rather than a bulked one. The tins print their vitamin and trace mineral panel in full. Vitamins A, D3 and E are there, with zinc, manganese, iodine and selenium alongside them.

This is the tinned form, sold in 6 x 200g and 6 x 400g multipacks. Its energy is declared on the label at 144 kcal per 100g. The added panel is printed in full too: vitamins A, D3 and E, joined by zinc, manganese, iodine and selenium.

£8.75 a kilo for the tinned multipacks, sold as 6 x 200g and 6 x 400g, and £14.99 a kilo for the 20 x 100g pouch box.

Wet food goes into the bowl in bigger volumes than kibble, and a puppy's daily amount climbs week by week. The growth chart on the pack is the place to start, and your pup's own shape decides the rest.