Fidelis Fresh Menu (novel protein recipes): Lamb with Sweet Potato, Kale & Apple review

All three jars sit in our Outstanding band, which is also where the typical fresh food sits, so choosing an unusual meat here asks for no compromise anywhere else. The three finish level with one another on our scoring, which means the decision is purely about which animal your dog has not met before. Protein and processing, nutritional balance and transparency read Outstanding on every label, and a single-species ingredient list with a figure against nearly every entry is exactly the kind of label that earns it.

Ingredients, as declared: Fresh Lamb Muscle Meat (60%), Fresh Lamb Offal (10%), Fresh Sweet Potato (4%), Fresh Apple (3%), Fresh Peas (3%), Fresh Carrot (3%), Fresh Broccoli (3%), Fresh Courgette (2%), Brewer's Yeast (2%), Fresh Blueberries (2%), Hemp Seed Oil (2%), Fresh Cranberries (1.4%), Fresh Kale (1%), Sunflower Seeds (1%), Pumpkin Seeds (1%), Algae Powder (0.7%), Rosehip Shells (0.4%), Rosemary (0.3%), Seaweed Powder (0.2%)

What sets these three apart is partly what is missing. Each label runs 60% fresh muscle meat and 10% fresh offal from one animal, and no second species appears anywhere further down: no unnamed fat, no fish oil, no egg. That matters, because those are the entries that usually break a single-protein claim quietly, and an elimination trial only works when the list is genuinely clean.

Declaring the offal share separately is unusual and worth crediting. Organ meat carries copper, vitamin A, B12 and iron in concentrations muscle meat cannot reach, and 10% is a working amount. Because the meat is cooked gently rather than pushed through an extruder, it also keeps more of the aroma that persuades a hesitant dog to commit to the bowl.

Produce does the rest, and it is fresh, with no milled starch on the list. Carrot, kale, courgette, beetroot, broccoli, sweet potato and peas appear across the three, with apple, peach, blueberries and cranberries on the fruit side, almost all pinned between 1% and 5%. Estimated carbohydrate lands between 17.2% and 18.7% of dry matter, a light load for a complete food.

The fats come from plants here. Algae oil at 1.4% on the Goat and 1.5% on the Horse supplies the long-chain omega 3 that usually arrives with fish, and it is grown, not caught. The Lamb uses hemp seed oil at 2% in its place. Sunflower and pumpkin seeds at 1% each appear on all three, and rosemary closes every list as a natural antioxidant that keeps those oils from turning.

The added panel is short and identical across the three: vitamin D at 35 IU per 100g with manganese, copper, selenium and zinc. Brewer's yeast at 2% brings the B vitamins, algae powder and seaweed powder supply trace minerals and iodine in fractions of a percent, and rosehip shells at 0.4% close each list. There is no long synthetic vitamin panel, which fits a recipe leaning on its ingredients to do the work.

Lamb muscle meat at 60% with 10% lamb offal, the familiar meat of the trio and much the richest, with fat converting to 30.9% of dry matter. Hemp seed oil at 2% replaces the algae oil used on the other two, and the produce list is the longest here, running from sweet potato and broccoli through kale, blueberries and cranberries. A dog that needs feeding up will do well on this one.

The jar is 400g on all three, and packs run to 6, 12 or 18.

Most of the weight in these jars is water, which is what makes the daily amount look big. Working from roughly 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate), a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition eats about 622 grams a day on the Lamb. The Goat and the Horse come to 646 grams.