Lily's Kitchen Organic Trays Puppy review

This tray reaches our Good band. In our scoring the wet puppy shelf is a strong one, with the typical example a band higher in Excellent, so Good here means solid company and nothing more remarkable than that. Nutritional balance reads Outstanding, transparency Excellent and protein and processing Good. What keeps the tray from climbing is a label that names four animals but stops short of naming the fish or printing a calcium figure.

Ingredients, as declared: Organic Chicken* (28%), Organic Pork* (12%), Organic Beef* (10%), Organic Fish* (7%), Organic Carrots* (2.8%), Organic Peas* (2.8%), Minerals, Organic Spirulina*. *Natural Ingredient.

Four meats do the work and the label counts them out: organic chicken at 28%, organic pork at 12%, organic beef at 10% and organic fish at 7%. Add those declared shares together and 57% of the tray is animal, generous for a wet food and the reason the analysis reads the way it does.

Pork is the interesting entry. It appears in far fewer recipes than chicken or beef, so plenty of puppies have never eaten it. With three other animals sharing the tray, though, that is a point of interest and not a tool for an exclusion diet.

Behind the meat there is very little: organic carrots and organic peas at 2.8% apiece, added minerals and a pinch of organic spirulina. The carbohydrate estimate comes out at 0.0%, which is about as close to a meat-only bowl as a complete food gets.

The analysis follows from that build. Protein converts to 55.6% of dry matter and fat to 30.6%, both high figures, while fibre is minimal at 1.7%. A rich mix like this suits little and often feeding while a young digestion learns its way around it.

Ash converts to 12.2% of dry matter, so the mineral side is well stocked, but the added minerals are not broken out and no calcium figure is printed. That is a minor gap on a small or medium pup. Calcium is the figure the whole rearing plan turns on when a puppy is expected to finish large, and there is none printed here to check.

Energy is modest at 87 kcal per 100g against the 106 typical for the format, partly because there is no starch carrying calories along. Trays stretch further on a small puppy than a big one, which makes the growth chart matter more here than usual.

£14.33 a kilo, sold in 150g trays.

A puppy's tray count shifts month by month. Take it from the maker's guide for their age and their expected adult size, then adjust by how well they are covering their ribs.