Lily's Kitchen

Lily's Kitchen Tins Puppy: Turkey & Duck review

Name: Lily's Kitchen Tins Puppy: Turkey & Duck
Brand: Lily's Kitchen

77.2/100Excellent

WetPuppy

Flavour

Two wet growth tins you can read out loud in one go, and both sit in our Excellent band. Fresh meat opens each label and starch is held near the floor. The one gap is the mineral panel: vitamins and chelated minerals are named but not dosed, and no calcium figure is printed.

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Our view

Likely to suit

Puppies who take to a wet dinner
Owners who like a short list of named foods
Pups kept on very little starch
Households feeding kibble too. A tin alongside brings water and appetite to the same meal
A pup kept to one animal, in the chicken tin

Worth watching

No calcium figure on either label, which a large breed growth plan really wants
Salmon oil in both, so neither anchors a fish free diet
Vitamins and minerals named without doses, so there is no panel to check

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

How this scores

How we score

77.2/100Excellent

Protein and processingExcellent

Nutritional balanceOutstanding

TransparencyOutstanding

ValueExcellent

The details

Dog fit

Listed for puppies of every size. Read the tin count off the maker's guide for your pup's age and expected adult weight, and revisit it every few weeks.

Food type

Wet

Life stage

Puppy

Breed size

Toy, Small, Medium, Large, Giant

Main protein

Turkey

The score, in context

Turkey 77.2
Lily's Kitchen Tins Puppy 76.2

All two Excellent. Typical wet food: Excellent.

Turkey and duck edges just ahead of the chicken, and the two match each other pillar for pillar.

What's in it

Freshly prepared turkey41%Weighed fresh, with its water.
Duck20%The second bird.
Sweet potatoes, pumpkin4%
Kale2%
Cranberries, potatoes, carrots
Vitamins and chelated mineralsNamed, no doses printed.
Salmon oil0.5%The omega 3 source, and the fish on the label.
Golden rod, nettles, aniseed, rosehips, marigold petals, cleavers
Kelp, alfalfa, milk thistle, dandelion root, burdock root, celery seedsCharacter in the bowl, at trace level.

No calcium figure on the label, so a large breed growth plan has nothing to check.

Named ingredients

Freshly Prepared Turkey (41%); Duck (20%); Sweet Potatoes (4%) Pumpkin; Kale (2%); Cranberries; Potatoes; Carrots; Vitamins & Chelated Minerals; Salmon Oil (0.5%) Herbs & botanicals: Golden Rod, Nettles, Aniseed, Rosehips, Marigold Petals, Cleavers, Kelp, Alfalfa, Milk Thistle, Dandelion Root, Burdock Root, Celery Seeds.

Against the range

Meat: Turkey 41%, duck 20%; The chicken tin is fresh chicken only, 67%
Vegetables: Sweet potato, pumpkin, kale, cranberries, potatoes, carrots; Just potatoes and carrots in the chicken
Protein, dry matter: 52.4%; 53.0% in the chicken
Energy: 95 kcal per 100g; 91 in the chicken

A useful change of taste for a puppy tired of chicken, though two birds rule it out for a pup avoiding poultry.

Two wet puppy tins, both led by fresh meat and both short behind it. Carbohydrate is estimated at 1.8% as fed in each, and protein converts to more than half the dry matter. Salmon oil runs through both, and both close on a herb blend named one plant at a time.

What varies is the meat and the vegetables. The chicken tin keeps to one animal with a little potato and carrot. The turkey and duck tin brings two birds plus sweet potato, pumpkin, kale and cranberries. Neither label doses its vitamins and chelated minerals.

Nutritional analysis

Declared analysis

Energy

95 kcal/100g

Protein

11%

Fat

5.3%

Fibre

0.5%

Ash

2.4%

Moisture

79%

Dry weight

Protein

52.4%

Fat

25.2%

Fibre

2.4%

Ash

11.4%

Carbs

8.6%

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.

Added water

35.4%

Veg

15.3%

Oils

41%

Other

8.3%

Pricing & size