Luna & Me Puppy Power: With Lamb review

Our Outstanding band holds all four of these, and the typical raw puppy food is in there too, which says how strong the raw field is rather than how ordinary these recipes are. The strength up front is what stands out. Protein and processing and nutritional balance read Outstanding on all four, transparency is Excellent on three and Good on the lamb, and barely anything separates the four. The chicken versions edge ahead on our reading, but not by enough to steer a decision better made on the animal your puppy gets along with.

Ingredients, as declared: 90% Meat: (35% Lamb - Heart, Liver, Kidney), Chicken Breast, Chicken Thigh, Chicken Bone, Vegetables & Fruits: Carrot, Butternut Squash, Apple, Kale, Spinach, Superfoods & Oils: Wheatgrass, Chia Seeds, Wheat Germ Oil, Coconut Oil, Nutritional Yeast, Goji Berry, Bilberry, Green-Lipped Mussel, Salmon Oil, Chicory Root, Spirulina, Kelp

The meat share is 90% here, a step up from the brand's adult recipes, and the room it takes comes off the vegetable and fruit side. For a growing dog that concentration is useful, because a smaller volume of food carries the protein and the calcium a young skeleton is asking for.

Bone is counted inside the meat figure on every recipe, and it is where the calcium comes from: between 1.4% and 1.56% of dry matter across the four. That is the sort of level you want during growth, and it arrives ground into the mix, with no mineral added afterwards.

Organ meat is in all four and generously so. The chicken recipes take liver, heart and kidney from beef, and the beef recipe uses its own. The lamb recipe is built the other way round, with the lamb arriving entirely as organs and chicken bringing the muscle and the bone. Organs carry the vitamins and trace minerals that a recipe without an added premix has to find somewhere.

Green lipped mussel appears in every recipe here and not in the brand's adult range, which is sensible thinking for a growing joint. It sits in the superfood tail without a printed percentage, so read it as a helpful lean rather than a measured dose, and note that it is shellfish.

Salmon oil, wheat germ oil, chia and kelp look after the fats and the trace elements between them, and the brand states that no supplements are needed alongside this range. No printed additive panel exists to check that against, so the ingredient list is what you have, and every entry on it is named.

Energy travels a fair distance between the recipes, from 162 kcal per 100g on the beef to 223 on the lamb. Fat travels with it: the beef converts to 29.8% of dry matter, the lamb to 49.5%. On a puppy that matters more than it would on a settled adult. Weigh the portion out.

Lamb at 35% arrives entirely as heart, liver and kidney. Chicken breast, thigh and bone complete the 90%. It is much the richest of the four at 223 kcal per 100g, fat converting to 49.5% of dry matter. Portions are therefore the smallest here, and it suits a busy, fast growing puppy.

Patties come six to a 600g pack, and the chicken recipe is also boxed as 750g of mince, with a 15kg case of twenty boxes for a household that plans ahead. Per kilo, the chicken mince is £4.93, the chicken patties £6.58, and the beef and the lamb patties £6.92 each.

The label's own guidance is age based and steps down as the puppy grows, while its weight table puts a 10kg puppy at 500 to 600 grams a day.