More Digestion Wet Food review

Our Excellent band takes this one in comfortably. Wet food does well on our scoring, and the middle of the adult wet shelf is itself an Excellent band food. This recipe clears that middle mark. Protein and processing reads Excellent while nutritional balance and transparency both read Outstanding, which is what a label written in real ingredients with real percentages tends to earn.

Ingredients, as declared: Pork 60%, Broth 29%, Potato 5%, Spinach 2%, Apple 2%, Minerals 1%, Linseed Oil 0.5%, Yucca 0.1%, Beetroot 0.1%, Goldenrod 0.1%, Ginger 0.1%, Green Lipped Mussel 0.1%

One animal carries this recipe, pork at 60%, and it is a sensible choice. Pork is highly palatable and sits well with most dogs, and because British dog food leans so heavily on chicken and beef, plenty of dogs reach adulthood having never eaten it. Protein converts to 45.7% of dry matter, which is a properly meat-led reading for a wet recipe.

The broth at 29% carries a percentage of its own and is not slipped in as water. We like to see that. What it does not do is name its animal. The obvious reading is pork broth, but the label stops short of saying so, and a household excluding one animal precisely will want to know that.

Small and specific is how the plant side reads: potato at 5%, spinach at 2% and apple at 2%, with beetroot at the trace end. Cereal appears nowhere on this label. Carbohydrate converts to an estimated 18.2% of dry matter against the 15.8% typical for adult wet food, so the starch is present without taking over.

Then come the extras the name leans on. Yucca, ginger, goldenrod and green lipped mussel each appear at 0.1%, with linseed oil at 0.5% bringing plant-source omega-3. At those levels they are a friendly nod towards digestion rather than a measured programme, and the real digestive work is being done by a short recipe built on one meat.

The added panel is short, and a figure sits against every entry. Vitamin D3 comes at 200 I.E., zinc at 25 mg, manganese at 1.4 mg and copper at 0.5 mg, each given per kilogram of food. The label files them under an antioxidants heading, which is not quite what they are, but the numbers themselves are printed and plenty of wet labels never get that far.

£8.47 a kilo, in a single 400g size.

As a guide, feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at around £6.84 a day, or roughly 808 grams, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The label's own guide for a dog that size is 400 to 800 grams a day.