More Heart Support Wet Food review

This one finishes in our Excellent band. The typical adult wet recipe reaches Excellent as well, since we score the category highly. What puts distance between this label and that middle mark is the analysis as much as the shopping list: protein converts to 51.0% of dry matter and carbohydrate to an estimated 7.0%. The pillars follow suit: nutritional balance and transparency both Outstanding, protein and processing Excellent.

Ingredients, as declared: 60% Turkey (composed of Turkey Hearts, Turkey Meat, Turkey Liver, Turkey Neck), Turkey Broth (25%), Potato (3%), Carrots (3%), Pumpkin (2%), Kale (2%), Minerals (1%), Linseed Oil (0.5%), Cranberries (0.1%), Parsley (0.1%), Dandelion (0.1%), Yeast (0.1%), Spirulina (0.1%)

Turkey at 60% is opened up on the label into hearts, meat, liver and neck, which is rare candour for a wet recipe. Turkey is easy to digest and lighter than chicken. The organ meats alongside it bring B vitamins with copper and iron, a nutrient density muscle meat on its own does not. Protein converts to 51.0% of dry matter, a genuinely meaty reading.

Turkey broth at 25% is tied to its animal and given a percentage, so every animal entry on this label traces back to one bird. That is what makes the single-animal claim safe to lean on here, and it is why a household running an exclusion plan can read this list once and be done.

Short and named throughout, the plant side runs potato at 3%, carrots at 3%, pumpkin at 2% and kale at 2%. Cereal appears nowhere. The carbohydrate estimate comes in at 7.0% of dry matter where adult wet food usually reads 15.8%, so the turkey is carrying almost all of the energy.

Cranberries, parsley, dandelion, yeast and spirulina each sit at 0.1%, with linseed oil at 0.5%. The linseed is doing the most visible job of the group, since it is the label's plant source of omega-3, while the rest are flavour and flourish at those levels rather than working doses.

Fat converts to 27.0% of dry matter, which is a comfortable richness for a wet recipe and part of why the analysis reads so well. The added panel is short and fully dosed: vitamin D3 at 200 I.E., zinc at 25 mg, manganese at 1.4 mg, iodine at 0.75 mg and copper at 0.5 mg, each per kilogram of food. An antioxidants heading sits over them, and it does not really describe them.

£8.47 a kilo, sold in one 400g size.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition works out at about £7.77 a day, or roughly 917 grams, assuming around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). For a dog of that weight the label itself suggests 400 to 800 grams a day.