More Kidney Support Wet Food review

This one settles in our Excellent band. The category scores well with us and the typical adult recipe reaches the same band, so the interesting part is where this label gains ground and where it gives some back. Nutritional balance reads Outstanding on the strength of the analysis. Protein and processing and transparency both read Excellent, held back from more by a broth described only as fish and by an added panel that leaves one vitamin without a number. Two named fish species on a wet label is still more than the shelf usually offers.

Ingredients, as declared: 62% Fish (composed of 31% Salmon, 31% Trout), Fish Broth (25%), Potato (7%), Carrots (3%), Kale (1%), Minerals (1%), Linseed Oil (0.5%), Coriander (0.1%), Hawthorn (0.1%), Watercress (0.1%)

The fish comes to 62%, split evenly at 31% salmon and 31% trout. Naming two species and giving each its own percentage is unusual on a wet label, where a general fish or white fish description is the norm. It is exactly the detail a household with an avoidance list needs. Protein converts to 44.5% of dry matter and fat to 26.8%, a rich, oily reading that suits the fish.

Fish broth at 25% gets a percentage but not a species. The likely answer is salmon, trout or both, and the label leaves it open, which is the one place this ingredient list stops short of the standard it sets elsewhere.

Behind the fish, the plants are few and named: potato at 7%, carrots at 3% and kale at 1%. Carbohydrate converts to an estimated 13.3% of dry matter, a little under the 15.8% typical for adult wet food, so the starch here is a supporting player.

Coriander, hawthorn and watercress sit at 0.1% each, with linseed oil at 0.5% adding plant omega-3 on top of what the oily fish already brings. These are the herbs the name gestures at, and at trace level that is what they are: a nod to the theme, not a treatment.

That theme deserves a straight answer. A therapeutic renal diet is built around restricted phosphorus and carefully controlled protein, and this label declares neither, so read the name as kidney-friendly intent rather than a clinical claim. For a healthy dog, none of that takes anything away: what you are buying is a well-built fish dinner with both species on the label.

The added panel is mostly dosed, with zinc at 25 mg, manganese at 1.4 mg, iodine at 0.75 mg and copper at 2 mg, each per kilogram of food. Vitamin A is listed alongside them with no figure attached, which is the small gap in an otherwise well-declared list.

£9.04 a kilo, in a 375g size.

As a guide, feeding a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition comes to about £6.29 a day, which is roughly 695 grams, assuming about 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The guide printed on the label for that weight runs from 375 to 750 grams a day.