More Liver Support Wet Food review

The Excellent band holds this one. The typical adult recipe reaches Excellent too, because we score wet food well as a whole. This label earns its place there by how much it declares: a single animal, its organs named one by one, and a percentage against nearly every line on the pack. Its protein and processing reading is Excellent, with nutritional balance and transparency both Outstanding.

Ingredients, as declared: 60% Lamb (Composed of Lamb Hearts, Lamb Meat, Lamb Liver, Lamb Lung, Lamb Tripe), Lamb Broth (25%), Potato (7%), Carrots (3%), Beetroot (2%), Kale (1%), Minerals (1%), Milk Thistle (0.2%), Dandelion (0.1%), Ginger (0.1%), Turmeric (0.1%)

Lamb at 60% is spelled out as hearts, meat, liver, lung and tripe, which is a proper nose to tail mix rather than a muscle-meat recipe with a garnish. Few things a dog eats are as nutrient-dense as liver, rich in B12, vitamin A and iron, and tripe brings both digestibility and a smell that most dogs find irresistible. Protein converts to 42.4% of dry matter.

Lamb broth at 25% is named to its animal and carries its own percentage, so the whole animal side of this recipe comes from one species. That is what makes the single-animal reading dependable here, and not an assumption.

The vegetables are short and specific: potato at 7%, carrots at 3%, beetroot at 2% and kale at 1%. Carbohydrate converts to an estimated 20.0% of dry matter, a shade above the 15.8% typical for adult wet food. The potato is doing slightly more of the work than a wet recipe usually asks of it.

Milk thistle at 0.2% leads the botanical group, with dandelion, ginger and turmeric at 0.1% each. Milk thistle is the traditional choice for a recipe with liver on its mind. Read it honestly and at this share it is a considered flourish, not a therapeutic dose.

There is no added oil on this list at all, and yet fat comes in at 6.7% as fed, or 26.8% of dry matter. That is the lamb and its organs doing the work, which is a nicer way to reach a rich analysis than pouring something in at the end. Moisture is declared at 75%, on the drier side for a wet recipe, which is part of why the energy figure sits where it does.

The added panel is short and dosed: vitamin D3 at 200 I.E., zinc at 25 mg, manganese at 1.4 mg and iodine at 0.75 mg, each per kilogram of food. Copper is not on it, which is a thoughtful omission on a recipe built around liver, and the lamb liver in the mix carries copper of its own in any case.

In a single 400g size, at £8.47 a kilo.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition comes out at roughly £6.06 a day, or about 716 grams, assuming around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). The label's table puts a dog of that weight at 400 to 800 grams a day.