My Pet Says Naturals Adult: Fish & Rice review

All three recipes come out in our Good band, level with the dry adult median. It is construction that holds them there, with nothing troubling behind it. The declared meat share of 30% to 34% is roughly half what a meat first kibble carries, and carbohydrate converts to between 53.2% and 58.7% of dry matter against 46.2% for the category. Read it for what it actually is, an everyday rice based food with the animal named, the analysis moderate and every extra printed with a figure beside it. On those terms it does what it sets out to.

Ingredients, as declared: Fish 30% (Including Dried White Fish 15%, Freshly Prepared White Fish 11%, Salmon Gravy 2% & Salmon Oil 2%), White Rice (23%), Brown Rice (20%), Barley (15%), Linseed, Peas, Alfalfa, Sunflower Oil, Vegetable Stock, Minerals, Vitamins, Seaweed, Omega 3 Supplement, FOS (960mg/kg), Chicory Extract (0.04%), Yucca Extract (190 mg/kg), Dandelion. Vitamins: Vitamin A 14423 IU, Vitamin D3 2000 IU, Vitamin E 149mg. Trace Elements: Zinc (Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate) 48mg, Iron (Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 48mg, Manganese (Manganous Sulphate Monohydrate) 34mg, Copper (Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 12mg, Iodine (Calcium Iodate Anhydrous) 0.96mg.

The meat is named and split on all three labels. Lamb is declared at 34%, made up of 25% dried, 4% freshly prepared, 3% lamb fat and 2% gravy, while the turkey and the fish both come to 30%. The unusual and rather helpful part is that the dried share leads in every recipe. Water is long gone from dried meat, and it delivers considerably more protein to the finished kibble than the same weight of fresh would.

Rice does most of the plant work. The fish recipe pairs 23% white rice with 20% brown and 15% barley, the lamb runs 23% brown, 16% barley and 15% white, and the turkey uses 22% of each rice with 19% oats. These are digestible cereals, not fillers of last resort, but they do add up. The carbohydrate estimate lands between 53.2% and 58.7% of dry matter, above the 46.2% typical for adult dry food, and protein converts to between 21.7% and 25.0%.

The finishing set is identical across the range and it has been thought about. FOS at 960 mg/kg and chicory extract both feed gut bacteria in the large intestine. Chicory also brings a little natural sweetness with it, which never hurts a fussy eater. Yucca extract at 190 mg/kg is an old hand in dog food, used for taking the edge off what happens in the garden afterwards. Seaweed, alfalfa and dandelion bring trace minerals along. Linseed supplies plant omega 3 in each recipe.

Every trace mineral is printed out: zinc at 48 mg, iron at 48 mg and manganese at 34 mg per kilo across all three, with iodine at 0.96 mg. These are sulphates, the everyday form, and not the more readily absorbed chelates. Vitamin E is declared at 149mg, a generous entry at this level of food.

Calcium varies a good deal between the three, from 1.41% of dry matter in the turkey up to 2.5% in the lamb, both ends inside adult territory but a long way apart. Two other things set the fish recipe apart. It is the only one to bring in peas and sunflower oil, and the only one whose animal side is not a single species, since white fish sits alongside salmon gravy and salmon oil.

Fish at 30%, with 15% dried white fish leading 11% freshly prepared, plus salmon gravy and salmon oil at 2% each. It is the gentlest recipe on protein at 20% and the highest on carbohydrate, estimated at 54%. No other recipe here includes peas and sunflower oil. Energy is 353 kcal per 100g, and the salmon oil makes it the one recipe here whose omega 3 comes partly from a marine source.

£5.60 a kilo for the lamb and the turkey and £6.25 for the fish, sold in 10kg and 20kg bags.

The yardstick is about 840 kcal a day for a 15kg adult in moderate condition (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate). That is 238 to 243 grams a day, or £1.35 to £1.49 depending on the recipe. The labels themselves ask for between 150 and 255 grams a day for a 10kg to 20kg dog. Where the two differ, go by your dog's shape.