My Pet Says MyPetSays Grain Free: Tuna with Salmon, Sweet Potato & Broccoli review

We are holding this range without a rating, and the reason is one missing label rather than anything the food has done. Nothing at all is declared on the turkey recipe, so what fills that bag stays hidden. Grading ten labels and guessing at the eleventh would not be honest. Everything else here is unusually open, down to the split between fresh and dried meat on every recipe, so the day that turkey list appears the picture completes itself quickly.

Ingredients, as declared: Tuna & Salmon 50% (including Freshly Prepared Tuna 26%, Dried Salmon 19%, Salmon Oil 3% & Salmon Stock 2%), Sweet Potato (24%), Potato, Peas (9%), Linseed, Beet Pulp, Minerals, Vitamins, Omega 3 Supplement, Vegetable Stock, Broccoli (0.3%), FOS (96 mg/kg), MOS (24 mg/kg). Vitamins: Vitamin A 15,000 IU, Vitamin D3 2,000 IU, Vitamin E 95 IU. Trace Elements: Zinc (Zinc Sulphate Monohydrate) 50mg, Iron (Iron (II) Sulphate Monohydrate) 50mg, Manganese (Manganous Sulphate Monohydrate) 35mg, Copper (Copper (II) Sulphate Pentahydrate) 12mg, Iodine (Calcium Iodate) Anhydrous) 1mg.

Every published recipe declares 50% of its content as one meat family, and the chicken goes further at 55%. The print underneath that headline is the part worth reading. Fresh meat is mostly water by weight and the oven removes it. Much of the finished protein therefore comes from the dried entry. The dried shares here are substantial, from 12% on the salmon and trout up to 21% on the chicken. The analysis follows through, with protein converting to between 27.2% and 31.5% of dry matter across the family.

On the plant side the constant is sweet potato, between 21.5% and 27% depending on the flavour. Potato and peas sit behind it, and no grain appears anywhere. Carbohydrate converts to between 41.8% and 48.8% of dry matter. That leaves the meatier recipes comfortably under the 46.2% typical of an adult dry food, with the leanest of the fish recipes a little above it.

Beet pulp handles the fibre. The omega 3 from linseed is the plant version. Two prebiotics sit alongside with their doses printed, FOS at 96 mg/kg and MOS at 24 mg/kg on most labels. The fish recipes add oils of their own, trout oil at 4.5% behind the haddock and salmon oil at 3% behind the tuna, which is where the marine omegas come from in those bags.

Sulphates carry the trace minerals here, the everyday form in place of chelates. Each is dosed on the label, with zinc and iron at 50 mg and manganese at 35 mg per kilo on most recipes. The vitamin entries are printed with their figures too, not hidden behind a heading.

The ingredient each bag takes its name from is almost always a trace: carrot below 0.1% on the beef, mint at 0.2% on the lamb, broccoli at 0.3% on the tuna. Read them as the flourish rather than the substance. The substance is the declared meat share, which is exactly where the weight of a recipe belongs.

Tuna and salmon make up 50%: 26% freshly prepared tuna with 19% dried salmon, 3% salmon oil and a 2% salmon stock. At 10% it holds the lowest fat figure in the family and the lowest energy of the fish recipes at 352 kcal per 100g, with broccoli at 0.3% for the name.

Per kilo the range spans £4.13 on the salmon and trout to £6.00 on the venison, with the beef at £5.10 and the haddock at £5.57. Bags come in 6kg, 12kg and 24kg, with 15kg and 30kg working dog packs on several flavours.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition eating around 840 kcal a day (110 × bodyweight^0.75, the standard maintenance estimate) needs roughly 225 to 248 grams of this food. That works out at between £0.96 and £1.38 a day depending on the flavour. The label's own table asks 145 to 245 grams for a dog between 10kg and 20kg. Let the waistline settle any difference.