Natural Greatness Complete Wet Adult: Beef with Iberian Pork, Green Bean, Sweet Potato & Cranberry review

Four recipes here land in our Outstanding band, with the beef with Iberian pork a step behind in Good. The typical adult wet food reaches Excellent, so most of this range is a step clear of the better wet food on the shelf and not merely keeping up with it. What earns that is straightforward enough: named meat at high percentages, organs listed one by one, and next to nothing in the way of filler. The broth gets a printed figure instead of being written off as water. The lamb, the kangaroo and the Angus beef are barely separable at the head of the range, each with nutritional balance and transparency at Outstanding. The beef with Iberian pork is the outlier because its named meat share is lower and its fat much higher.

Ingredients, as declared: Beef meat (26%), Pork meat (20%, 4% Iberian pork heart), Broth, Salmon oil (2%), Green beans (2%), Sweet potato, Minerals, Cranberries.

The house style repeats across most of the range. A named animal at 65%, described down to the organs it takes in, then that animal's own broth at between 28.4% and 28.8%. After that a fruit or vegetable at 3% and a second at 2%, minerals at 1% and a drop of salmon oil. Very little is left over for anything else, and not one entry on those labels is a category term.

Organ meat is the quiet strength. Heart, liver and lungs are named inside the meat percentage on the beef, lamb and kangaroo cans. Nothing a dog eats packs more nutrients into a mouthful than liver. Printing it, where a vague meat phrase would have done, tells you the maker is comfortable with what went in.

Two recipes step outside that pattern and both are worth reading closely. The rabbit can is titled for rabbit and venison, but chicken sits at 26% behind rabbit at 35%, with deer meat at 4%, so it is a three meat recipe with a two meat name. The beef with Iberian pork is a genuine pairing at 26% and 20%, with 4% of the can being Iberian pork heart, and it is the one recipe the maker also lists for puppies.

Carbohydrate is barely present anywhere. The kangaroo converts to 8.0% of dry matter and the rabbit to 5.2%, while the beef and lamb cans reach 18.0% and 18.4% against 15.8% for a typical adult wet food. The only starch named on any label is the sweet potato in the beef with Iberian pork. Those middling figures are mostly what is left over in the sum, not a bag of filler.

The fruit and vegetable entries carry percentages. That is unusual, and useful. They run mushrooms and ginger, papaya and cranberries, pineapple and mango, carrot and olives, green beans and cranberry again. Each sits at 3% or 2%, and the amount is right there on the label. Rosemary, spirulina and amaranth seeds appear at trace level and are not why you would choose one can over another.

The added panels are not consistent across the range. The Angus beef and the lamb keep to vitamin D3, zinc, manganese and iodine, the lamb without the vitamin E the beef carries. The beef with Iberian pork and the rabbit add vitamin A, iron and copper. No panel is recorded at all for the kangaroo. Everything that is printed carries a dose beside it.

Beef at 26% with pork at 20%, of which 4% of the can is Iberian pork heart. Alongside it, green beans at 2%, sweet potato, cranberries and salmon oil at 2%, the heaviest oil dose in the range. It is the fattiest recipe here at 40.0% of dry matter and the only one the maker also lists for puppies.

Every recipe here comes in a 400 g can.

As a guide, a 15kg adult dog in moderate condition needs about 840 kcal a day, on the standard maintenance estimate of 110 × bodyweight^0.75. That comes to between 696 and 906 grams a day depending on which recipe you feed. Every label declares its own calories, so those weights are the maker's own figures, not ours.